- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- June 1, 2021
China Putting America in Rare Earth Mineral and Green Energy Squeeze
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: China is on a mission to leverage its dominance in rare earth minerals production to put the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 22, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – May 22, 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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- May 19, 2021
RGGI Is A Strategic Blunder for Pennsylvania for Three Huge Reasons
germany … …[Editor’s Note: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) may be well-intended, but it suffers from fatal flaws that make it a harmful threat to Pennsylvanians.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 1, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – May 1, 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.Liar Cuomo: A Dark Prince of Deception or Lost in A Forest of Falsehoods?
Victor FurmanUpstate New York Landowner, Shale Gas Activist …. …. [Editor’s Note: Liar Cuomo has been playing games so long Vic Furman is convinced the governor doesn’t know when he’s lying or what he really thinks of gas.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 24, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 24, 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
- Blog
- April 14, 2021
Wind and Solar Are Intermittent and Incapable of Meeting Our Needs
Ron SteinAuthor, Engineer and Founder of PTS Advance .. …. [Editor’s Note: Wind and solar may address demands for green virtue signaling opportunities but can’t truly meet the needs natural gas is able to satisfy.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 14, 2021
PJM Grid Subject to Texas Style Blackouts If We Go Too Green
Gordon TombSenior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation .. …. [Editor’s Note: The PJM grid is at great risk. It is threatened by the green virtue signaling of politicians such as Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 10, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – April 10, 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
- Blog
- April 7, 2021
Biodiversity Destruction from Wind and Solar Being Ignored
biodiversityTom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. [Editor’s Note: It’s about the land and the species that depend on it, including our.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 1, 2021
Wind and Solar, Though Little, Require Big Energy to Back Them Up
David Wojick, PhDIndependent Analyst … … … [Editor’s Note: Depending on weather-dependent energy takes not only big money but big dispatchable sources of energy when wind and solar do not produce!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2021
Confessions of a Reformed Environmental Guy from Upstate New York
Chris DentonAttorney, Elmira, New York … … [Editor’s Note: Attorney Chris Denton from Upstate New York confesses that he has returned to being a conversationist, a reformed environmentalist.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 29, 2021
Natural Gas Power Generation Protects Our Independence
John J. FasoFormer U.S. Rep. for NY 19th Congressional DistrictEnergy Consultant. .… … [Editor’s Note: Removing natural gas from the generating mix will leave New York State battery dependent and extremely vulnerable on every level.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- March 15, 2021
Social Cost of Carbon? It’s Yet Another Phony Idea to Promote Scams!
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. [Editor’s Note: Social cost of carbon? Banning carbon-based fuels will impose enormous costs the Biden administration deliberately and totally ignores.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- March 8, 2021
Electric Vehicles: A Fantasy of the Rich Subsidized by the Rest of Us
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. [Editor’s Note: Electric vehicles are trendy but not very Earth-friendly, affordable or emission-free, for that matter; no, they’re just taxpayer-subsidized virtue signaling.].- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- March 1, 2021
Fossil Fuel Fears Blind Those Seeking Green Energy Nirvana to Reality
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
- Blog, Fracking, Natural Gas Prices
- February 13, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – February 13, 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
- Blog
- 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
- Blog
- 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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- 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
- Blog
- 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
- Blog
- 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
- Blog
- 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 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
- Blog
- October 2, 2020
GFG Alliance, Ignis to build 1.2GW of green energy in Spain
Global conglomerate GFC Alliance and Spain’s renewables developer, Ignis, announced Thursday a deal to build 1.2 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity in Spain.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- October 2, 2020
Construction begins at world’s largest floating offshore wind farm
Equinor started on Thursday the construction of the first floating offshore wind farm to power oil and gas installations, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 29, 2020
S.2657: The Ugly Underbelly of An Especially Bad Senate Bill
John Droz, Jr.Physicist & Citizen AdvocateAlliance for Wise Energy Decisions … John Droz effectively lays out the ugly nature of S.2657, an especially bad Senate bill epitomizing the smell of the Federal swamp.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 21, 2020
Nordex tapped for 312MW US wind farm
German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has secured a contract to supply turbines to a wind farm located in Texas, U.S., Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 10, 2020
Latam set for renewables capacity boom by 2025: Rystad
Renewable energy capacity in Latin America (Latam) is set to rise to 123 gigawatts (GW) over the next five years, according to new analysis from Rystad Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 3, 2020
Solar power generation leads the way in 2019: BNEF
Solar photovoltaic (PV) accounted for nearly half of all new power generation capacity installed during 2019, according to a new report by BloombergNEF (BNEF).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- September 2, 2020
Chevron Speaks Truth to Greenout Power: Oil and Gas IS the Future
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: As Bob Bradley explains, Chevron is speaking truth to the politically correct powers who want to milk “green energy” for all it’s worth.]Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 29, 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
- Blog
- August 28, 2020
New offshore wind capacity of 2.5GW in operation during H1 2020
An additional 2.5 gigawatts of new offshore wind capacity was added during the first half of 2020, according to the World Forum Offshore Wind (WFO), Kallanish Energy reports.Natural Gas Power Makes America Move Like A “Tremendous Machine”
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas power dominates in every way, fueling so much of everything about our lives today as it has made the electricity vital to us all.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 27, 2020
California Power Crisis Generates Excuses and More Excuses
Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Bob Bradley nails the very real problem inherent in the California power crisis; the failure of its architects to acknowledge the reality.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 22, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 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
- Blog
- August 20, 2020
RWE raises €2B to boost renewables growth
German utility RWE raised on Tuesday €2 billion ($2.4 billion) of new capital to accelerate and expand its renewables growth, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 14, 2020
Germany and It’s Green Utopian Plans Turn Into Dystopian Debacle
Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: The IER’s Alexander Stevens explains the implosion of the green utopia planned by Germany, a program requiring ever more corrections.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2020
Wind, solar plants supply 10% of global power in H1
Wind and solar energy have generated 9.8% of the world’s electricity during the first half of the year, a new analysis by UK think tank Ember showed on Thursday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- August 12, 2020
China Is the Enemy and Renewables Mean Dependency On China
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. A great report issued last month by Power the Future highlights a huge problem for green energy schemes; they depend on China, our enemy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 9, 2020
Fossil Fuel vs. Ecologically Destructive and Unsustainable Green Energy
Paul DriessenCommittee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. Fossil fuel energy sources are hammered for risks but ecologically destructive and completely unsustainable “green” energy is getting away with everything.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- July 6, 2020
Global renewables capacity up 7.5% in 2019: IRENA
Global renewable energy capacity increased 7.5% year-on-year in 2019, led by growth from solar and wind sources, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- June 22, 2020
Pipeline Case Reveals the Non-Caring Elitist Agenda of Greens
Paul Driessen Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The recent Supreme Court decision in the case of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline reveals the true very non-green political agenda of those who say they’re green.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2020
Growth in global renewables consumption offers ‘pivotal moment’: BP
The continued increase in global use of renewable energies could provide a “pivotal moment” following the Covid-19 pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- June 18, 2020
Iberdrola starts ‘friendly takeover’ of Australia’s Infigen
Spanish renewables giant Iberdrola announced Wednesday it has launched a takeover bid for Australia’s renewables company Infigen Energy for roughly €510 ($572.3) million, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- June 16, 2020
Capitalism, Nor Cronyism, Is What We Need; Especially in Energy
Robert Bradley, Jr. Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Crony capitalism or real capitalism?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2020
PGNiG to plans $1.02B investments in wind, solar PV
Polish oil and gas company PGNiG is planning to invest up to $1.02 billion in renewable energy over the next few years, as it decides to include renewables in its business strategy, Kalanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- June 1, 2020
Virginia Adopts Policy of Destroying Villages to Save Them
Paul Driessen Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow …. …. The Virginia Clean Economy Act force residents to finance private solar facilities on nearly 500 square miles of crop, scenic and wildlife habitat lands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- May 30, 2020
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – May 30, 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
- Blog
- May 21, 2020
Renewables installations to shrink 13% this year: IEA
Renewables’ new capacity additions are forecast to drop 13% this year to 167 gigawatts (GW) due to the Covid-19 crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 8, 2020
Iberdrola buys French renewables company Aalto Power
Spanish renewables operator Iberdrola said on Thursday it has acquired France’s renewables company Aalto Power, adding 754 megawatts (MW) to its portfolio.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 16, 2020
Australia’s renewables industry faces further delays
Australia’s renewables industry has been hit “hard” by the Covid-19 pandemic, with an estimated 3,000 megawatts (MW) of wind and solar photovoltaic projects at risk.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 10, 2020
The Absolute and Amazing Futility of New York Energy Policy
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … New York energy policy today constitutes nothing less than reckless endangerment of life’s necessities for the Empire State; dependable heat and energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 9, 2020
AREGCBA Is An Exercise in Diving Into A Pool With No Water
Roger Caiazza Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … AREGCBA isn’t Andrew Cuomo clearing his throat. It’s New York’s leadership diving into a swimming before checking to see if there’s any water in it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 7, 2020
Renewables make 72% of new powergen capacity in 2019
Renewable energy accounted for 72% of all power expansion in 2019, with deployment reaching 176 gigawatts (GW), the International Renewable Energy Agency said on Monday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- April 3, 2020
France grants 1,700MW of new solar, wind capacity
French ecology ministry has approved 1,700 megawatts (MW) of new renewables capacity, along with other measures to support the sector amid the coronavirus crisis.- 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 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
- Blog
- March 6, 2020