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Guest “Explanatory Reporting” by David Middleton Hat tip to Kip Hansen for bringing this to my attention. Despite Their Promises, Giant Energy Companies Burn Away Vast Amounts of Natural Gas By Hiroko TabuchiOct....

From Foreign Policy The new pipeline won’t deliver energy security. It will make the EU more dependent on a capricious Russia. By Mikhail Korchemkin| October 7, 2019, 6:24 PM There is something Orwellian about the...

From HOT AIR There’s been a standoff between New York City and utility company National Grid going on since May of this year. As you may recall, plans for a new natural gas pipeline from New Jersey were killed off by the...

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter October 09, 2019 2:00 PM ET Massachusetts’ past reliance on Russian natural gas to keep citizens warm in the winter could cause some damage to Sen...

Guest cheer leading by David Middleton USGS Estimates 214 trillion Cubic Feet of Natural Gas in Appalachian Basin Formations Release Date: OCTOBER 3, 2019 The Marcellus Shale and Point Pleasant-Utica Shale formations of the...

Guest cheer leading by David Middleton Florida has led the nation in the addition of natural gas-fired electricity generation capacity over the past decade, by a very wide margin...

Guest “are you fracking kidding me?” by David Middleton Researchers unearth cost-effective method for finding shale gasNew method approximates available gas in untapped areas of Marcellus Shale region using well...

Guest zero-point-zero by David Middleton Offshore oil and gas rigs leak more greenhouse gas than expectedJohn Sullivan, Office of Engineering CommunicationsAug...

Guest “picking a fight with both sides” by David Middleton JUL 15, 2019EPA Drilling Regulations Remain Underrated Obstacle to Solving Global Warming William MurrayManager, Energy Meeting the goals of the 2015...

Tesla has launched a new utility-scale energy storage product called Megapack modeled after the giant battery system it deployed in South Australia as the company seeks to provide an alternative to natural gas “peaker”...

Guest “you couldn’t make this sort of schist up if you were trying” by David Middleton H/T to Chuck Wortman… One of America’s oldest power companies is going carbon free By Matt Egan, CNN BusinessUpdated...

The Californian city of Berkeley has become the first in the country to pass a ban on natural gas piping in new buildings, including private homes. Although it is considered cleaner than oil, natural gas is still a fossil...

Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg recently pledged to rapidly spend $500 million in a bid to push the U.S. “Beyond Carbon,” aiming to end this country’s use of coal and natural gas power in...

From The East Bay Express As the United States has begun transitioning away from the use of coal and petroleum as a source of electricity and fuel, natural gas has been viewed as a relatively benign fossil fuel...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the face of the embarrassing failure of European renewables to reduce CO2 emissions, greens appear to be ramping up attacks on the alleged climate impacts of natural gas...