- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 20, 2019
Powerful Reality: More Solar Power Means More Air Pollution
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … It is undeniable; adding more solar power to the grid means decreases the environmental performance of baseload energy systems and grow air pollution.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 20, 2019
Howarth Methane Study Ignored Empirical Data Falsifying the Conclusion
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … A Bob Howarth methane study has gotten some traction here and there amongst the uneducated empathetic press but key data falsifying it has been ignored.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 16, 2019
Bob Howarth Seeks Relevance with Still More Pseudo-Science
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Bob Howarth, long forgotten by most, returns with yet another pseudo-science study attacking natural gas development based on totally bizarre methane claims.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
National Grid Shows Some Backbone in Fighting New York Energy Insanity
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … National Grid doesn’t seem to fit the New York model. It is not surrendering to political correctness and pandering to the governor.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 13, 2019
Northern Access Pipeline Project Gets Another “Nyet” from Cuomo’s DEC
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Northern Access Pipeline developer NFG has received another denial of water quality certification from Andrew Cuomo’s DEC but the project will get built.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 10, 2019
Lynbrook Community Receives Some Insights on New York’s Gas Crisis
Victor Furman Landowner Advocates of New York …. …. Lynbrook, Long Island, folks heard from Vic Furman of Landowner Advocates of New York Wednesday.- 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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- August 5, 2019
Furnaces Now Out; New York Has A Fever and Loses Its Mind
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) New York’s plan to eliminate furnaces is a case of going over the edge and plunging into the depths of ideological insanity.DRBC Water Dependence Was Greatly Exaggerated All Along!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … DRBC water dependence claims have ranged from 15 to 22 million people over the years but the real number was always much lower and the DRBC has admitted it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 31, 2019
Landowner Advocates of New York Moving Ahead, Says Furman!
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman says Landowner Advocates of New York is gaining support for a legal challenge to Gov.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 31, 2019
Broome County Solar Farm A Rebuke of New York Energy Policy
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Broome County Solar Farm is operating and the energy produced, compared to predictions, illustrates the futility of powering New York with solar energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 30, 2019
More Power Outages Coming to New York, Thanks to Cuomo
... … … If you live in New York State you can expect more power outages thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandering attempts to curry favor with green energy scammers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 27, 2019
Leisure Class Environmentalists Are Too Often Just Selfish NIMBYs
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Leisure class environmentalists are the bane of true environmentalism or, as I prefer to call it, conservation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 27, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Best Picks of the Week July 27, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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 26, 2019
The Kirsten Gillibrand Moonshot A Political Promise to Rent Seekers
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The “Kirsten Gillibrand Moonshot” is as pure an attempt to buy the votes of government rent seekers as ever was, even by “Boss Tweed” New York standards.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 26, 2019
“Landowners Unite” Says Vic Furman in Plea for Support to Fight Cuomo
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman is asking that landowners unite in support for Landowner Advocates of New York to challenge Gov.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 25, 2019
Otsego 2000, Another Fake, Phony, Fraud Fractivist Outfit
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Otsego 2000 is yet another fake, phony, fraud fractivist outfit funded by gentry class special interests, with no real stake in anything but their ideology.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 24, 2019
Poll: New Yorkers Largely Unaware of How New York City Gets Its Energy
The Natural Resources Defense Council is touting a recent poll claiming to show that the more New Yorkers learn about a proposed pipeline, the more they oppose it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 23, 2019
Renewable Generation Reality; It’s Mostly Meaningless
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Renewable generation amounts to little in the big picture and must be backed up by dispatchable energy from sources such as natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 19, 2019
Cuomo Tilts at Windmills As New Yorkers Pay Confiscatory Electric Rates
Ken Girardin Policy Analyst, Empire Center for Public Policy, Inc. Andrew Cuomo, since becoming governor, has repeatedly stuck it to New York electric ratepayers and now he’s embarking on yet another windy boondoggle.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 15, 2019
New Yorkers Desperate for More Natural Gas Pipeline Capacity
“Keep It In the Ground” efforts to obstruct and delay pipeline infrastructure are having real consequences for consumers, as New Yorkers are experiencing first-hand.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 15, 2019
Manhattan Power Outage Causes Cuomo to Now Want Grid Redundancy
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … A Manhattan power outage is forcing New York politicians to confront energy reality. The grid now needs redundancy Cuomo says as he fights gas power plants.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 13, 2019
Climate Leadership Law Shaping Up As A Degrowth Mass Exodus
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Climate leadership? No. Jim Willis assesses New York’s new law; a de-growth initiative that will accelerate the inevitable destruction of the Empire State.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 12, 2019
Toby Rice, the New Head of EQT, Wanted to Drill Here First
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Toby Rice, the young, hard-charging guy who just won a war to take over EQT, the nation’s largest natural gas producer, wanted to drill in the DRBC region.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 10, 2019
Norwich Solar Farm Another Snake Oil Pitch at Our Expense
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. “Norwich solar farm will benefit everyone” the pitch goes, but Vic Furman has a different view.Climateers: If You Mean It, You Should Love Natural Gas
Richard Downey Unatego Area Landowners Association Climateers, Richard Downey says, are not being truthful when they pretend anything other than natural gas is going to address what they say needs to happen.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 4, 2019
Tax-Exempt Foundations, America’s Aristocracy, Threaten All Our Rights
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Tax-exempt foundations, the vehicles used by America’s aristocracy to exercise undue influence over our public policy, threaten our Constitutional rights.- 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 29, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 29, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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 27, 2019
Emissions Going Higher in New York Due to Green Political Correctness
Ken Girardin Policy Analyst, Empire Center for Public Policy, Inc. Emissions, especially CO2, are going to go up in New York because the state’s insane energy policies are forcing consumers into higher emissions choices.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 27, 2019
Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Belongs in the Fireplace
James Leonard President, National Association of Royalty Owners – New York Chapter New York’s new Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act was probably hatched in Albany “fireplaces” and it should be returned to one for disposal.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2019
Vic Furman Appeals for Help in Taking Landowner Group Public
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman is asking for help in taking a group, of which he is part, called Landowner Advocates of New York, public.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2019
Climate Change Law Is Even Worse Than I Thought for New York
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York climate change law is but politicians chasing hyped up existential green threats for political gain, but it portends a yellow vest future.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 23, 2019
Take Notice DRBC: “Sue Me” Approach to the Takings Clause Is Untenable.
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an opinion making it easier to go to Federal court for relief under the Takings Clause.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 22, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 22, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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 19, 2019
Solar Sales Pitch Goes Awry for Politically Correct Millennial
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman relates his experience dealing with a solar sales pitch from a naive millennial who simply bought into “green energy” before thinking it through.- 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 15, 2019
National Grid Northeast 80 by 50 Pathway Isn’t Going to Appease Radicals
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … National Grid has developed a “Northeast 80 by 50 Pathway” apparently hoping to appease radicals who want no part of natural gas, but it’s not going to work.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 15, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 15, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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 14, 2019
Judge in Exxon Case to NY AG: Stop Stalling
New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James’s case Martin Act case against ExxonMobil is still in pre-trial hearings, but Justice Barry Ostrager is already losing patience.Double-Dealing DRBC Shows All Its Cards
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The double-dealing DRBC just showed the world what it’s all about; rewarding the lower valley with development while proposing to stop it entirely upriver.- 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.DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini Gets Snarky Over Lobbying Assertion
Betty Sutliff Wayne County LandownerUDRBC Secretary DRBC Executive Director Steve Tambini didn’t like being called out for lobbying the Pennsylvania legislature in opposition to Jonathan Fritz’s H.B.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 9, 2019
New Jersey DEP Under Murphy Steals Cuomo Flea Flicker Play on NESE
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) New Jersey DEP under Phil Panderbear Murphy is a clone of Andrew Cuomo’s DEC and has just stolen the latter’s flea-flicker play in the NESE pipeline game.Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 8, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW 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 7, 2019
The New York Green New Deal – Where’s the Plan? There Is No Plan.
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York Green New Deal is a proposal without a plan; rhetoric wrapped in political promises that have no substance because there is no nothing there.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2019
LIUNA Lambasts Democrats Selling Out to Elitist Enviros
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … LIUNA, the Laborers’ International Union of North America, just messaged New York Democrats; “stop taking us for granted to cater to elitist enviros.” I try to avoid doing Democrat versus Republican here.NY Post Editorial Explodes Cuomo Renewables Delusion
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … NY Post readers were treated to the one of the best editorials it has yet to write on the subject of energy.DEC Forced Into Corner on Power Plant Permits by Cuomo Games
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) DEC, which Andrew Cuomo controls in its entirety, is under court order to process the already operating CPV Valley Energy Center’s air quality permits.Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – June 1, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.H.B. 827 Draws Phony Attack from Delaware Riverkeeper Stooge?
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … H.B. 827, Rep Jonathan Fritz’s bill to compensate DRBC landowners for their huge losses from the taking that would result from a fracking ban, is attacked.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 31, 2019
Northeast Gas Shortages Are the Issue; The One Issue That Matters
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Northeast gas shortages are what really matter when it comes to fighting back against fracking bans, pipeline obstruction and other fractivist initiatives.- 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.Drill A Gas Well, Bring Home A Soldier: How It Came to Be
Victor Furman Upstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. Vic Furman tells how “Drill A Gas Well, Bring Home A Soldier” became the slogan of Upstate NY landowners and explains why it’s important this Memorial Day.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 25, 2019
New York Metro Area Threatened with Future Blackouts Thanks to Cuomo
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … The New York metro area can expect future blackouts thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s game-playing brinkmanship with regard to power produced by natural gas.- 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 21, 2019
Monster Wind Turbines Show Cuomo Energy Policy Is Pure Fantasy
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Monster wind turbines taller than 65 story buildings being proposed in Chenango County, New York are not wanted and expose Cuomo’s energy policy as fantasy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 18, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – May 18, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Our 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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- May 18, 2019