Natural Gas, Which Saved the Day, Blamed by NERC?

Natural Gas, Which Saved the Day, Blamed by NERC?

NGLJim Willis on NGL Pipelines
Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN)

 

[Editor’s Note: NERC, the North American Energy Reliability Corporation, has put out a report that seems to blame natural gas for an almost blackout last year but it isn’t so.]

Less than a year ago, the Northeast experienced a major winter storm at Christmastime (Winter Storm Elliott). Do you remember it? On Dec. 23, temps in places like the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania hit 60 degrees! Within 12 hours, the bottom dropped out, with temps plunging into the single digits—a more than 50-degree change. Dec. 24’s high temp in the Lehigh Valley (Allentown) was 13 degrees.

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 23, 2023

Natural Gas Now Best Picks – September 23, 2023

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.

This week’s natural gas best picks: Big Cats Going, Going, the Enemy Is Us, Not Panicking Over Global Warming and much more.

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, September 22, 1923

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, September 22, 1923

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Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.

It’s fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what was happening with natural gas. It’s also eye opening, given all we’ve learned over the last century. There is, indeed, little new under the sun, as our stories repeatedly demonstrate.

There is, indeed, little new under the sun, as our stories repeatedly demonstrate. Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, September 22, 1923. Read our 100-year old news items on the cost of success, two or three fireplaces for the cost of one and the expected success of dirigibles over planes. Continue reading

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China Coal Story All About Protecting the Grift!

China Coal Story All About Protecting the Grift!

Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

Reuters, the international news company, published a very silly story suggesting China was helping the climate (which needs no help) by building coal plants. Why?

Our friend Ed Ireland has a wonderful post on his “Thoughts About Energy and Economics” regarding China and how the climate cult is deliberately averting its eyes from what CCP is doing in building ever more coal plants. I encourage all to read it as it shows China is totally ignoring the cult behind the scenes while it pretends to be an ally for the press. One has to grudgingly admire the CCP for the boldness of its big lie strategy because the real villain here is an institutional media that has been corrupted beyond belief.

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Biden Shamelessly Attacks Oil and Gas on Over 150 Fronts!

Biden Shamelessly Attacks Oil and Gas on Over 150 Fronts!

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[Editor’s Note: Joe Biden has relentlessly attacked the American consumer by relentlessly attacking oil and gas. Scan this IER list for the more than 150 ways in just 970 days.]

Joe Biden and Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase. Since Mr. Biden took office, his administration and its allies have taken over 150 actions deliberately designed to make it harder to produce energy here in America. A list of those actions, which includes a few high-profile actions taken in states like New York and California, appears below. A PDF of the full list is available to download here.

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Weather Isn’t Climate and Climate Isn’t Weather!

Weather Isn’t Climate and Climate Isn’t Weather!

NIMBYismRoger Caiazza (on the subject of)
Independent Researcher and Publisher,
Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York

 

[Editor’s Note: Climate advocates are constantly utilizing weather, rather than science, to rationalize their essentially political positions regarding global warming.]

A couple of articles came to my attention recently that exemplify the mainstream narrative that climate change impacts are pervasive and catastrophic.  Both make the fundamental mistake of confusing weather and climate.  At the same time, I read two other articles that explained why the propaganda supporting the mainstream narrative is so pervasive.   This article highlights those stories because they are relevant to the rationale for New York’s Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (Climate Act).

I have been following the Climate Act since it was first proposed, submitted comments on the Climate Act implementation plan, and have written over 350 articles about New York’s net-zero transition.  I have devoted a lot of time to the Climate Act because I believe the ambitions for a zero-emissions economy embodied in the Climate Act outstrip available renewable technology such that the net-zero transition will do more harm than good.  The opinions expressed in this post do not reflect the position of any of my previous employers or any other company I have been associated with, these comments are mine alone.

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RGGI Tax on Pennsylvanians Spiked Again in Huge Victory

RGGI Tax on Pennsylvanians Spiked Again in Huge Victory

NGLJim Willis on NGL Pipelines
Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN)

 

[Editor’s Note: Pennsylvanians have been spared again from the RGGI tax that Democrats want to impose on them for the sake of worthless but dangerous green virtue signaling.]

Thanks to the good work of Pennsylvania’s Senate Republicans, residents and ratepayers across the Commonwealth have been spared a spike in their electricity rates for a seventh time. The state just missed the latest so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) “auction” that forces coal- and gas-fired power plants to pay obscenely high taxes to continue operating. As a bonus, missing the auction denies Democrats in Harrisburg millions of dollars in play money they can line their pockets with (and line the pockets of those who support them). That’s called a win/win!

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