- 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 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 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!- 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.]- 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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- 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 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.]- 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.- 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..- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- 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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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.”- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- 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.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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- 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.- 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.“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 Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.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
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….]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 30, 2020