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.
You can’t quantify it. Heck, you can’t even actually prove it’s happening. But the U.S. Securities and 
William S. Scherman worked as general counsel (the head lawyer) for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 1990-1993, during the presidency of George H.W. Bush (the elder Bush). Scherman worked in FERC when Iraq invaded Kuwait. President Bush wanted options from FERC, asap, about what the agency could do to help alleviate an energy crisis being caused by madman Saddam Hussein. Sound familiar with what’s happening today? Back then FERC went on a “wartime footing” and relaxed rules that restricted the output of traditional and alternative electric generators and granted special permission for natural gas to be produced and transported flexibly and freely nationwide. Scherman says it’s time for FERC to go on wartime footing again.
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.
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 
Yesterday the U.S. Dept. of Energy issued two long-term orders authorizing liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from two current operating LNG export projects: Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass facility in Louisiana, and Cheniere’s Corpus Christi facility in Texas. The order allows the two facilities together to ship an extra 0.72 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of LNG over and above the amounts previously authorized. Wait a minute…aren’t all LNG export facilities exporting at their maximum capacity? Yes they are, but…
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 
Exactly three weeks ago MDN brought you the big news that Equitrans Midstream was considering an appeal of two recent rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that overturned a permit and FERC decision to allow Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), now 94% complete, to finish construction (see 
On Monday, Jan. 31, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced PA had been awarded its initial allocation of $25 million, and will receive a total of $104 million, from Biden’s so-called Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to plug orphaned and abandoned wells in the state (see 
Two weeks ago U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, from West Virginia, unloaded on the five commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) during a hearing before the committee he chairs, the Senate Energy Committee (see 
How many times must we say this before it sinks in: FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) is an economic agency, NOT an environmental agency. FERC’s role is to ensure pipelines, electric transmission lines, etc. are able to get built and are economic and not an undue burden for ratepayers. FERC’s role is NOT to worry about so-called global warming. Yet the liberal Democrats inside FERC, and now the liberal Democrats on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, insist FERC reopen already-approved projects, like a tiny pipeline expansion in Massachusetts, and re-do long-completed evaluations in light of global warming considerations. It’s INSANE.