Banpu, Thai Energy Outfit, Invests in Pennsylvania Shale Revolution

Jim Willis
Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN)

 

Banpu is a Thai energy company that has been buying up shale resources in Northeastern Pennsylvania, has built new offices here and is investing in Texas.

Thailand’s largest coal producer, Banpu, is also a growing investor/operator in the northeast Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale. In June MDN brought you an update on a new $5 million facility being built by Banpu in Tunkhannock Township (Wyoming County), Pennsylvania. We’re happy to report last week Banpu held the grand opening of their new office/facility in Tunkhannock.

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The Grotesque Face of Global Warming Advocacy Today

Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Global warming advocacy has descended to incredible depths with a grotesque video that involves the usual fractivist suspects showing zero respect for facts.

Yesterday, one of our ever alert readers sent me a link to a Tweet featuring one of the most grotesque example of demagoguery I have ever seen. It was an outrageous political video intended to advance the cause of global warming advocacy. It also involved the usual fractivist suspects we fight here on a daily basis, demonstrating global warming advocacy isn’t about global warming at all but, rather, much more radical political agendas.

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Carbon Pricing: It Ain’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be

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

Carbon pricing has a certain appeal to people who know markets are the best way to choose in a free world but, sadly, it isn’t that simple in this case.

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) is currently campaigning for its Carbon Pricing Initiative as the preferred approach to meet the requirements of New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).  For example, they sponsored a blurb in the Politico New York Energy daily newsletter.  I have written extensively on my issues with the NYISO initiative and this post explains my concerns with carbon pricing schemes in general.

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Fair Shake? No, Just Another Heinz Shill Spending Big Daddy’s Money

Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services is a Heinz shill, just like StateImpactPA, the Clean Air Council, the Povertykeeper and whoever else money will buy.

Nobody, but nobody, has their ear closer to the ground of what’s happening in the world of natural gas here in the Northeast than our friend Jim Willis at Marcellus Drilling News. Yesterday, he picked up on the decision of Protect PT to appeal the big defeat this fractivist outfit just endured at the Commonwealth Court when the latter found Tony Ingraffea was a toothless tiger. Protect Pt is clearly just a front. How else would a local environmental group get the resources to appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court? The proof is that the appeal was filed by Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, yet another Heinz shill.

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Global Warming Facts, Fear, Foolishness and Frauds

Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

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Climate scientist Judith Curry lays out the fear, foolishness and frauds involved with the global warming debate today and a reader dispenses some facts.

No one who reads this blog regularly doesn’t understand our position on global warming; that natural gas is the solution, not the problem, with respect to any issue that does exist. I have been increasingly disturbed, though, by how the debate is evolving among those who believe global warming is a threat. That they want to simply shut down any speech contrary to their own views, rather than debate, has been long apparent.

But, now things are going fro bad to worse with increasingly shrill and ever more ridiculous warnings of impending disaster despite a long string of similar cries of wolf that didn’t materialize. We’re also seeing violence being proposed as the answer by global warmists when the rest of us just won’t go along. Well, I’m tired of it. Call me a denier, a skeptic or a danger to the planet; I really don’t care. We’re never going to resolve anything unless these global warmists are called out as charlatans. And, Judith Curry has, effectively, just done that.

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Shale Gas News – December 14, 2019

Bill desRosiers
External Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas

The Shale Gas News, heard every Saturday at 10 AM on 94.3 FM, 1510 AM and Sundays on YesFM, talked about Chevron, Christmas toy drive, ExxonMobil 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. We held another Think About Energy Briefing this week in State College. PA State Representative Kerry Benninghoff joined us as the keynote speaker. We replayed his speech on today’s show.  We also replayed an interview from Nicolas Brien of Dawood Engineering, Inc.

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The Heinz Endowments’ Big Green Assault on a Prosperous Pennsylvania

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The Heinz Endowments is the quintessential example of Big Green, Inc. and the Institute of Energy Research exposes its huge undue political influence.

The Heinz Endowments, a grantmaking organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has long been viewed in the region as a community pillar. But while the Heinz Endowments purports to fund needed, worthwhile enhancements to the wellbeing of western Pennsylvania, many of the organization’s grants do just the opposite, working to stoke baseless public fear and paint some of the region’s most vital industries as villains.

In the period from 2008 to 2016 the Heinz Endowments contributed over $120 million in environmental grants, as documented by Big Green, Inc., a project of the Institute for Energy Research. While some of the recipients are working toward meaningful environmental progress, such as in local air quality, tens of millions of dollars went to organizations more intent upon stymying economic development than furthering any justifiable conception of environmental quality.

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Williams Companies Employees Spread Some Christmas Blessings

think about energyRick Hiduk
Managing Editor of EndlessMtnLifestyles.com

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Williams Companies employees pitched in to deliver a wholev bunch of Christmas blessings to folks in Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties.

For a fifth consecutive year, employees of Williams Companies have taken it upon themselves to make sure some children they will likely never know have a happy Christmas and receive gifts they both want and need. Williams is still a relative newcomer to the annual Holiday Giving Tree project coordinated and conducted by Children’s Service Center (CSC) for several decades, but participation at the Tunkhannock office has grown annually.

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Pseudo-Science Polling Gives Global Warmists What They Paid For

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

The global warmist Barr Foundation financed pseudo-science polling intended to showcase public support for climate change initiatives but it’s hugely flawed.

I have previously posted on the Transportation Climate Initiative and its disconnect with reality. To this point its promoters and stakeholders have labored in obscurity all the while believing that they have a mandate from the public to change the transportation system significantly.  Now there is a poll out claiming that the majority of the public supports the plan.

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