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The WaPo has another sound energy-related editorial this morning (remember they've been pro-Keystone XL pipeline from the beginning). This one is on natural gas exporting, and the hook is the local terminal at Cove Point, owned ...
Posted Monday, May 7th, 2012 at 6:34 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Natural Gas
Strange editorial in today's WaPo on natural gas and global warming. The Post poses the question: "Will natural gas hinder the fight against global warming?"
The clear answer is yes, unless leakage rates from natural gas ...
Posted Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 7:09 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Natural Gas
Widely reported is the news that natural gas futures in the US broke the $2 floor and were down to $1.984 per million British thermal units (Btu) yesterday for May delivery. And that's the Henry Hub price; in the Rockies, the pr...
Posted Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at 5:52 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Supply, Natural Gas
Daniel Gilbert and Russell Gold reported Saturday in the WSJ on some more good news in the world of US shale gas:
The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its claim that an energy company contaminated drinking water in T...
Posted Monday, April 2nd, 2012 at 11:05 am | Filed in: Environment, Natural Gas, Policy, Uncategorized
Does cheap natural gas represent an unalloyed good for American energy security and economic health? Or is it an easy quick fix, lulling us into a false sense of security that will prove damaging down the road? Those are the q...
Posted Monday, March 26th, 2012 at 6:47 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas, Policy, Renewables
Two recent articles remind us of the importance of energy security and the impact of geopolitics on that security. First, on Saturday, the WSJ reported that Russia is cutting natural gas exports to Europe due to high domestic de...
Posted Monday, February 6th, 2012 at 5:00 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas, Oil
Sunday's NYT had a thoughtful piece on the latest revision by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of their estimates about the U.S. natural gas resource base.
As Ian Urbina reported:
The agency estimated that there...
Posted Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 7:00 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Natural Gas, Policy
Two articles in the Sunday NYT bookended the concept of intervening in energy markets to advance public policy goals or correct market failures. One, entitled "Lobbyist Helps a Project He Financed in Congress," will be more Soly...
Posted Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 7:02 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Energy Demand, Legislation, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy, Renewables
Multiple WSJ articles this morning with implications for natural gas -- and one in Bloomberg worth paying attention to.
First, in "Glut Hits Natural-Gas Prices," the WSJ reports:
U.S. energy companies are pumping so much na...
Posted Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 9:03 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas
The WaPo was a little too cute yesterday in its third-place editorial, "Extracting natural gas: How to counter the adverse side effects of a clean-energy source." The first two lines will no doubt be quoted in public hearing...
Posted Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 5:30 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas, Policy
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