- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2021
Clean Energy Doesn’t Happen Without Natural Gas!
Clean Energy Doesn’t Happen Without Natural Gas! Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Clean energy is, to a large extent, in the eye of the beholder, but one thing is surely clear; natural gas is critical to any of it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 21, 2021
Tax Credits for Losers Just Continue Forever and Ever
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Robert Bradley succinctly calls out the foolishness of government tax credits for uneconomical wind energy projects and the like.]- 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.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 16, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 16, 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 13, 2021
Green New Deal Ideologies, Fantasies and Realities
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The incoming Biden Administration is going whole hog with the Green New Deal and it promises to be an unmitigated disaster awaiting.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 11, 2021
Free Speech Is Under Major Assault by Big Tech Fascists
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The events of this weekend represent a frightening attack on free speech by a Big Tech oligarchy that is increasingly fascist in character.- 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 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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- January 2, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 2, 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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- 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 30, 2020
Gas Fired Generation Is Building Its Lead Over Solar and Wind
David Wojick, PhDIndependent Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Solar and wind get a lot of attention but its gas fired generation that is producing more and more of our electricity in this country.]- 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 21, 2020
WSJ “News” on Green Energy Is Pure Puffery Compared to Editorial
Roger DonwayContributor, MasterResource … … [Editor’s Note: Roger Downey focuses on a problem long known to careful readers of the Wall Street Journal or WSJ; its news pages are shallow claptrap when it comes to “green energy.”]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 16, 2020
Wolf Called Out on “Blatant Disregard for the Legislature”
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania’s arrogant but hapless trust-funder Governor is shunting aside the state legislature in his quest to impose RGGI.- 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.European Green New Deal Is As Phony As It Comes
Tom ReynoldsCo-Founder of Dryden Safe Energy Coalition … … [Editor’s Note: Supposed European Green New Deal successes are at least partly, and probably mostly, attributable to natural gas, a fact largely buried.]- 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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- December 2, 2020
Apocalypse Never – The Confessions of A Thinking Environmentalist
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Michael Shellenberger is the author of Apocalypse Never, a wonderful takedown of green eggs and scam schemes and schemers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 1, 2020
Electric Vehicle Mandate in UK Really About Controlling All of Us
... … … [Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson has banned fracking and aims to force Brits into the electric vehicle they can’t afford, which means pushing them into cities.]- 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 27, 2020
China Does Renewables Head Fake: Builds Energy Reserves with WuFlu
... … … [Editor’s Note: China let its virus loose upon the world and is now using it to build energy reserves, while pretending to be a renewables leader.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 24, 2020
Yergin and ‘The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations’
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Daniel Yergin has written another energy tome and Bob Bradley reviews it with a critical eye, finding it quite good as a whole.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 19, 2020
Renewable Energy Is A Losing Proposition: End the Subsidies
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Renewable energy subsidies have supported an industry that is completely uneconomic and unsustainable and the time is past to end them.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 14, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 14, 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 12, 2020
Lithium Batteries Ain’t No Solution If You’re Worried About Pollution
... … … [Editor’s Note: Lithium batteries are at the heart of renewable energy storage plans but they are dirty, dangerous and pollute far more than fracking.]Tom Wolf Wants Pennsylvania in RGGI and Higher Electric Bills
... … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf arrogantly demands Pennsylvania join RGGI to pay 50% higher electric bills like the rest of the Northeast states in the suicide pact.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 7, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – November 7, 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 6, 2020
Wind Power Trap Threatens to Make the UK the New California
... … … Editor’s Note: Boris Johnson, who rejected fracking, now wants to take the United Kingdom right into the wind power trap just like the idiots in California.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 3, 2020
Medicine Hat Swallows Bitter Solar Pill While Trying to Grin and Bear It
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Medicine Hat, Alberta, threw a cool $12 million into a solar facility that still cannot compete with natural gas; it’s bitter medicine.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
Biden’s Plans Regarding Energy Are Simply Not Doable
... … … Editor’s Note: Biden’s plans to recreate the entire U.S. energy system beginning with electricity over the next 14 years will result in enormous costs.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
Biden/Harris Energy/Climate Plan Is Disaster in Progress
Sterling BurnettSenior Fellow, Energy and Environment, The Heartland Institute … … [Editor’s Note: The real Biden/Harris Energy/Climate Plan is far more dangerous than their equivocating political statements this October.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
Sinopec eyes hydrogen supply chain push
China’s Sinopec is said to be ready to push development and investments towards the hydrogen supply chain, seeking leadership in future energy sources, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
Shell starts its new ‘era’ raising dividends
Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday it is starting a new era of dividend growth, as it announced a portfolio reshape to meet cleaner energy needs, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 28, 2020
Electricity transformation requires greater efforts, flexibility: IEA
As the world undergoes the “most dramatic” transformation in the electricity sector, industry and governments should pay close attention to evolving challenges, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday.Joe Biden, If Elected, Would Ruin America’s Energy System
... … … Editor’s Note: It’s unclear if Joe Biden has a clear idea about anything, but he certainly doesn’t understand energy or anything about how it’s produced.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 27, 2020
New York City tidal project begins service
Verdant Power has simultaneously installed three pilot tidal power turbines at its Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project site on the East River in New York City, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 27, 2020
Iberdrola to operate 50-MW battery storage in Australia
Spain’s utility giant Iberdrola said Monday it will operate a 50-megawatt (MW) battery-powered energy storage system in New South Wales, Australia, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 26, 2020
New York to transition seven peaker gas-fired power plants
The New York Power Authority is looking at renewables with battery storage and low-to-zero carbon emission technologies to meet the peak energy demands of New York City and Long Island, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 26, 2020
Addition to Calif. solar, battery storage project
Canadian Solar Inc. has announced a supply contract and long-term service agreement to deliver and integrate a 75 megawatt/300 megawatt hour lithium-ion battery storage project in California, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 26, 2020
Oil future at center of Trump-Biden debate
The future of the oil and gas industry and climate change emerged key topics in the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 24, 2020
Biden Plans for Green New Deal Offer Devastating Future
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Joe Biden, while denying it, has proposed a Green New Deal that would be nothing less than disastrous for Americans and others.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2020
NIPSCO plans 900MW solar, battery storage in Indiana
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. LLC (NIPSCO) announced on Wednesday that it intends to develop an additional 900 megawatts of solar power and battery storage in Indiana, as part of its long-term generation strategy, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2020
Texas wind project begins commercial operations
Partners Tri Global Energy and Denmark-based Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners have started commercial operations at a 162-megawatt wind project in West Texas, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2020
Biden’s $2T clean energy plan could threaten gas industry
U.S. Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s $2 trillion clean energy plan could end natural gas consumption in power generation within 15 years, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 20, 2020
Carbon Free Energy Doesn’t Exist, Joe. Come on Man!
... … … Editor’s Note: There is no such thing as carbon free energy but politicians such as Joe Biden can’t grasp it and “green energy” advocates won’t even try.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 20, 2020
Wind, solar costs to further pressure coal/gas powergen in 2025: BNEF
Wind and solar energies are already the cheapest source of power generation in most places, and by 2025 it will be cheaper to build a new wind/solar farm than run an existing coal/gas-fired power plant.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Climate Justice They Say, But It’s All Just More Special Interest Politics
David KreutzerSenior Economist at Institute for Energy Research … … [Editor’s Note: Climate justice is no real thing; it’s but yet still another con designed to feed the needs of ravenous special interests from the swamp.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Canadian company buys Spanish solar assets
Q-Energy has announced the sale of 73 solar assets in Spain to Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ), a global institutional investor, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Two solar farms serving Chickasee, Choctaw nations
OG&E has completed construction on two small solar farms in southeastern Oklahoma, Kallanish Energy reports. The two 5-megawatt facilities are in Davis and Durant.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Total, Adani expand Indian solar portfolio to 2.3GW
France’s Total added three new solar power plants to its portfolio in India, through a partnership with AGEL, the renewables subsidiary of the Adani Group.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 16, 2020
Høglund joins concept development of wind/LNG-run vessels
Norway’s marine technology provider Høglund Marine Solutions has acquired a majority stake in Vindskip AS – a company developing a wind/LNG-powered vessel concept.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 15, 2020
Benton PUD (Public Utility District) Blows the Whistle on Wind Energy
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A public utility district established in the 1934 in rural Washington, the Benton PUD, blows the whistle on exactly what is wrong with wind.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 15, 2020
Virginia wind project passes reliability testing
Dominion Energy announced on Wednesday that its $300 million Virginia offshore wind project has successfully completed its reliability testing and is getting closer to beginning commercial operations, Kallanish Energy reports.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
Wind Energy Waste Won’t Just Harmlessly Blow Away
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … Wind energy waste is an immense problem here in the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 13, 2020