- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 2, 2021
Shapiro Campaign for Governor Launched on Shaky Ground
Shapiro Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia PennEast [Editor’s Note: Garland Thompson looks at the Shapiro campaign for governor of Pennsylvania and finds it is built on shaky ground if the attack on Mariner East is all there is.]Methane Madness Takes Over As EPA Restores Reason to Regulation
David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … … The EPA is reversing a last minute political decision by President Obama to punish oil and gas production with duplicative methane regulation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 14, 2020
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Anti-Pipeline Leader Admits True Motivation for Activism
In the echo chamber of “Keep It In the Ground” activism, the messaging rarely reflects the true goals behind the movement: to delay, weaken and eventually stop all oil and natural gas development and related infrastructure like pipelines.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 11, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – July 11, 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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- June 11, 2020
Colorado Rising Calls It Quits On New Ballot Initiatives
“Keep It In The Ground” activist group Colorado Rising recently announced that it is abandoning its campaign to put costly new anti-oil and natural gas initiatives up for a vote in November after admitting it couldn’t gather enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 19, 2019
Keep It in the Ground? Well, This Is What to Expect, Then.
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Keep it in the ground say fractivists and other environmental extremists, but we’ve just gotten a glimpse of that future and it’s anything but pretty.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 28, 2019
Extinction Rebellion Funded by Rich Trust-Funders and Special Interests
Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Extinction Rebellion lunatics and their activities are funded by tax-exempt donations from three spoiled trust-funders and special interest groups.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 3, 2019
Extinction Rebellion Suggests Climate Extremism Has Hit Peak Lunacy
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Extinction Rebellion is a climate extremist group focused principally on the UK.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 16, 2019
EV Subsidies, Like Most Green Scams, Are “Robin-Hood-in-Reverse Policy”
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) EV subsidies are disgusting because they principally benefit well-off trendy folks who can well afford electric vehicles without help from ordinary taxpayers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 30, 2019
Will the Media Fall for KIITG Stunts Again?
If you show up to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission hearings this week and think you‘re having déjà vu of the very same arguments from the very same small gathering of anti-energy activists from the May and June COGCC hearings, you’d be right.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 3, 2019
Divestment Scams Worry Public Pension Fund Managers in CA and NY
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Divestment threatens public pensions funds that are underfunded, trying to catch up and worried disinvestment is going to destroy any chance of doing it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2019
So, Pipelines Are Important to Many Folks It Turns Out
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Pipelines do enjoy broad support. The reaction of several important groups to the threat of Michigan’s Governor to shut down a critical one proves it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 17, 2019
Denver Trendies Stick It to Everyone in Rural Colorado with ZEV Mandate
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) The great divide in America these days is urban vs.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2019
Pipeline Opponents Are Letting the Nonexistent Crowd Out the Great
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Pipeline opponents are some of the most irrational people.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 28, 2019
Fractivist Governor Cuomo Takes Two Bites Out of the Big Apple
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Fractivist Governor Cuomo tales two big bites of the Big Apple that continues to elect this corrupt, wannabe Empire State Emperor rather than just Governor.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 17, 2019
EV Owners Enjoy Privileges at the Expense of Taxpayers
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) EV owners are grabbing Federal and State tax dollars so wealthier folks can drive politically correct cars that run mostly on natural gas, but it’s dumb.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 7, 2019
2020 Dems Take Extreme Positions on Oil & Gas Development
With the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination getting more crowded every week, gaining the financial favor of deep-pocketed fringe activists could make a difference for candidates hoping to escape the first round of Democratic tryouts.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 25, 2019
Lawmakers Fiddle on Enbridge Line 5 Upgrade As Michigan Needs Pipes
Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Michigan lawmakers are fiddling while an important pipeline project, the Enbridge Line 5 Upgrade, goes wanting.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 13, 2019
Enough of This Shallow No Plastics Virtue Signaling!
Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) The shallow “no plastics” movement seems quite popular recently, despite the lack of facts to justify it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 27, 2019
Fallout from Keep It in the Ground Tests Falls on New York Supporters
Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) The Con Ed moratorium on new gas connections is creating fallout from the Keep It in the Ground movement that normally supportive New Yorkers don’t like.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 13, 2019
Spread the Wealth Among the Wealthy: The Story of the Taycan
Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) Porsche’s new electric vehicle, the Taycan, is one only the wealthy can afford, yet taxpayers will be forced to foot the subsidy bill!New York Continues to Get Hammered By the “Keep It In the Ground” Anti-Pipeline Agenda
A protest over the weekend is just the latest in a series of attempts by “Keep It In the Ground” (KIITG) activists and New York Gov.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 15, 2019