by Alex Stevens
ColoradoBiz magazine
“Natural gas, once seen as a bridge fuel to a new energy future, is now the target of attacks by anti-industrial activists,” according to ColoradoBiz magazine.
“Should Colorado adopt California’s energy policies?” Read Full Article »
by Robert Bryce
Forbes
“News coverage of Tuesday’s elections was dominated by Glenn Youngkin’s victory over incumbent Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial race. But when it comes to energy policy and climate action, the lopsided result of a referendum in Maine over a high-voltage transmission project proved yet again that land-use conflicts are the binding constraint on the expansion of renewables in the United States. The rejection of the 145-mile, $1 billion project also showed that the myriad claims being made by politicians and climate activists that we can run our economy solely on renewables are little more than wishful thinking,” according to Forbes.
Habitat magazine
“Now, The New York Times reports, the push for a greener electric grid is running into stiff headwinds. Hecate Energy, a renewable energy developer, had hoped to install a 500-acre solar farm in Copake, N.Y., a quiet town nestled between the Catskill and Berkshire Mountains. The setting was ideal because of its proximity to an electrical substation, critical to the power transmission. But after facing an outcry from some in the community who feared the installation would mar the bucolic setting, Hecate scaled back its plans,” according to Habitat magazine.
“NIMBY: Rural Residents Push Back on Large Solar Farms” Read Full Article »
by Alex Kimani
Oil Price
“Nearly 60% of S&P 500 companies have reported third-quarter 2021 earnings, and the energy sector has again emerged as a standout performer,” according to Oil Price.
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by Irina Slav
Oil Price
“How much higher could oil prices go? This is the question that the U.S., China, India, and other big consumers have come to dread as benchmarks continue to rise amid tight supply and soaring demand. The answer right now is not one they will be happy with, either. ‘Net, our bullish view remains unchanged: the oil deficit remains unresolved, the current strength in oil demand remains a near-term tailwind and the increasingly structural nature of the deficits will require much higher long-dated oil prices,’ Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a note last week,” as reported by Oil Price.
by Benoit Faucon and Timothy Puko
The Wall Street Journal
“White House mulls its limited options to boost supply; critics say situation exposes flaws in president’s climate-change agenda set out at COP26,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
“Rising Oil Prices Put Biden in a Bind Over Climate Pledges” Read Full Article »
by John Robson
The National Post
“The COP26 climate gabfest in chilly Glasgow is quite the spectacle. Its horde of private jets, apocalyptic rhetoric and detachment from reality reminds me irresistibly of Grand Moff Tarkin’s ‘Evacuate in our moment of triumph?’ The great and good are gathered to end the debate for the 26th time, and reverse the rising tide of endless hottest years ever, just as a long, cold winter with skyrocketing fuel prices zooms past their radar,” according to The National Post.
“The self-aggrandizing hypocrisy in the COP26 Climate Death Star” Read Full Article »
by Professor Mark Castelino
The Wall Street Journal
“‘Solar and Wind Force Poverty on Africa’ (op-ed by Yoweri K. Museveni, Oct. 25)—and all under the guise of saving the planet. But saving it for whom? Several hundred million Africans live in poverty, thanks partly to a lack of reliable energy. The imposition on the Third World of green mandates, like tariffs, must inevitably hamper poor nations’ ability to produce goods and services,” according to Professor Mark Castelino of Rutgers Business School whose letter appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
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by Jon Brown
Fox News
“The Biden administration is reportedly weighing the potential market consequences of shutting down an oil pipeline in Michigan, drawing criticism from opponents. Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Biden’s energy secretary, predicted Sunday that heating prices will rise this winter regardless of the Biden administration’s decision on the pipeline. ‘Yeah, this is going to happen. It will be more expensive this year than last year,’ Granholm told CNN,” as reported by Fox News.
by Jeffrey Rodack
Newsmax
“Former Vice President Al Gore said a program relying on mass surveillance data is keeping track of greenhouse gas emissions. A climate coalition is staying on top of the information. ‘We’re going to have real-time monitoring on where the emissions are coming from and who is responsible for them,’ Gore told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell last week. ‘We get data consistently from 300 existing satellites, more than 11,000 ground-based, air-based, sea-based sensors, multiple internet data streams, and using artificial intelligence,’” according to Newsmax.
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by Kurt Zindulka
Breitbart
“Instead of taking full advantage of the economic possibilities of leaving the European Union, the British government may seek to impose border carbon taxes on imports from countries that do not live up to the green vision of Prime Minister Boris Johnson,” according to Breitbart.
by Jeremy Beaman
Washington Examiner
“Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughed off the notion of encouraging more domestic oil production to blunt high gasoline prices and said matters are exclusively in OPEC’s hands. ‘That is hilarious,’ Granholm responded while laughing to Bloomberg Surveillance host Tom Keene’s question about the ‘Granholm plan’ to increase oil production in America. ‘Would that I had the magic wand on this,’ Granholm said. ‘As you know, of course, oil is a global market. It is controlled by a cartel. That cartel is called OPEC,’” according to the Washington Examiner.
American Energy Alliance
“Nine years ago, the wind industry agreed to a six-year phase out of the wind production tax credit. At the time, the wind industry told reporters that they needed 4-6 years to achieve subsidy-free competitiveness. But now the wind industry, other renewable electricity generators, and their financial backers on Wall Street, are back supporting the House Democrats plan to transfer billions of dollars from hard-working taxpayers to Wall Street bankers by laundering it through renewable energy companies,”according to the American Energy Alliance.
by Michael Shellenberger
UnHerd
“No global problem has ever been more exaggerated than climate change. As it has gone from being an obscure scientific question to a theme in popular culture, we’ve lost all sense of perspective,” according to UnHerd.
by Bjorn Lomborg
The Wall Street Journal
“. . .as this series explained in regard to flood costs, only measuring the total damage of natural disasters over time misses the important point—there’s much more stuff to damage today than there was several decades ago,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
“We’re Safer From Climate Disasters Than Ever Before” Read Full Article »
by Jack Ewing and Patricia Cohen
The New York Times
“For every car or truck that does not roll off an assembly line in Detroit, Stuttgart or Shanghai, jobs are in jeopardy. They may be miners digging ore for steel in Finland, workers molding tires in Thailand, or Volkswagen employees in Slovakia installing instrument panels in sport utility vehicles. Their livelihoods are at the mercy of supply shortages and shipping chokeholds that are forcing factories to curtail production,” according to The New York Times.
“How Car Shortages Are Putting the World’s Economy at Risk” Read Full Article »
by Irina Slav
Oil Price
“Cheap batteries have been the key factor for the mass adoption of electric cars for a while now. Until recently, battery costs were on a steady downward curve as technology improved and efficiency increased. But then the pandemic came and wrought havoc on every single industry and supply chain. Lithium prices are running to record highs at the moment, with the London Metal Exchange reporting the price for a kilogram of lithium hydroxide—one of three forms of lithium traded on global markets—at $27 last Friday. The other forms of battery-grade lithium are also soaring, as seen in these charts from Fastmarkets. And this trend is threatening the EV revolution,” according to Oil Price.
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by Jeremy Beaman
Washington Examiner
“The Supreme Court will hear arguments for a suit seeking to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions. The decision could result in a significant and lasting scale-back of the agency’s ability to impose expansive standards on the sector and insulate states and utilities that rely heavily on coal,” according to the Washington Examiner.
by Sophia Sleigh
Huffington Post
“As the mega-rich descend on Glasgow with their private jets and gas-guzzling cars, critics accuse global leaders of ‘do as I say, not as I do’”, according to the Huffington Post.
“Ten Hypocritical Moments Surrounding Glasgow Cop26 Climate Change Summit” Read Full Article »
by Isaac Orr
American Experiment
“Coal plants around the Midwest have been running more often this year because high natural gas prices have made it more economical to burn coal than gas. According to Energy Information Administration data, coal use on the regional grid in August of 2021 was substantially higher than in August 2020,” according to the American Experiment.
“Is Xcel Energy running out of coal for the winter?” Read Full Article »