Thought Piece My major complaint against (now former) Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has always been that he used extra-legal (at best) bullying tactics, not unlike former AG and disgraced Governor Elliot Spitzer. O.K. I have several complaints with Mr. Schneiderman: He has been ruthlessly political, overly arrogant, imperially ambitious, utterly shameless, and essentially lawless. I first [...]
Orion Energy Systems Chosen to Present At The 7th Annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit
Thought Piece The conversation about quantified energy efficiency and emission reductions is as important now as it was a decade ago. I believe that my Wall Street Presentation is also available through this link, but if not I would be happy to send you a copy. In a fractured world where scare tactics work, I cannot [...]
Familiar Flaws Invalidate Research Team’s Latest Attempt to Link Fracking to Health Issues
Thought Piece Can bad science reiterated 4 times be an improvement? It is becoming harder and harder to ignore the Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s quote: “To do evil, a human being must first of all believe that what he is doing is good.” by Seth Whitehead May 2, 2018 A new study released Tuesday [...]
UN Forest Accounting Loophole Allows CO2 Underreporting by EU, UK, US
Though Piece Currently, the European Union (EU) and its Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) are being embarrassed in public: More politics than energy efficient. In 2005, the EU created a market for greenhouse gas emissions, but the last 13 years has shown the ETS’ many flaws, especially the perennial low trading prices. The following article is testament [...]
How Bad Is the Labor Shortage? Cities Will Pay You to Move There
Thought Piece How Bad Is the Labor Shortage? Cities Will Pay You to Move There Jim Willis wrote about the 8 or 10 new natural gas power plants which are planned in Michigan and Ohio to replace old coal plants. This employment fits perfectly into the Midwest’s re-emergence as a manufacturing powerhouse, large petrochemical industry, regional [...]
Judge’s Bombshell Filing Confirms Climate Conspiracy Against Energy Industry
Thought Piece Spenser Walrath has written an interesting group of pieces this weekend about the confirmation of climate groups and their “climate conspiracy against energy industry.” It's harder and harder to find a trustworthy voice these days. Like the evolution of “global warming,” it all depends on who is choosing the words, the "relevant facts" and [...]
The impact of recent forcing and ocean heat uptake data on estimates of climate sensitivity
Thought Piece The Clean Power Plan and EU-Emission Trading Scheme are great examples of environmental extremism, faulty constitutional thinking, media manipulation, extensive use of executive orders, moral rectitude, name-calling, populist rhetoric, ideological purity, demonization of the opposition, total inability to negotiate with any opposition to the “settled science,”, poor understanding of basic economics development and no [...]
Penn State to Help Create New Biz Opportunities from Shell Cracker
Thought Piece Not unlike the University System of North Dakota, the University System of Pennsylvania has started programs to train and education their students to prepare them for new Shell Cracker jobs. With Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania forming the Tri-State Shale Coalition to maximize the benefits of natural gas resources, the region expects to build [...]
New Cabot Drilling Program Kicks Off This Week in Ashland, OH
Thought Piece This is great news for north central Ohio. We will finally find out the quality of the shale there. In the case of Cabot, they are putting their money where their mouth is. Several of the counties surrounding Ashland are embracing the Shale Revolution for its economic development prospects. Sadly, the coalition of Ohio [...]
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Appalachia Markets Itself as Global Energy Hub Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia want to transform the Appalachian Basin into an oil and gas powerhouse. GalleryAppalachia Markets Itself as Global Energy Hub Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia want to transform the Appalachian Basin into an oil and gas powerhouse.
Appalachia Markets Itself as Global Energy Hub Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia want to transform the Appalachian Basin into an oil and gas powerhouse.
Thought Piece With no regard for Dennis Kucinich’s Magical Misery Tour, the Governors from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia have realized that a collaboration between the three states will make them into a “Global Energy Hub.” While realizing that economic development and sound environmentalism are inseparable, the three Governors have shunned the “leave it in the [...]