New York eco-extremists vs. the middle class

Environmental agenda clashing with real energy needs for businesses and residential living.

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|2019-02-03T09:23:29-05:00February 2nd, 2019|Comments Off on New York eco-extremists vs. the middle class

‘Green, clean and affordable’ – and requiring more investigation

Bloom electricity costs about $200 per megawatt-hour – three times the price of typical coal, gas, nuclear or hydroelectric power.

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|2018-10-12T12:40:10-04:00October 12th, 2018|Comments Off on ‘Green, clean and affordable’ – and requiring more investigation

Northeastern states aren’t even close to meeting their climate goals

The Northeast pays 56 percent more for its energy than the national average and has little to show for it.

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|2018-07-26T20:35:49-04:00July 26th, 2018|Comments Off on Northeastern states aren’t even close to meeting their climate goals

America is an increasingly minor CO2 emitter

The United States and Western democracies as a whole are increasingly minor players among global carbon dioxide emitters, U.S. EPA data show. Without dramatic emissions reductions in China, India, and other developing nations, dramatic reductions in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan will have little impact on global carbon dioxide emissions. According to EPA data (https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data), the United States, Western Europe, and Japan account for a cumulative 28% of global carbon dioxide emissions. China alone accounts for 30%, India accounts for 7%, and the rest of the world cumulatively accounts for 35%. The share of global emissions from the United [...]

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|2018-06-02T08:21:34-04:00June 4th, 2018|Comments Off on America is an increasingly minor CO2 emitter

Apologies to New England for Cuomo raising energy prices

Republican Sen. Robert Ortt of New York criticized the state’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday for unambiguously opposing natural gas production while citizens contend with rolling blackouts and expensive energy prices.

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|2018-06-02T07:57:19-04:00June 2nd, 2018|Comments Off on Apologies to New England for Cuomo raising energy prices

Reuters: China Seeks More Imports to Meet Natural Gas Demand

China is turning to natural gas power to fight urban smog but only produces about half as much natural gas as it needs.

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|2018-04-20T17:49:08-04:00April 20th, 2018|Comments Off on Reuters: China Seeks More Imports to Meet Natural Gas Demand

Those fraudulent climate litigation shakedowns

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen warns that the impending lawsuits against oil and gas companies -- created by corrupt city governments as a last-gasp hope for escaping bankruptcy -- pose grave danger for the U.S. economy should these cities succeed. Yet, says Driessen, the very premises of these suits suggests they should be thrown out of court.

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|2018-03-08T15:58:54-05:00March 8th, 2018|Comments Off on Those fraudulent climate litigation shakedowns

Lease the OCS – to benefit all Americans

As CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen explains, federal revenues from offshore drilling fell from $18 billion in 2008 to just $2.5 billion in 2016 thanks largely to Obama era policies while state revenues from closer-in rigs went up. The Trump-Zinke proposal would open federal waters (outside the 3-mile limit) to drilling, with huge potential revenues and contributions to national security. The planning and evaluation process, Driessen argues, should not be impeded.

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|2018-02-10T15:43:18-05:00February 10th, 2018|Comments Off on Lease the OCS – to benefit all Americans

A little slice of Alaskan tundra is finally open for drilling

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen extols the benefits of the opening some 2,000 acres of the huge Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to exploration and drilling for oil and gas. The potential for the region is at least 15 billion gallons of oil a year - more than enough to keep the Trans-Alaska Pipeline up and running for a long time to come.

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|2017-12-31T03:28:45-05:00December 31st, 2017|1 Comment

CFACT tours fracking rigs in NW Pennsylvania: Will government shut them down?

The shale energy revolution if bringing true energy security to America, yet small businesses have almost been driven out of business by regulations from the federal EPA and PA State Department of Environmental Protection.

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|2017-12-20T23:10:16-05:00December 20th, 2017|7 Comments

Keystone is anti-hydrocarbon zealotry in microcosm

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen laments the long, arduous battle to open the Keystone XL pipeline -- an action that would eliminate the need for 1,225 railroad tanker cars per day (450,000 per year) or 3,500 semi-trailer tanker trucks daily (1,275,000 annually) that currently transport oil to refineries, saving lives and costs and creating jobs in rural America. Driessen also recounts the many ways that fossil fuels enrich humanity -- from feed stocks for paints, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and other products to powering the manufacturing centers that create computers, smart phones, healthcare technologies, vehicles, and batteries.

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|2017-12-15T11:28:28-05:00December 10th, 2017|1 Comment

Sharing our blessings

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen wishes the entire world a happy time of thanksgiving -- for the fossil fuels, hydroelectric power, and other contributions to reliable, affordable energy that has powered a dramatic shift in life expectancy and standards of living and world health, lifting billions out of poverty. He further challenges us to extend these blessings to the billions who even today lack the blessings of energy, in part because of elitist, eco-imperialist refusal to underwrite the financing of anything but renewable energy that is unreliable, expensive, and only in some cases the best (short-term) option.

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|2017-11-26T10:43:49-05:00November 26th, 2017|13 Comments

Nebraska approval means Keystone will finally be built – or not

In an article published in The Hill, CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen reports that the 3-2 vote by the Nebraska Public Service Commission to approve a new route through the state for the long-delayed Keystone Pipeline may or may not signal completion of the pipeline is near. Read the excerpt here, and the full article in The Hill.

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|2017-11-22T16:45:38-05:00November 22nd, 2017|1 Comment

Virginia goes Don Quixote

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen, a Virginia resident, laments the direction that newly elected Governor Ralph Northam is taking the people of the state -- into restrictions on carbon dioxide that include cap-and-trade emissions buying and selling -- and other foolish schemes that will harm the poor and lower middle classes the most and do little or nothing to change the Earth's climate.

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|2017-11-18T20:55:34-05:00November 18th, 2017|1 Comment

As Trump ends the “War on Fossil Fuels,” we all win

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen lauds President Trump and his administration for rolling back Obama era restrictions on fossil fuels that had already hurt the U.S. economy -- the rollbacks should unleash massive economic growth and create lots of jobs.

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|2017-11-15T11:50:29-05:00November 15th, 2017|Comments Off on As Trump ends the “War on Fossil Fuels,” we all win
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