- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 26, 2020
Fairgrounds Are the Subject of Major Grandstanding by the Governor
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Andrew Cuomo is a grandstanding governor to be sure, but who among us knew he would engage in grandstanding with the New York State Fairgrounds?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 24, 2020
Covid-19 highlights key role of electricity, clean energy: IEA
The coronavirus crisis is causing havoc across the globe and has highlighted how much modern societies rely on electricity, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 24, 2020
Total sets immediate action plan for current market
French oil major Total on Monday joined peers Shell and Equinor on announcing immediate action to cope in a “three-crises” environment, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 23, 2020
France’s Total makes new renewables acquisition
French oil major Total said on Friday it has made a “substantial investment” in wind power, acquiring 100% of Global Wind Power (GWP) France, Kallanish Energy reports.Google Serving As NRDC Outlet to Promote Fracking Falsehoods
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Google, the supposedly neutral unbiased search engine, and green scammer, is feeding us all trash from the NRDC, with which it has always been allied.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 21, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – March 21, 2020
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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- March 20, 2020
Eni plans ‘strong’ cut to capex, cancels share buyback
Italian oil major Eni said on Wednesday it has cancelled its share buyback program, lowered its forecast for Brent crude and is revising its spending plans, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 19, 2020
Renewable Energy Industry Seeks to Scam Public During Health Crisis
American Energy Alliance …. …. Bring on the green eggs and scam! That’s just what we need to fight the Wuhan Corona Virus!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 17, 2020
Corona Lessons: 10 Things We’ve Already Learned
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Are there Corona lessons to be learned as the nation deals with the this latest public health threat?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 17, 2020
FirstEnergy Ripping Off Electric Consumers with Big Government Bailouts!
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Once the subsidy cow was led into the energy milking parlor by Big Green, it was inevitable others (e.g.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 16, 2020
Green New Deal Fanatics Have No Concept of What They Propose
Paul Driessen Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Green New Deal fanatics are proposing something that is literally impossible and even if it were achievable would destructive of life as we know it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 16, 2020
California Gas Bans Ensure Less Choice and Ever Higher Prices
... … … California’s gas bans are yet another choice-depriving, price-raising policy intended to force consumers into buying into the politics of extremists.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 14, 2020
Regulatory Assistance Project Is Another Front for Green Special Interests
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The Regulatory Assistance Project is pushing for electric vehicles and other green scams being advanced by special interests seeking out government rent.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 13, 2020
Total to build France’s largest battery-based storage system
Total announced Thursday its plans to build France’s largest battery-based energy storage project, supporting its goal to become “the responsible energy major,” Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 11, 2020
Wind turbine order capacity breaks new record in 2019
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have experienced a record amount of wind turbine capacity order globally, with figures nearly reaching 100 gigawatts (GW), Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 10, 2020
EV Dream Is More of Nightmare for American Taxpayers
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . The EV dream is the subject of another wonderful Clear Energy Alliance. It’s a nightmare for taxpayers who foot the bill for wealthy green virtue signaling.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 9, 2020
Gas Appliances and the Dunces on A Crusade to Ban Them
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … A wave of green scum has smothered communities on the left coast and the air-deprived brains of those who remain have led them to ban gas appliances.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 9, 2020
New Mexico governor signs renewable energy bills
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed legislation to expand solar and wind power in New Mexico and to modernize the state’s electric grid to allow for increased export of renewable energy, Kallanish Energy reports.Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – March 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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- March 6, 2020
CLCPA Begins, But Some Advice Regarding the Baloney
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act or “CLCPA” process has begun and suspicious minds are very much warranted, says Roger Caiazza. In the summer of 2019 Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) which was described as the most ambitious and comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation in the country when Cuomo signed the legislation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 6, 2020
Green New Deal Anniversary Reminds Us What A Sorry Scheme It Was
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … The Green New Deal is a year old but the farting cows, grounding of all airplanes and rebuilding of every structure in America seems like a distant debacle.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 6, 2020
Florida approves $1.8B community solar project
Florida regulators have approved Florida Power & Light’s $1.8 billion SolarTogether program, Kallanish Energy reports. Approval came from the Florida Public Service Commission.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 5, 2020
Germany Just Keeps Digging A Hole with Renewables
... … … High electricity prices, subsidies galore, an angry public and missed CO2 targets. But Germany just keeps digging a renewables hole with off-shore wind.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 5, 2020
European majors leading net-zero race: GlobalData
International oil and gas companies are talking more about the significance of climate change in their corporate strategy, and the European majors are leading the way, analytics company GlobalData said Wednesday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 4, 2020
Natural Gas Consumption: Rockin’ In Two by Two: Roll Over Renewables
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Natural gas is rockin’ it compared to renewables according to the latest data.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 3, 2020
UK to allow onshore wind to compete in power auctions
The UK government announced Monday a U-turn plan on onshore wind power, by allowing the technology to compete for contracts in power auctions, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 29, 2020
CLCPA Goals Set by Climate Change Zealots Will Only Force Its Repeal
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act or “CLCPA” is purely aspirational with no hope of being practicable.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 27, 2020
Wind now US’s most-used renewable energy source
In 2019, annual wind generation in the U.S. exceeded hydroelectric generation for the first time, with wind power the country’s top renewable power source, the Energy Information Administration reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2020
Fossil Fuels Advocacy Alarms Hyper-Sensitive Alarmists
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … Fossil fuel opponents are losing it because Alex Epstein is making the moral case for those fossil fuels; hyper-sensitive alarmists can’t handle debate.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2020
Africa Energy Situation and Future Suffers from NGO Condescension
Steve HeinsEnergy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist“The Practical Environmentalist and Word Merchant” … Africa is making progress but the condescension of NGOs and supposed world leadership toward the continent is reflected in politically correct energy help. Steven Lyazi, a college student from Uganda wrote a piece on this site back in 2017 pointing out Africa didn’t need politically correct green energy so much as real energy in the form of electric power plants that build upon the continent’s plentiful natural resources, including natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 25, 2020
Cuomo Proposes to Shove Renewables Onto Your Town, Like Them or Not
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The New York Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act is the Andrew Cuomo plan to put an industrial solar or wind facility in your yard. On February 21, 2020 New York governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a 30-day budget amendment that will “streamline the process for environmentally responsible and cost-effective siting of large-scale renewable energy projects across the state”.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 25, 2020
Oman plans to install offshore wind farms in Arabian Sea
Oman reportedly is planning to build offshore wind farms in the Arabian Sea, a plan that complements the country’s desire to install and increase high power generation capacity from renewable resources, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 25, 2020
Wisconsin regulators OK $208M solar farm buy
Wisconsin regulators have approved the sale of half of a 300-megawatt solar farm under construction in southwestern Wisconsin to Madison Gas and Electric and We Energies, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 24, 2020
Brightmark expanding WNY biogas project
California-based waste-to-energy development company Brightmark last week said it’s expanded its Western New York dairy biogas project to partner with six farms throughout the region, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 22, 2020
NYSERDA Plan Could Add $200/Month Each in Electric and Gas Costs
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … NYSERDA plans to implement Andrew Cuomo’s climate ideas for New York could add costs to residential customer of $200/month each for electricity or gas. Alicia Barton, President & CEO of the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) recently announced the release of NYSERDA’s 2020-2023 Strategic Outlook which is their overview of their plans for the next several years.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 22, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 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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- February 21, 2020
US solar jobs up 167% since 2010: survey
U.S. solar industry jobs have jumped 167% in the last decade, from just over 93,000 jobs in 2010, to 249,983 jobs in 2019, according to the 10th annual “National Solar Jobs Census,” Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 19, 2020
Biomass, Like So Many Other Renewable Scams, Can’t Make It on Its Own
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … “The Ahuman Manifesto” is fringe today, but that it is even half-seriously proposed as the final solution to climate change exposes environmental nihilsim.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 18, 2020
Crescent Dunes Solar Project Disappears Into the Sands
... … … How many times do politicians have to learn they aren’t good at picking winners and losers. Crescent Dunes is the latest solar failure and humility hint.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 17, 2020
Wind, solar generating capacity rising: STEO
The share of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants will remain relatively steady from 2019 through 2021, from 37% in 2019, to 38% in 2020, then falling back to 37% in 2021, the Energy Information Administration projects in the February Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 15, 2020
CLCPA, Cuomo’s Green Badge of Virtue, Setting Him Up for Failure
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … The CLCPA was set to be Andrew Cuomo’s crowning green achievement, but the law is an ass in this case and Cuomo will probably be the guy who raised CO2. During the summer of 2019, Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) which was described as the most ambitious and comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation in the country when Cuomo signed the legislation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 15, 2020
BEBs or Bust? Battery Electric Buses Make No Sense at All
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … BEBs or battery electric buses make no sense environmentally or economically and offer nothing whatsoever for most geographies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 15, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 15, 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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- February 14, 2020
RGGI or Not? Only If You Like Hidden Costs and Subsidies!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Mark Mathis, at the Clear Energy Alliance, has just out a video explaining how RGGI is but a hidden cost initiative to promote more green eggs and scam.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 10, 2020
CA utility wildfire prevention plans include blackouts
California utilities plan to continue shutting off customers’ power during dry and windy conditions to prevent possible deadly wildfires, but they will make outages more targeted to avoid widespread blackouts, according to plans filed Friday with the state, The Associated Press reported.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 8, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 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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- February 7, 2020
Climate Change Science Gains Nothing from Anecdotes
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … Climate change science is out. Climate change politics are in and based only on anecdotes providing excuses for politicians to appease special interests. This post describes another evaluation of anecdotal evidence that is portrayed as evidence of global warming.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 6, 2020
Wind Energy Feeding at the Government Subsidy Trough for 28 Years!
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … Bob Bradley details the how the wind energy industry has been feeding at the government subsidy trough for 28 years promising success just over the horizon.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 5, 2020
Natural Gas Production Expected to Grow for Next 30 Years: It’s King!
... … … Natural gas production is projected to grow as far as the EIA can see (2050). Natural gas is clearly king of the hill when it comes to our energy future.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 4, 2020
US wind industry experiences 3rd-strongest year ever
The U.S. wind industry experienced its third-strongest year on record in 2019, as developers added 9,143 megawatts of wind power capacity to the grid – up 20% from 2018, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 1, 2020
Michael Bloomberg Isn’t Just Trying to Buy the Presidency
... … … Michael Bloomberg is gigantically wealthy, arrogant and obsessed with controlling everything. His Presidential campaign is part of a much grander strategy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 29, 2020
Phil Murphy Proposes to Turn Off Gas to New Jersey
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Phil Murphy is racing against Andrew Cuomo for the Demagogue of the Year top honors at the Annual Pander Bear Awards to be held later this year in NYC.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 28, 2020
CLCPA Invites A “Banquet of Consequences” for New Yorkers
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) invites a banquet of consequences that activists and politicians are blithely ignoring. In the summer of 2019 the Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) which was described as the most ambitious and comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation in the country when Cuomo signed the legislation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 27, 2020
Ozymandias Lives in Andrew Cuomo, King of Kings?
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Ozymandias, was the Greek name for an Egyptian pharaoh who saw himself king of kings and some poetry regarding his statue tells us a lot about Andrew Cuomo.Cities, Baffled by Fracking, Are Vulnerable to Corruption and Decay
Steve HeinsEnergy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist“The Practical Environmentalist and Word Merchant” … America’s cities are showing ever more signs of corruption and it is spreading throughout the states they dominate, to the detriment of sane energy policy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 25, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – January 25, 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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- January 24, 2020
NextEra Energy Partners to focus on growth, not acquisitions
Florida-based NextEra Energy Partners said on Friday it expects to achieve long-term growth without committing to further acquisitions at least until 2021, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 24, 2020
Governor Corruptocrat Sells Out Southern Tier Again with Still More Deceit
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Governor Corruptocrat, a/k/a Andrew Cuomo, is passing out other people’s money in the form of grants for pet projects while proposing to ban fracking.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 22, 2020