- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 29, 2022
New England Common Sense Replaced with Political Insanity
New England Common Sense Replaced with Political Insanity Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: New England, once the home of old-fashioned common sense, has become a demonstration of total political insanity as it imports LNG rather than build pipelines.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 19, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – November 19, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – November 19, 2022 Tom Shepstone Shepstone 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 15, 2022
New England Chooses to Die by Ice Rather Than Burn Gas
New England Chooses to Die by Ice Rather Than Burn Gas Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog….- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 3, 2022
Offshore Wind: Experimental and Extra Uneconomic Energy
Offshore Wind: Experimental and Extra Uneconomic Energy Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog….- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 28, 2022
New England Facing A Bleak Dark Energy Future?
New England Facing A Bleak Dark Energy Future? Allen Brooks Energy Securities Analyst, Publisher, Energy Musings … [Editor’s Note: New England, the politically correct corner of the United States, has emulated Europe’s energy policies and, as a direct result, faces possible energy disaster.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 22, 2022
RGGI Obsession Shows Wolf As Dangerous as Trudeau
RGGI Obsession Shows Wolf As Dangerous as Trudeau Gordon TombSenior Advisor, CO2 Coalition .. …. [Editor’s Note: Justin Trudeau, the spoiled brat totalitarian imposing his will on Canada, has his equal in Tom Wolf who has an obsession with imposing RGGI on Pennsylvanians.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 4, 2022
New England Paying the Price of Silly Political Correctness
LNG Export ... … … [Editor’s Note: Let there be no doubt; New England has painted itself into a corner with brushes of politically correct shades of green that have turned to red in drying.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 21, 2021
New Appellate Brief Argues Massachusetts AG Lawsuit Infringes Upon Free Speech
Last week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court was told that Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit against a major energy company should be thrown out for undermining free speech rights.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 1, 2021
TCI Stands for Total Complete Idiocy When It Comes to Energy
TCI … …[Editor’s Note: TCI, the Transportation Climate Initiative, is falling apart because reality has struck the Total Complete Idiocy this politically correct program represented.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 30, 2021
Warren Goes to War Over Natural Gas Prices She Helped Create!
Warren Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: There is no more demagogic person in the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 11, 2021
CEPP Will Cost Utilities $16 Billion and Accomplish Nothing
CEPP … …[Editor’s Note: The Clean Energy Performance Program or CEPP is yet another green energy hustle and will contribute little or nothing in the way of clean energy; just a con.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 20, 2021
Greenfield Blues: Fossil Fuels Are Still the Future
Greenfield Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. An article in the Greenfield Recorder (Massachusetts) provides insights into the shallow reasoning of fractivists, especially those of the extremist bent.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 5, 2021
Offshore Wind Is Off the Charts Political Nonsense
WeSo, global G ... … …[Editor’s Note: Offshore wind makes no economic or environmental sense whatsoever. It is pure politics intended merely to reward special interests.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 1, 2021
Extreme Weather Shows Need For Diversified Power Grid That Includes Natural Gas
Recent weather events like the winter storm in Texas serve as a stark reminder of the crucial role that natural gas plays in supporting the power grid.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 16, 2021
Court Urged to Throw Out Massachusetts AG’s Lawsuit and “Absurd” Claims
On Friday, a Massachusetts court heard arguments on why it should dismiss the state attorney general’s climate lawsuit against a major energy company.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 9, 2021
Upcoming Hearing Puts Spotlight On Massachusetts Attorney General’s Politically Motivated Climate Lawsuit
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s climate lawsuit faces yet another challenge since her investigation began more than four years ago, with a March 12 hearing putting the spotlight on the attorney general’s politically motivated case and extensive coordination with activist groups.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 8, 2021
David Ismay: The Oligarchy’s Man in Massachusetts
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. . … David Ismay, the Massachusetts “climate czar” working to “break the will” of seniors for climate politics is another gentry class shill.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 9, 2020
Grant to fund training for offshore wind workers
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has awarded $124,670 to VINCI VR, in partnership with Siemens Gamesa Energy, to develop virtual reality training for U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 28, 2020
In Ironic Twist, Mass. AG Shoots Down Municipal Fossil Fuel Ban
In an ironic twist of events, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey struck down a Boston suburb’s attempt to implement a fossil fuel ban last week after her office found that it conflicted with state regulations.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 24, 2020
Offshore Wind Could Have Major Adverse Impact on Commercial Fisheries
... … … [Editor’s Note: Offshore wind is hugely expensive compared to natural gas and could have major adverse impacts on commercial fisheries according to a government study.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2020
Massachusetts AG Files Amended Complaint, Drops Claim Featured in Failed New York Attorney General Case
On Friday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed an amended complaint in her lawsuit against ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving Massachusetts investors and consumers about climate change-related risks.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 8, 2020
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Mass. Attorney General Admits Intention to Ban Fossil Fuel Use
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey called on the state’s Department of Public Utilities to investigate “the future of the natural gas industry” in Massachusetts this week, alleging that the use of the fuel didn’t align with the state’s 2050 climate goals.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2020
Indian Point Situation – Even Worse Than I Thought!
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Something truly amazing has been revealed about Indian Point; the industrial sized renewable farms that are to replace it aren’t even making power for us!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 29, 2020
Reminder: Massachusetts Case Likely Faces Same Fate as New York
U.S. District Judge William Young issued an opinion today on his March decision to remand Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil to state court.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 17, 2020
In Hearing on Massachusetts’ Exxon Lawsuit, Echoes of Failed New York Case
A federal district court in Massachusetts remanded Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil back to state court today after a hearing over the proper jurisdiction for the case.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 11, 2020
Massachusetts utility to pay $53M fine for 2018 gas explosions
A Massachusetts utility had pleaded guilty to causing a series of natural gas explosions in 2018 that killed one person and damaged scores of homes north of Boston, Kallanish Energy reports The president of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, Mark Kempic, entered the plea this week in U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 28, 2020
Eversource buying Columbia Gas of Mass for $1.1B
The largest public utility in New England is paying $1.1 billion for a Massachusetts natural gas utility at fault for 2018 explosions and fires, and which was just told by federal regulators to exit the state.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 9, 2019
Weymouth Compressor Station Construction Has Begun!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Weymouth Compressor Station construction has begun! Appalachian shale gas will soon be feeding New England and the Canadian Maritimes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 4, 2019
ExxonMobil Moves Massachusetts AG’s “Political” Lawsuit to Federal Court
Citing the transparent political motives and national focus of Massachusetts Attorney General (MAAG) Maura Healey’s lawsuit, lawyers for ExxonMobil have moved the MAAG’s case to federal court, according to a filing from last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 4, 2019
Weymouth Win: Marcellus Gas Will Go North to the Canadian Maritimes!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The battle is all but over. The state has approved and FERC has finally issued the go-ahead to start construction on the Weymouth Compressor Station.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 24, 2019
Brookline, MA banning O&G pipes in new builds
Taking a cue from what’s happening in California, residents of Brookline, Massachusetts, last week voted to ban the installation of oil and gas pipes in new buildings, as well as in extensive renovations of existing buildings — the first such prohibition in Massachusetts.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 20, 2019
ExxonMobil Lambasts Massachusetts, New York Attorneys General for “Unconstitutional Conduct”
Recent developments in the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) lawsuit against ExxonMobil provide “further evidence of the coordinated, ongoing assault on ExxonMobil’s First Amendment rights,” by the NYAG and Massachusetts Attorney General (MAAG) Maura Healey, a letter filed by the company last Friday states.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 10, 2019
Our Energy Security Is Threatened by Unprincipled Politicians
Stephen HeinsEnergy Consultant“The Word Merchant” … California and Massachusetts offer proof positive our very energy security faces a clear and present danger danger from unprincipled politicians.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 2, 2019
Group forms to defend natgas against anti-fossil fuel groups
A group backed by anonymous donors launched a campaign Monday to promote the benefits of natural gas against what it called “radical” proposals like the Green New Deal that would phase out use of the fossil fuel, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
Trump administration upsets offshore wind plans
The Trump administration has ordered a major environmental review of the growing offshore wind industry – a review that some experts see as derailing the nation’s first major project and raises questions concerning future developments, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2019
Offshore Wind Is No Easy Sell and Carries A High Environmental Price
... … … Offshore wind projects along the East Coast are being regularly challenged successfully on environmental impact grounds, especially by fishermen.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 1, 2019
The Fractivist Mindset: “I’m Right, You’re Wrong and I Hate You”
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The fractivist mindset is a supremely arrogant one that admits no possibility of error, no chance compromise and nothing but pure antipathy toward others.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 22, 2019
Gas Moratoriums Starting to Plague the Northeast: “Unexpectedly”
Connie Mellin Natural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” Gas moratoriums are now taking place in both Massachusetts and New York State. Urban residents with their heads buried in the sand act surprised, but… When things don’t turn out as advocates promise everyone they must and will, the explanation from reporters is, sadly, seldom to question the assumptions behind the bad predictions.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 13, 2019
Columbia reaches settlement concerning gas explosions
The three municipalities affected by last September’s gas explosions have reached an $80 million settlement with local gas distribution company Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 7, 2019
Columbia Gas to announce settlement for explosion costs
Three Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts, communities impacted by the series of gas explosions and fires on Sept. 13 have reached a settlement with the company responsible for the disaster, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 5, 2019
Governor approves review of Mass. natgas lines
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed legislation funding an examination of the state’s natural gas distribution system, a move prompted by recent gas pipeline explosions, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 18, 2019
Ex-transportation czar to oversee safety efforts of NiSource
The utility company blamed for last September’s natural gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts has tapped former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to oversee its safety efforts.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 28, 2019
New York and Massachusetts Blow It with Wacky Wind Projects
... … … New York and Massachusetts are pursuing off-shore wind projects that make no sense whatsoever, while natural gas continues to get the job done elsewhere.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 22, 2019