NYISO Misleads on Wind Energy When It Could Have Done Much Better

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NIMBYismRoger Caiazza
Independent Researcher and Publisher,
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

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NYISO is doing political correctness when it ought to be doing education; the utility companies it represents know they can pass the costs onto consumers.

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) issued a press release on December 17, 2019 announcing a new wind generation record for the state.  I disagree with the tenor of the press release and this post explains why I think it is inappropriate.  It was a lost opportunity to educate the public about the magnitude of the effort needed to meet the State’s ambitious clean energy goals.

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Pavillion Study Destroys Long-Standing Fractivist Myth

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Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Pavillion, Wyoming has been a star in the fractivist sky for some time. It made a feature-performer out of Gasland hero John Fenton, but the star has fallen.

The Wyoming County Department of Environmental Quality has studied Pavillion, the site of one of the greatest of fractivist myths, for six long years and just concluded, for the second time, that natural gas development is not responsible for groundwater issues in that community. A final report titled Final Pavilion, Wyoming Gas Field Domestic Water Wells Report on Recommendations for Further Investigation was recently released this week. It’s the end of the road for anyone taking John Fenton, Josh Fox or Desmog Blog seriously.

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Hard Facts 2019: The Institute of Energy Research Annual Datafest

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Hard Facts 2019 is the latest compendium of energy facts and statistics put out by the Institute of Energy Research and it is packed full of data you need.

Energy has been the driving force behind the massive improvements in human living standards that began nearly 200 years ago. Affordable, reliable energy is the foundation of a free and prosperous society because it is essential to everything that makes progress and opportunity possible.

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Dark Fiber Project in Bradford County Another Plum from Natural Gas Tree

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Johnny Williams
Bradford County Writer

 

High capacity dark fiber internet infrastructure is being planned for Bradford County, thanks to the Marcellus gas impact fee and some innovative leaders.

If you live in the rural countryside and all you want for Christmas is a faster Internet connection, you might just be in luck sooner than you think.

Several weeks ago, I had the privilege of sitting in on a meeting between a number of local Bradford County officials and federal USDA representatives, who discussed a large variety of things pertaining to energy development both here in rural Pennsylvania and across the country.

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Shale Gas News – December 21, 2019

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Bill desRosiers
External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas

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The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Banpu, wind power, co-tenancy and much more last week.

The Shale Gas News has grown again; welcome Gem 104 as our FOURTH station! Gem 104 helps to solidify the Shale Gas News coverage in an important Marcellus region, PA’s northern tier. The Shale Gas News is now broadcasting in Bradford, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Luzerne, Lycoming, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga and Wayne Counties, as well as in greater central PA. The Shale Gas News is aired on Saturday or Sunday depending on the station.

Every Saturday Rusty Fender and I host a morning radio show to discuss all things natural gas. Last week we held a Think About Energy briefing in Fogelsville which featured Allentown and Lehigh County Representative Peter Schweyer as a keynote speaker. We replayed his speech where he spoke about the valuable knowledge he has gained about the natural gas industry throughout his term.

Another interview we replayed is from the Think About Energy Briefing last week from State College. Hal Gee is the Vice President of Energy Development with Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc.

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Clean Air is Here, Whether Activists Want to Believe it or Not

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Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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The EPA came out with an online report titled simply “Our Nation’s Air.” It should make all environmentalists smile. It won’t, of course, but clean air is here.

Too many of the more extreme members of that group today want issues more than they desire real progress. Yet, the data is undeniable; clean air has, by any reasonable real-world measure, been achieved to a remarkable extent.

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Think About Energy Goes to Fogelsville, Talks Workforce Development

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George Stark
Director, External Affairs at Cabot Oil & Gas

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The Think About Energy program rolled into Fogelsville, Pennsylvania the other day and the discussion was all about education and workforce development.

In the past decade, Pennsylvania has grown to be the second largest producer of natural gas in the nation. The rise in production not only helps nourish increasing consumption, but it has positive impacts on today’s workforce, environment, and economy. In fact, according to the 2019 U.S. Energy and Employment Report, the traditional and energy efficiency sectors added 152,000 jobs to the market in 2018, contributing to an approximate 6.7 million jobs in the traditional energy workforce.

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Tom Linzey and His CELDF at War Over Corporate Greed

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Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Tom Linzey founded the CELDF so he wouldn’t need to get a job and could rant about corporate greed. Now he’s the prime example, say CELDF staff suing him!

When the Allegheny Defense Project’s Ryan Talbott took a position on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) board in 2016, he said the following:

“I’m excited to get to work with local communities to protect the rights of their residents and nature from corporate greed.”

Three years later, Ryan Talbott has apparently left the board and the staff is suing one its founders, the notorious Tom Linzey, for what can only be described as an especially egregious case of corporate greed on his own part if the accusations are true.

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Why Wind Power Is Non-Competitive. It’s the Subsidies, Stupid!

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energy futuresRobert Bradley, Jr.
Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research
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Wind power Is simply non-competitive, incapable of surviving without taxpayer funded Production Tax Credits, despite the claims of green eggs and scam folks.

The governmental quest to make wind competitive as grid electricity rests on historical and theoretical sand. Historically, it has been believed that wind power is a young industry, requiring outsized tax preferences, bureaucratic R&D, and sales guarantees to rival fossil-fuel-generated electricity. Theoretically, it was believed that large-scale production from such protectionism would make wind competitive enough to remove the subsidies.

In fact, industrial-size wind turbines have a long history of entrepreneurial effort, and their technologies are as dependent on taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies today as they were several decades ago. (The essay “The Economic Fall and Political Rise of Renewable Energy” fills in much of this history.)

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