New Yorkers Grapple with the Real Life Impacts of Pipeline Opposition

Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … …  An article in LoHud exposes the real life impacts of pipeline opposition and the lack of critical thinking abilities on the part of so many New Yorkers. Yesterday, I noted a Westchester County, New York Assemblywoman by the name of Amy Paulin was experiencing some sort of awakening with respect to the impacts of Andrew Cuomo’s maddening pipeline opposition.
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The Real Cost of Pipeline Obstruction to the Northeast

Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc.   The real cost of pipeline obstruction to New York and New England is becoming ever more clear in natural gas spot prices as compared to the Midwest. It gets more clear ever day; pipeline obstruction  is imposing an extraordinarily heavy cost of the middle class residents of New York and New England.
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Fractivists Don’t Really Give A Damn About Climate Change

Keep It Grounded In Fact (American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers)      Fractivists not only won’t recognize natural gas contributions to reducing emissions but now reject even carbon capture; talk about climate change denial! The centerpiece of the Green New Deal proposal is the promise of “a jobs guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one.” This federally guaranteed jobs program—which seeks to retrofit the nation’s energy, transportation, and housing infrastructure to prepare it for a “post-carbon era”—is inordinately popular with the general public.
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Mariner East 2 Pipeline Begins Safe Operations, Contrary to Critics’ Claims

Kurt Knaus Spokesman Pennsylvania Energy Infrastructure Alliance … … The Mariner East 2 pipeline has begun operation and it will be safe, contrary to all those false claims of its ginned up special interest opponents. As Pennsylvanians celebrated the holidays and rang in a new year, the Mariner East pipeline projects hit another landmark when Energy Transfer Partners announced on Dec.
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Trends To Watch In 2019

What is not uncertain is capital—there is plenty of it but a lot is sitting on the sidelines. “Private equity investors are trying to think beyond the standard playbook,” Cliff Vrielink, co-managing partner of Sidley Austin LP’s Houston office and co-leader of the law firm’s global energy practice, told Hart Energy.
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