Zealots Turn Out to Protest Electric Energy in Woodbridge, NJ
Food & Water Watch (extremist radicals on the far-left spectrum) stirred up a small group of New Jersey residents to come out and protest a proposed electric generating plant to be located at the site of a current power plant in Woodbridge, NJ. Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) already operates one gas-fired power plant at the location. The plant currently powers about 700,000 homes. In 2018, CPV proposed adding a second power plant at the same location (see CPV Floats Plan for New Marcellus-Fired Power Plant in NJ). For some reason, CPV picks states that are adamantly opposed to new gas-fired electric plants as the location for new projects. Go figure. Wednesday night, a small group of anti-fossil fuel zealots rallied outside Woodbridge town hall to display their ignorance and their desire to kill the electricity needed for an additional 700,000 households.
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The 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project is 94% complete and in the ground. About the only thing left to build is a short 3.5-mile piece on federal land (Jefferson National Forest) and crossings either through or under several hundred creeks and swamps. We are almost there. And yet anti-fossil fuel zealots believe they can still stop the project and block it from ever finishing. We read yet another fawning ode to environmental zealots article about a small group gathering to commiserate about how they dream of stopping MVP, and it struck us, as it often does, how these people speak of themselves and their efforts in religious terms.
The only thing the so-called Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (PEDF) “defends” is their own twisted philosophy of trying to gouge out the eyes of the oil and gas industry in PA–even at the expense of de-funding their own beloved PA Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). In two PA Supreme Court rulings, one in 2017 and another in 2021, PEDF won the right to limit how revenues from oil and gas drilling on state land can be used. The PA legislature reworded its budget directives and began using those revenues to fund day-to-day expenses at DCNR. PEDF sued again. Commonwealth Court rejected PEDF’s arguments against how the legislature allocated the money, and two weeks ago, the PA Supreme Court upheld Commonwealth Court’s rejection. Translation: PEDF just lost a major case they’ve been waging since 2017 to block drilling on state-owned land (by blocking how royalty revenue is used).
Are Pioneer Natural Resources, Devon Energy, and ConocoPhillips out of their cotton-pickin’ minds?! Those three U.S.-based oil and gas majors have voluntarily given up control of the future of their companies to the United Nations by agreeing to participate in a U.N. program that tracks methane emissions. This is how it works: The U.N. sets the standard and then gets suckers to join it voluntarily. Later, when the standard has been accepted and most companies use it, the U.N. will then bring the hammer down, expanding the standard, making it so restrictive that oil and gas companies can’t follow it. At that point, those who are enrolled in the standard can’t do anything about it. If a company leaves the program, it will be ostracized and no one will buy its oil and gas. The smart thing to do is to tell the U.N., a non-U.S. entity, to get lost.
As of 2035, you won’t be able to buy a gasoline-powered vehicle in Massachusetts. Beginning soon (next year?), some 10 Massachusetts municipalities that have passed a ban on connecting new buildings to natural gas lines will implement those bans, as a test project. Both measures are part of a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Charlie Baker, a Democrat who pretends to be a Republican. What’s below a Republican-in-Name-Only (RINO)? Perhaps a Democrat-in-Practice-Without-Actual-Designation (DIPWAD)?
In March 2019, MDN told you about a new Williams plan to beef up the Transco pipeline in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, to deliver an extra 829 MMcf/d (originally 1 billion cubic feet per day) of Marcellus gas to PA, NJ, and Maryland (see 
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) two Republican members, Mark Christie and James Danly, sent a letter to Vanguard Group asking the company for detailed information about how it throws its weight around with the companies it invests in. Specifically, the two FERC commissioners want to know if Vanguard, with some $8.5 trillion (!) under management, is guilty of forcing local electric utility companies to avoid using or buying electricity that comes from natural gas power plants, under the excuse of lowering so-called greenhouse gas emissions.
BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest investment firm with $10 trillion in assets under management, is beginning to feel the heat of its anti-fossil fuel strategy. BlackRock is, without question, anti-fossil fuel energy. Yet the company and its representatives object when being outed as what they are, claiming they still love love love oil and gas companies. It’s not true. BlackRock pressures investors and investment funds to divest from fossil energy companies on the premise those companies are harming the planet. BlackRock itself is now being “harmed” by states like West Virginia, which has decided to end doing business with the company (see 
Loathsome and disgusting shale energy hater Josh Shapiro, Attorney General for Pennsylvania (running for governor), announced on Friday that he finally bullied Energy Transfer into pleading “no contest” (meaning they don’t admit to a darned thing) in a so-called criminal case against the company for a series of accidents affecting construction for both the Revolution and Mariner East pipelines. Shapiro brought the case–a case that converts accidents into crimes–in order to burnish his credibility with the wacko left in his own party. Now he has a “victory” to run on–and everyone in Pennsylvania is the poorer because of it.
The radicalized environmental left has opened up a new front in its disgusting (and insane) war against fossil energy. Three hard-left groups–U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Environment America Research & Policy Center, and ClientEarth–announced yesterday they have filed a lawsuit (i.e. fundraiser) against natural gas utility company Washington Gas in the District of Columbia Superior Court. The faux claims in the lawsuit say Washington Gas “misled” customers about the environmental impacts of using natural gas. This is a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the United States, claiming a gas utility has violated consumer protection laws (i.e. “greenwashing”).
We have spit and sputtered daily since Traitor Joe Manchin announced his treachery last week–that he will sacrifice the entire country and its economic future in return for finishing one pipeline (see