- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 21, 2019
Heelstone Energy garners Ares investment
Heelstone Energy, a utility-scale solar developer, has received an investment of an undisclosed size by Ares Management Corp.’s Infrastructure and Power (Aip) operation, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 21, 2019
Is Wind Power, Having Inflated Electric Prices, Done in Germany?
... … … Wind power has successfully exploded electricity prices in Germany, turned its neighbors into enemies and cost a fortune.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 17, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week, August 17, 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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- August 16, 2019
EV Subsidies, Like Most Green Scams, Are “Robin-Hood-in-Reverse Policy”
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) EV subsidies are disgusting because they principally benefit well-off trendy folks who can well afford electric vehicles without help from ordinary taxpayers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 16, 2019
PG&E names industry vet Vesey as utility head
Holding company PG&E Corp., operating under bankruptcy court protection, said the board of its Pacific Gas and Electric Co. unit (also in bankruptcy), has appointed Andrew M.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 16, 2019
E.ON announces 440 MW South Texas wind farm
Renewable energy giant E.ON said Thursday its largest, single-phase project, the $500 million, 440-megawatt onshore wind farm, Big Raymond, will be built in Texas’ Willacy, Cameron and Hidalgo counties, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 15, 2019
New Natural Gas Record for Power Generation Set
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … A new natural gas record was recently set for use of this energy source in producing electric power that sustains our way of living in this nation, says EIA.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 15, 2019
Michael Moore and His Turn Against Renewable Energy
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. . .. Michael Moore, the radical movie guy who has made millions attacking capitalism, has turned against renewables, realizing they’re mostly a hedge-fund scam.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
Trump administration upsets offshore wind plans
The Trump administration has ordered a major environmental review of the growing offshore wind industry – a review that some experts see as derailing the nation’s first major project and raises questions concerning future developments, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 12, 2019
Pg&e evaluating proposal from hedge funds
Holding company Pg&e Corp. said Friday it’s evaluating a proposal from hedge funds Knighthead Capital Management and Abrams Capital Management to provide $15 billion in equity capital commitments supporting a plan to reorganize the company.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 10, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week, August 10, 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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- 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
China’s Didi teams with BP to build EV charging network
Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing behemoth, has teamed with oil supermajor BP to build electric vehicle (EV)-charging stations in China, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 2, 2019
Going Green Is No Fun; No Wonder Fractivists Are So Miserable
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Going green, regardless what fractivists may say, is no idea of a good time for most of us.- 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 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 22, 2019
Wind Turbines: A Clear and Present Danger to the Environment?
... … … Wind turbines, it turns out, unsurprisingly, have serious impacts on the environment that a whole lot of people are trying to ignore as they subsidize them.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 22, 2019
DTE approved to buy Isabella Wind projects
Apex Clean Energy said last week its proposed sale of the Isabella Wind I and II projects to DTE Energy has been conditionally approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission (Mpsc), Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 20, 2019
System Change and Destruction at the Heart of Fractivism
Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) System change is really at the core of fractivism and far too much of climate change activism.- 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 13, 2019
Natural Gas NOW Best Picks of the Week – July 13, 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 12, 2019
Pg&e didn’t repair lines it knew could cause wildfires: report
California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (Pg&e) knew power lines in Northern California could fail and cause wildfires, but the company delayed repairs for years before a 2018 blaze that killed 85 people, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 11, 2019
Representative Ullman Gets Strong Response from UDRBC
Ron StametsVice-President, Upper Delaware River Basin Citizens (UDRBC)“More Than A River” … … Representative Ullman, who lives way downriver, speculates fracking is a threat to the Delaware and is determined to make landowners pay for her speculation.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 11, 2019
Power from natgas to rise in 2019, slip in 2020: Steo
The share of U.S. total utility-scale electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 35% in 2018, to 38% in 2019, and then decline slightly in 2020, according to the latest Steo, Short-Term Energy Outlook, produced by the Energy Information Administration.- 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.Energy Realities for Confronting Crackpots and Frackpots
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Energy realities are the proper tools of rebuttal for cleaning up the green slime generated by crackpot and frackpot utopians with ideas that can’t work.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 7, 2019
Lake Erie Wind Project Shows Green Political Correctness Is A Disease
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … A Lake Erie wind project demonstrates the sheer futility of so much of green political correctness as time and money are wasted on a really dumb project.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 6, 2019
Batteries Not Included; The True Levelized Cost of Renewables
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Batteries not included applies not to only the new toy you bought but also to the calculated levelized cost of renewables.Natural Gas NOW Picks of the Week – July 6, 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 3, 2019
U.S. Natural Gas Consumption Has Increased by 37% since 2005!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural gas consumption figures analyzed by the Energy Information Administration show natural gas has ascended to new heights as the energy fuel of choice.- 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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- July 2, 2019
Fossil fuels continue to dominate US energy consumption
Fossil fuels, including petroleum, natural gas, and coal, have accounted for at least 80% of energy consumption in the U.S. for well over a century, according to the Energy Information Administration.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 30, 2019
Carbon Dioxide Storage for Oil and Gas, As Renewables Hit Obstacle Wall
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Carbon dioxide storage is a lot closer than fractivists suppose and it will destroy any advantages claimed by renewables as that sector faces big problems.- 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 28, 2019
I Squared Capital to Sell Cube Hydro to Ontario Power
I Squared Capital, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund I, announced this week it’s selling its hydropower operations, Cube Hydro Partners, and its affiliate, Helix Partners, to Ontario Power Generation (Opg) for an undisclosed price.- 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 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 25, 2019
Missouri-Kansas wind farm gets go-ahead
Construction will begin this fall on a 600-megawatt wind project in southwest Missouri/southeast Kansas, following approval of the plan by the Missouri Public Service Commission, Kallanish Energy finds.- 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 21, 2019
Natural Gas Consumption Increases 5% As Emissions Grow by Only 2%
... … … Natural gas consumption grew by 5% in 2018 with economic growth, but emissions only grew only 2%, showing how gas, by changing the energy mix is a big win.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
PG&E settles wildfire claims for $1B
Pacific Gas and Electric said Wednesday it’s reached agreements to resolve wildfire claims made by 18 local public entities (cities, counties, districts and public agencies) impacted by the 2015 Butte Fire, 2017 Northern California wildfires and 2018 Camp Fire.- 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 19, 2019
EU scolds 15 countries on renewables target
Industry association WindEurope said Tuesday the European Commission called out 15 countries for not meeting their renewables targets, Kallanish Energy learns.- 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 13, 2019
Southwestern states have better solar resources: EIA
Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in the U.S. operated on average at roughly 25% of their electricity generating capacity, based on an average of annual values, from 2014 through 2017, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 12, 2019
Replacing Coal with Gas Is the Only Way to Catch Up in Reducing CO2
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Replacing coal with shale gas has allowed the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions more than anyone else and for the world to catch up more of this must be done.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.Combined-Cycle Natural Gas Power Beats Everything Else
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Combined-cycle natural gas power plants offer lower cost electricity than anything else, especially renewables, the true costs of which are never counted.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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 31, 2019
PG&E plan to use blackouts to prevent wildfires OKed
California regulators Thursday approved PG&E Corp.’s plan to impose blackouts this summer across large swaths of its territory to prevent major wildfires — and told customers don’t count on reliable electric service as the fire season gets underway.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 23, 2019
Xcel Energy Acknowledges that Natural Gas is Vital for Future Energy Economy
Xcel Energy, the largest utility provider in Colorado, acknowledged this week that it will need to use natural gas to hit its zero-emissions goals by 2050.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 22, 2019
Green New Deal Physics Simply Can’t and Won’t Work
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … Green New Deal physics, that is to say, the physics required to implement the foolish ideas of juvenile green energy utopians, simply do not exist.- 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