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  • 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.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.]
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  • 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • January 9, 2021

DRBC Lawsuit Finally Going to Trial After Five Years!

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Federal Judge Robert Mariani has just issued an opinion that will, after five years, finally result in the DRBC lawsuit going to trial!
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 14, 2020

La La Land Is California Today and New York Tomorrow

Jerry RussellBinghamton Area Landowner [Editor’s Note: Jerry Russell talks about his recent trip to La La Land, otherwise known as California and, sadly, soon to include New York State.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • December 12, 2020

Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – December 12, 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • December 11, 2020

DRBC Approves LNG Project: Fractivist Shills Whine Out

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Lo and behold, the DRBC found a spine and approved the Gibbstown LNG project over the objections of the Delaware PovertyKeeper, et al..
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • December 8, 2020

The DRBC Taking: What It’s Worth in Real Dollars to Landowners

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Landgate, a service offered by the Rice brothers, helps discern the value of mineral rights and it shows how much the DRBC taking is worth.
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  • 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 28, 2020

Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 28, 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 25, 2020

Cuomo Cancels Thanksgiving: What Happens When the Police Arrive?

Chris DentonAttorney, Elmira, New York … …  Attorney Chris Denton offers up a terrific question as to what will happen as a result of Andrew Cuomo’s royal edict cancelling Thanksgiving.”
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 23, 2020

DRBC Lawsuit Update: Still Waiting on the Federal Court

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The DRBC lawsuit proceeds and the following offers a quick update and a plea to support the fight for all our mineral rights.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • November 18, 2020

Foreign Policy Can’t Be Left in the Hands of Governors

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Foreign policy belongs in the hands of the President, not governors captured by the demands of fractivists and other special interests.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • November 13, 2020

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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 31, 2020

UDRBC Candidate Night: Bognet Exposes Canadian Rich Kid Cartwright

Upper DelawareRiver Basin Citizens …. ….  The UDRBC held another very successful candidate night last week and Jim Bognet exposed Cong.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • October 27, 2020

“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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 21, 2020

RMI New Electrify-All City-Focused Report Omits Natural Gas Reality

As part of ongoing efforts to force U.S. consumers to get rid of their natural gas appliances, a new Rocky Mountain Institute report compares costs and emissions between mixed-fuel and all-electric households in selected cities across the United States.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • October 14, 2020

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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 13, 2020

Climate Defeatism? No. Just Climate Realism, Please.

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Anyone asking for realism with respect to New York’s climate adventure can be expected to be labelled as a climate defeatist, but….]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 10, 2020

Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 10, 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 8, 2020

Carbon Pricing Isn’t Even Close to Being All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Roger offers a thoroughly professional perspective on the trendy subject of carbon pricing, which is theoretically brilliant but impractical.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 7, 2020

Pennsylvania Leverages Its Natural Gas Advantage: New York Can’t

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Pennsylvania has some natural advantages over its neighbor New York and one of them is its natural gas but it’s much more than that.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • October 5, 2020

New York Times Climate Hype Isn’t Helping But Natural Gas Does

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  The New York Times has turned into a demagogic trash newspaper peddling outright hype about climate while ignoring the benefits of natural gas.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • October 2, 2020

Andrew Cuomo: America’s Absolute Worst Governor

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Andrew Cuomo has from the very beginning been one America’s worst governors but now he’s proven to be the absolute worst, the bottom feeder.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 25, 2020

Weather Isn’t Climate, No Matter How Many Times You Might Think So

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Roger explains his frustration with activists and other who insist on using weather events to draw erroneous conclusions about climate.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 22, 2020

Solar Power Could Force New Yorkers Back to the Bad Big Apple?

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Blimey! Australians who have already implemented Andrew Cuomo’s solar power plan for New York are being forced to work back in the city!
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 19, 2020

CLCPA Climate Legislation Pushed by Cuomo Will Have Big Ramifications

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: The CLCPA climate legislation is a reprehensible piece of politically correct legislation of no practicality with big impacts on NYers.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 17, 2020

Pipelines Delayed Yield Some of Highest Energy Prices in the Nation

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Delays, obstruction and cancellations of pipelines in the Northeast for the sake of green virtue signaling are creating high energy prices.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 16, 2020

Howarth Methane Obsession Will Leave New Yorkers Freezing in the Dark

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Bob Howarth, who parades around as an academic, is really an activist with a methane obsession that is going to hurt New Yorkers badly.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 14, 2020

Echoes Of New York’s Failure: Connecticut Files Climate Lawsuit

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Monday alleging deception over climate change impacts, rehashing the same, unfounded “Exxon Knew” claims that were unsuccessfully pushed in the failed New York Attorney General’s case against the company.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 14, 2020

Intermittent Renewables Are Nothing to Throw Money At

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Andrew Cuomo promises New York State a “Green Energy Future” built on intermittent renewables folly that will yield only higher prices.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 12, 2020

Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – September 12, 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 11, 2020

New York State Practices to Deceive on Green Energy

 ... … … [Editor Comment: New York State has rendered local opinion irrelevant and dispensable when it comes to favored “green energy” schemes and scams.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 11, 2020

Offshore Wind Is Really A Pirate Ship on the Sea of Subsidies

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Offshore wind only survives due to subsidies created by government and wind developers are more like pirates than entrepreneurs.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 10, 2020

State Senate Reminds Tom Wolf He’s No Tsar and RGGI Is No Good

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Tom Wolf, a trust-funder personality, imagines he doesn’t need to collaborate, but the State Senate just told him he can’t do RGGI on his own.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 8, 2020

Climate Action Council More About Political Optics Than Energy Expertise

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Andrew Cuomo’s Climate Action Council is yet another cruel joke on New York ratepayers; more about political optics than energy needs.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • September 3, 2020

RGGI Stands for A Regressive Tax on Poorest Pennsylvanians

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Joining RGGI would, says Roger, impose a regressive carbon tax on those Pennsylvanians least able to afford it and for no good reason at all.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 31, 2020

Republicans Are Abandoning Upstate New York It Seems

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist   . … Republicans have essentially abandoned Upstate New York, says Vic Furman, who wants to speak up and stand up to fight for a change.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 29, 2020

Renewable Energy Model Isn’t Working, But Biden Wants to Double Down

 ... … … [Editor Comment: California demonstrates the foolishness of the all renewable energy model and New York is going down the same road and Biden wants more.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • August 26, 2020

Emissions Games: The Full Story on How New York Is Cooking the Books

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: The Cuomo administration has cooked the books with respect to its baseline emissions inventory, ensuring a future day of reckoning.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 25, 2020

Upstate Forests Being Sacrificed on An Altar of Solar Fiction

Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist   . … Vic Furman documents the loss of Upstate forests as New York State bulls ahead with green energy schemes based on pure solar fiction.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • August 22, 2020

Fossil Fuel Myths Used to Frustrate Pipeline Development

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  There are an awful lot of fossil fuel myths being spun these days by oil and gas opponents who now seek to frustrate pipeline development.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 22, 2020

Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 22, 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 20, 2020

Emissions Inventory Games at the Heart of Cuomo Climate Strategy

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Gov. Cuomo is playing games with his Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, using an unvetted 1990 emissions inventory.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 8, 2020

RGGI Offers Pennsylvania Little or Nothing, Except A New Tax

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Roger uses his experience to look at Pennsylvania’s proposed RGGI program and concludes it is an exercise in virtue signaling of little value.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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  • August 8, 2020

Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 8, 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 6, 2020

Landfill Case Provides Candid Perspectives on Fractivist Tactics

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  A Steuben County landfill case offers some realistic perspective on fractivist tactics, which generally consist of deceiving, pretending and stalling.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 6, 2020

Risk, Risk and More Risk Is What Andrew Cuomo Has Put on New Yorkers

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Roger applies his analytical skills to a big problem with Gov.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog, Fracking
  • August 5, 2020

New York City Dying As Cuomo/deBlasio Chickens Come Home to Roost

Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  New York City is in a very bad way as some wealthy chickens fly the coop and other poor political chickens come home to roost leaving Gov.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • August 1, 2020

Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 1, 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.
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • July 31, 2020

RGGI Investments Generate Extremely Poor Rates of Return

Roger CaiazzaIndependent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor Comment: Roger takes a hard look at RGGI investments and finds, based on the entity’s own standards, that they generate extraordinarily poor returns for ratepayers.]
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  • Joe Barone, Shale Directories
  • Blog
  • July 30, 2020

While U.S. Pipelines Face Siege from Extremists, China Moves Ahead

 ... … … [Editor Comment: Pipelines here at home in the U.S. are ever harder to get done as extremist opponents tie them up in courts, but China is moving ahead ever faster.]
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