Category: ‘ Natural Gas ’

 

Natural gas exports are a win-win(-win-win)

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 ...

Energy security is the need and should be the metric

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 ...

An historic low in natural gas prices

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...

More good news on 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...

The double-edged shale gas sword

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...

Nigeria and Russia: Geopolitics and energy security

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...

Natural gas by the numbers

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...

How and how not to intervene in energy markets

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...

Energy security and the role of natural gas

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...

Quaking in our boots over 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...
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