- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2021
Peaking Plants Policy Is Trending Toward Peak Nonsense
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Peaking plants used in New York City are now in the gun sights of climate fanatics but shutting them all down is foolhardy nonsense.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 16, 2021
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2021
Battery Costs in the Billions About to Be Tacked Onto NY Electric Bills
... … …[Editor’s Note: New Yorkers are about to see already high electricity bills go even higher thanks to Governor Cuomo’s battery storage plans.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 13, 2021
Green New Deal Ideologies, Fantasies and Realities
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The incoming Biden Administration is going whole hog with the Green New Deal and it promises to be an unmitigated disaster awaiting.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 11, 2021
Free Speech Is Under Major Assault by Big Tech Fascists
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The events of this weekend represent a frightening attack on free speech by a Big Tech oligarchy that is increasingly fascist in character.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 9, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 9, 2021
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 7, 2021
Climate Policy or Climate Injustice (Or Just Climate TomFoolery?)
David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … … [Editor’s Note: Climate policy, as envisioned by global tax and spenders, essentially transfers wealth from the poor to already wealthy elites.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 6, 2021
RGGI Proceeds, Not the Results, Seem to Be Goal
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: RGGI proceeds for pet Cuomo causes, rather than greenhouse gas reductions, seems to be the primary purpose of the entire program.]Natural Gas Bans Meeting Resistance from Reality
... … …[Editor’s Note: Natural gas bans have been enacted by several California communities but are now colliding with the realities of energy affordability.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 4, 2021
Climate Plan Pushed by Cuomo Will Yield Impacts Too Small to Measure
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act will achieve nothing of measurable significance regarding global warming.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 2, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 2, 2021
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 31, 2020
Deep Decarbonization or Deep Do-Do for New Yorkers?
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Deep decarbonization is, supposedly, the goal and political will is the means but it all sounds like more like “deep do-do” for New Yorkers.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 29, 2020
Emissions Data and Science Being Totally Distorted by New York DEC
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Andrew Cuomo’s DEC is distorting and manipulating greenhouse gas emissions data to fit its goals and objectives, abandoning science.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 26, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – December 26, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 24, 2020
China Eco-Imperialism with Energy Threatens Future of All Africans
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: China is exploiting the global warming policies of politically correct nations to put African nations under its imperialist thumb.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 22, 2020
North Face Does A Politically Correct, But Stupid, Face Plant
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: North Face imagines its customers are idiots and wanted to look like a green hero to them, causing it instead to do a face plant in the snow.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 22, 2020
Transportation and Climate Initiative Is A Fool’s Errand for New England
... … … [Editor’s Note: New England, once the land of common sense is now pursuing a Transportation and Climate Initiative that is a fool’s errand by any standard.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 21, 2020
WSJ “News” on Green Energy Is Pure Puffery Compared to Editorial
Roger DonwayContributor, MasterResource … … [Editor’s Note: Roger Downey focuses on a problem long known to careful readers of the Wall Street Journal or WSJ; its news pages are shallow claptrap when it comes to “green energy.”]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 17, 2020
CO2 Levels Aren’t Necessarily Bad News, But Saying So Is
David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … … [Editor’s Note: CO2 levels are panned and hyped as dangerous air pollution, but there’s another side to that argument; there is good news being ignored.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 16, 2020
Wolf Called Out on “Blatant Disregard for the Legislature”
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s arrogant but hapless trust-funder Governor is shunting aside the state legislature in his quest to impose RGGI.European Green New Deal Is As Phony As It Comes
Tom ReynoldsCo-Founder of Dryden Safe Energy Coalition … … [Editor’s Note: Supposed European Green New Deal successes are at least partly, and probably mostly, attributable to natural gas, a fact largely buried.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 7, 2020
Gas Ban Economics 101: A Lesson in Energy Policy and What Not to Do
Kenneth W. CostelloRegulatory Economist/Independent Consultant … … [Editor’s Note: Ken Costello carefully explains why gas bans in nutty places such as Berkeley make absolutely no economic sense whatsoever.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 5, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – December 5, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 4, 2020
CLCPA Warning: Wind Power Economics Seem Wacky
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Andrew Cuomo’s c legislation seems to rely upon some really wacky wind power economics that don’t accord with reality.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 2, 2020
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Related to Energy Fall in US But Rise in China
... … … [Editor’s Note: The U.S. is actually reducing CO2 emissions related to energy as China goes precisely in the opposite direction with increases.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 2, 2020
Apocalypse Never – The Confessions of A Thinking Environmentalist
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Michael Shellenberger is the author of Apocalypse Never, a wonderful takedown of green eggs and scam schemes and schemers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 1, 2020
RGGI Being Promoted with Climate Misinformation and Scare Tactics
Gregory WrightstoneGeologist and author of “Inconvenient Facts” .. … [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is pushing a new carbon tax called RGGI onto homeowners and businesses by using fear and misinformation.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 1, 2020
Electric Vehicle Mandate in UK Really About Controlling All of Us
... … … [Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson has banned fracking and aims to force Brits into the electric vehicle they can’t afford, which means pushing them into cities.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 27, 2020
China Does Renewables Head Fake: Builds Energy Reserves with WuFlu
... … … [Editor’s Note: China let its virus loose upon the world and is now using it to build energy reserves, while pretending to be a renewables leader.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 25, 2020
Methane Leaks Getting Sniffed Out with New Software!
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Great news! New technology in the form of software promises to help identify sources of methane leaks and continue their reduction.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 20, 2020
Net-Zero New England Only Possible with Natural Gas!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Net-Zero New England is the goal and natural gas is the solution according to Obama’s former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s team.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 17, 2020
AREGCBA Likely to Create More NY Refugees: Climate Refugees
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … AREGCBA is nothing short of a climate refugee creator, the environmental impact from the wind turbines and solar panels will be staggering.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 14, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 14, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.Energy Efficiency Has Its Limits: No Frost Is No Gain
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Roger Caiazza talks about energy efficiency and how you can tell if your house needs improvement; it’s all about the frost on the roof.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 13, 2020
Talen Energy Corporatists Feed the Crocodile Hoping to Be Eaten Last
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Talen Energy has sold out to the Sierra Club in an attempt to feed the extremist crocodile knowing consumers will pay for the error.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 12, 2020
Lithium Batteries Ain’t No Solution If You’re Worried About Pollution
... … … [Editor’s Note: Lithium batteries are at the heart of renewable energy storage plans but they are dirty, dangerous and pollute far more than fracking.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 11, 2020
Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Decline Again: Thank Fracking!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy-related CO2 emissions have declined yet again, according to the EIA, and natural gas used for electricity is still the primary reason.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 10, 2020
RGGI Carbon Tax on Pennsylvanians Being Pushed by Wolf’s DEP
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf has his nose up in the air again as tells Pennsylvanians RGGI and a 50% increase in electric rates will be good for them!]Tom Wolf Wants Pennsylvania in RGGI and Higher Electric Bills
... … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf arrogantly demands Pennsylvania join RGGI to pay 50% higher electric bills like the rest of the Northeast states in the suicide pact.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 7, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 7, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 6, 2020
Wind Power Trap Threatens to Make the UK the New California
... … … Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson, who rejected fracking, now wants to take the United Kingdom right into the wind power trap just like the idiots in California.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 3, 2020
Medicine Hat Swallows Bitter Solar Pill While Trying to Grin and Bear It
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Medicine Hat, Alberta, threw a cool $12 million into a solar facility that still cannot compete with natural gas; it’s bitter medicine.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
Biden’s Plans Regarding Energy Are Simply Not Doable
... … … Editor’s Note: Biden’s plans to recreate the entire U.S. energy system beginning with electricity over the next 14 years will result in enormous costs.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
Biden/Harris Energy/Climate Plan Is Disaster in Progress
Sterling BurnettSenior Fellow, Energy and Environment, The Heartland Institute … … [Editor’s Note: The real Biden/Harris Energy/Climate Plan is far more dangerous than their equivocating political statements this October.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 29, 2020
California and New Jersey Buy EV Poison Pills from Biden
... … … Editor’s Note: EVs are PC in places such as California and New Jersey where Democrat governors are eager to buy into Joe Biden’s electric vehicle scheme.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 28, 2020
NYSEG Leads Lansing Into A Cold and Dark Never Never Land
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Lansing is the dying part of Planet Ithaca where no one can get the natural gas they need thanks to NYSEG and pipeline opponents.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 28, 2020
Fracking No Longer A Swear Word in Media As Biden Gets Pushback
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Something remarkable has happened thanks to Joe Biden, whose fracking debacle has gotten pushback and much deserved media attention.“Clean Energy Awards” Don’t Matter Near As Much As Fracking
Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The 76West competition has spent millions to promote and build clean energy in New York, but it still doesn’t matter near as much as fracking.Joe Biden, If Elected, Would Ruin America’s Energy System
... … … Editor’s Note: It’s unclear if Joe Biden has a clear idea about anything, but he certainly doesn’t understand energy or anything about how it’s produced.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 24, 2020
Biden Plans for Green New Deal Offer Devastating Future
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Joe Biden, while denying it, has proposed a Green New Deal that would be nothing less than disastrous for Americans and others.Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 24, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 23, 2020
Biden Plan Would Force Energy Prices Up, And That’s The Point
AmericanEnergy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden can’t make up his mind on much of anything but he clearly wants to raise energy prices one way or another on us all.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2020
RGGI Is A Really, Really Bad Deal for Pennsylvania
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Our buddy, Kevin Mooney, has written as good an article on RGGI as I’ve read and he illustrates what a really bad deal it is for PA!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 21, 2020
Green New Deal Unexpectedly Turns Into Kryptonite!
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Politicians are now rapidly running away from radical green agendas and fracking bans, as Bob Bradley explains in this insightful post.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 20, 2020
Carbon Free Energy Doesn’t Exist, Joe. Come on Man!
... … … Editor’s Note: There is no such thing as carbon free energy but politicians such as Joe Biden can’t grasp it and “green energy” advocates won’t even try.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Climate Justice They Say, But It’s All Just More Special Interest Politics
David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … … [Editor’s Note: Climate justice is no real thing; it’s but yet still another con designed to feed the needs of ravenous special interests from the swamp.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 15, 2020
Benton PUD (Public Utility District) Blows the Whistle on Wind Energy
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A public utility district established in the 1934 in rural Washington, the Benton PUD, blows the whistle on exactly what is wrong with wind.NoBurnBroome Illustrates Basic Energy Truth: There’s No Free Ride
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. NoBurnBroome opposes a Lithium-Ion battery recycling-incineration facility in Broome County and it’s proving something important.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 13, 2020