NJ Gov Wants to Force Use of Electric Boilers – 500% Higher Rates
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is a “national leader in forcing residents and businesses to pursue climate goals yielding virtuous feelings but resulting in no meaningful change in global or even national greenhouse gas warming.” Here’s the latest Murphy climate debacle. Murphy’s Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has floated a plan forcing all entities using industrial and commercial boilers to power those boilers with electricity instead of natural gas by 2025 (three short years away). The DEP claimed it would only raise costs for operators by maybe 4-5%. As it turns out, someone at the DEP made a math error. The cost of using electricity over natural gas for the boilers, admits the DEP, is actually an increase of 400-500%! Whoops.
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It’s always a sad day when radical Big Green groups win a victory over American energy. Such has happened with the New Fortress Energy (NFE) LNG plant proposed for Wyalusing in Bradford County, PA. Three Big Green groups challenged an extension for a permit previously issued for a new liquefaction facility proposed by NFE located in northeastern PA. NFE has caved and agreed that should it proceed with the project, it will need to file all over again and get a new permit–which doesn’t look likely.
In May 2021 MDN told you that Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) had won Kentucky state approval to build a new 12-inch, 12-mile pipeline near Louisville to supply gas to 62 homes and businesses that can’t connect to LG&E’s local natgas utility system (see 
The left is so predictable–no matter if they are here in the U.S. or somewhere else in the world. And the left never seems to change. Back in the late 1970s when failed President Jimmy Carter faced an oil shortage situation, he recommended people turn down their thermostats and wear sweaters. The left always operates from a “shortage” paradigm rather than an abundance paradigm. Today, history repeats itself. The leftists that infest the International Energy Agency (IEA) told us last year that new oil and gas exploration should immediately stop worldwide (meaning in the U.S.) to save Planet Earth from Global Warming monsters (see 
The left always fights dirty. One of their favorite tactics is to demand a change in the rules of the game when they are losing. Free enterprise, allowing the best companies and best solutions to win based on economics, doesn’t work in the world of leftwing radicals. They seek to skew things–change the rules–tie a 50-pound weight on the back of the runner next to them in order to give themselves an advantage in a race. Which is exactly what’s happening in New England, where UNRELIABLE renewables (solar and wind) are complaining to FERC and FERC’s Chairman, Richard “Dick” Glick, a former wind lobbyist, that electricity auctions are awarded to natgas-fired power plants instead of so-called renewables because natgas is 100% reliable and renewables are not. Time to change the rules.
MDN friend Mark Caskey, president and founder of Steel Nation, a company that builds steel buildings used for natural gas compressor and transmission stations, penned an op-ed for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review to respond to lies being published by the leftist group Earthworks. On March 8 a paid anti-fossil fuel “petrochemicals campaigner” published a column in the Tribune-Review regurgitating Big Green lies that fossil fuels are evil and that calls by PA shale drillers to increase domestic energy output is somehow bad. The answer for lefties is always the same–renewable nirvana will ride in to save the day. (See our post today about fossil energy providing 4X more of our energy than renewables from now until 2050 and beyond–according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.)
In January a new Senate bill was introduced in the West Virginia Senate requiring the entire state government, all of the various state agencies and governmental departments, to stop doing business with any bank or investment firm that refuses to support coal, oil, and natural gas companies (see 
It’s been fun watching the enviro-left soil themselves over the sudden and dramatic shift in public favorable attitudes toward fossil energy. There is no disputing that if the U.S. was energy independent, as it was under Donald Trump, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine would not be having the impact on oil and gas prices that it has had. Republicans (even a few Democrats) are loudly proclaiming we need to ramp up American oil and natural gas drilling once again. This has the lefties doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to try and explain how increasing oil and gas drilling here would be a bad thing. It’s actually quite funny!
In his first two days in office, Joe Biden declared war on the oil and gas industry. One of the first things he did was to revive an interagency working group on the “social cost” of greenhouse gas emissions and directed the issuance of an “interim” cost (see 
It must be sad to live your life focusing all your energy on something you hate. You live in a prison of someone else’s making. You hand the keys of your happiness to someone else, rather than being the captain of your own destiny. Such must be the life of the Pennsylvania “Green” Party’s candidate for governor, Christina “PK Ditty” Digiulio, whose mission in life is to defeat new pipelines, like the now-completed Mariner East 2 pipeline.
Plum Boro (Allegheny County, PA) officials and environmental leftist groups (backed by Big Green foreign money) are gearing up to oppose Plum’s second wastewater injection well with smears and lies. A long-fought-over wastewater injection well in Plum finally opened for business in mid-2021, having overcome all sorts of smears and slanders and lawsuits by the enviro-left (see 
New York’s newest governor, Kathy Hochul, is following in the footsteps of her former boss, Andrew Cuomo, by pledging to block natural gas hookups for all new construction across New York State. It’s insane. Such a ban will cause even more people to leave the state (they’re already leaving in droves). And yet she and the leftist Democrats pulling her strings persist in this path of self-annihilation. Republicans in the NY State Senate have had enough and are fighting back.
Even though construction is completed for the Mariner East pipeline system, anti-fossil fuelers are still lying about the project and its status. Energy Transfer said during its recent quarterly update that Mariner East is in the process of being commissioned, i.e. tested (see