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As coal plants are retired, why isn’t renewable energy replacing it?
This article discusses why, as Coal Retires in PJM, renewables aren’t filling the vacuum. Solar and wind have struggled to compete against a flood of cheap natural gas in the largest U.S. wholesale power market, operated by PJM.
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Aliso Canyon Disaster Highlights Risks, Inadequate Safety Rules Governing Natural Gas Storage
This article discusses the lack of safety rules governing natural gas storage.
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Natural Gas Infrastructure and Public Health: From Local to Global
This Boston University site has a video on their January 30, 2018 presentation on the relationship between the natural gas infrastructure and public health. There is a listing of the speakers and topics included as well
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Court won’t reconsider dismissing case against Obama fracking rule
An appeals court declined Wednesday to reconsider its September decision that undid a previous court ruling overturning the Obama administration’s fracking rule for federal land.
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Five Big Fights We Can Win in 2018 – Maybe
For anyone who cares about our environment, 2017 has been a rough year. Our food, water, and climate have been under assault by an industry-captured EPA, a fossil-fuel friendly Congress, and a President who could care less about ordinary people or our health. The fights are (1) banning Fracking; […]
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‘East-to-west’ gas pipeline could be on the cards for WA’s north
WA conservation groups say the State Government’s decision to axe an agreement with fracking companies in the state’s north-west could be the catalyst for an “east coast-to-west coast gas pipeline.”
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Under scrutiny, oil and gas commission cracks down on illegal dams
British Columbia’s gas industry regulator launched a string of enforcement orders this fall against fracking dams in the province’s gas-rich northeast.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2017/11/16/oil-and-gas-commission-tackles-illegal-dams.html
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Comments Supporting a Gas Exports Rule Are Recycled Industry Propaganda
Supporting a Gas Exports Rule Are Recycled Industry Copy-Pastes. A review of the comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on its proposed rule to fast-track the export of small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) shows that roughly two dozen of of the 89 comments were directly copy-pasted […]
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DRBC to consider potential gas drilling ban at Wednesday meeting in Newtown
The Delaware River Basin Commission will consider setting in motion new regulations on hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River and its watershed at its quarterly meeting Wednesday morning.
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Supply challenges could be Goldboro LNG’s ‘Achilles heel’
GUYSBOROUGH – Pieridae Energy has raised $50 million in support of the next phase of its Goldboro LNG project. In an interview with The Journal Monday, company president and CEO Alfred Sorensen said the funds will pay for work to meet environmental conditions for the development, and to undertake the engineering work […]
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