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While you were focused on the pandemic, Israel approved a pipeline to supply Europe with natural gas
We have been following the development of Israel’s natural gas resources for years, and in rather dramatic fashion.
In March 2013, we wrote, Yesterday the Middle East changed forever, and you didn’t know it:
Biden Attacks Energy Sector: No More Drilling, No New Fracking
2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden moved to the left during Tuesday’s debate. He did this despite having a decent lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Biden may have damaged his chances in key swing states by going after the energy sector.
Natural Gas-starved NY State supply pipeline project abandoned after Gov. Cuomo vowed “any way that we can challenge it, we will”
The State of New York has a natural gas shortage, the result of years of the administration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and environmentalists fighting the construction of new supply pipelines.
A June 2019 report by The Manhattan Institute documented the shortage and its causes, Out of Gas: New York’s Blocked...
While you were focused on Soleimani, Israel became a natural gas superpower
In March 2013, I noted that Israel’s discovery and development of huge offshore natural gas fields was a game-changer, putting Israel on course to become an energy superpower.
At that time, the field that had just come on line was the Tamar field. I wrote, Yesterday the Middle East changed forever, and you...
Trump Admin to End War on Incandescent Light Bulbs
The war on cheap incandescent light bulbs began with the Bush administration and was expanded by the Obama administration. Team Trump is now preparing to end the madness.
Biden Says Willing to Sacrifice Hundreds of Thousands of Energy Workers for a Green Economy
The issues of energy and climate change came up at the Democratic debate on Thursday night as expected. What was surprising, was Joe Biden’s response when asked about displacing American energy workers for the sake of fighting climate change.
As Extinction Rebellion Heads to the Middle East, OPEC Rejects Climate Crisis Antics
The climate cult group known as Extinction Rebellion is now taking its city-shutdown antics to the Middle East.
Off-shoots of the group that advocates peaceful protest as a way to pile on pressure to curb global warming are sprouting from Beirut to Doha, as activists in the oil-rich region want governments to...
Warren and Other Dems Call for Fracking Ban — Do they WANT to lose Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania?
2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have already declared they want to ban fracking as a way to fight climate change. Others have said they would find ways to phase it out.
Deep research into America without fracking finds an unhealthy economy plus millions without jobs.
US Department of Energy officials rebrand fossil fuels as ‘molecules of freedom’ & ‘freedom gas’
A couple of weeks ago, I noted the green justice advocates were planning to rebrand “climate change” to “climate disaster” in order to gin up hysteria and fear.
Lamar Alexander calls for “New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy” to Counter Green New Deal
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander (R) is offering his own “New Manhattan Project” as an alternative to the “Green New Deal” to provide Americans with renewable, “clean energy” options.
Russia Pushes Ahead with New Gas Pipeline to Europe
Weeks after getting the European Union’s approval for a gas pipeline across the Baltic Sea, Russia is moving ahead with its plans to construct a new Black Sea pipeline into Western Europe. Moscow intends to extend the existing Turk Stream pipeline that links Russia and Turkey to supply Western Europe with gas,...
EU Seeks to End Dollar ‘Monopoly’ in Oil Trade
The European Union wants to challenge the longstanding dominance of the U.S. dollar in oil trade, the French broadcaster EuroNews reported. Brussels has created a working group comprising of representatives from European trade and industry to “challenge the dominance of the dollar” in energy trade and promote the use of euro to price oil...
Did forced focus on green energy lead to California’s devastating wildfires?
Last November, large sections of California became a hellscape as wildfires devastated areas that have suffered drought conditions, overgrown brush, and environmental restrictions that prohibited appropriate forest management plans from being implemented.
Little Rhode Island sues Big Oil over Climate Change
Recently, I reported that that U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California tossed out the lawsuits that the cities of Oakland and San Francisco filed last fall against six fossil fuel giants. The two cities were seeking to hold the oil companies liable for the cost of...
Trump’s science envoy, a Hillary Clinton appointed UC Berkeley prof, resigns.
The dramatic resignation of the Obama-era holdovers from President Trump’s administration continue, as a UC Berkeley professor who was the science envoy for the State Department officially gave his notice.
A prominent UC Berkeley energy professor resigned his post with the U.S. State Department on Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s...
Pennsylvania Nuns Build Chapel to Block Gas Pipeline
The Catholic nuns of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ in West Hempfield, PA, have built an open air chapel on their land as a last effort to stop a company from building a natural gas pipeline on their property. From Philly.com:
A federal judge agreed this month that the pipeline’s...
