MAD: Time to Oppose “Permitting Reform” for Pipelines & Renewables
Ever hear of the term MAD–or mutually assured destruction? It was popularized during the Cold War we had with Communist Russia (i.e. the Soviet Union) in the last century. The MAD doctrine said if one side used a nuclear weapon against the other, the other side would retaliate. The war would quickly escalate, and each side would essentially destroy the other side, and there would be nothing left but cinders. MAD meant nobody, in their right mind, would launch the first nuke. Let’s apply that doctrine to today’s environmental Communists on the left (i.e. the Democrats in Washington). They HAVE launched the equivalent of a nuclear attack against the fossil fuel industry. We think it’s time to retaliate and take them out, too (no winners). How? By refusing to vote in favor of so-called “permitting reform” that would make it easier to build so-called renewable energy projects in this country. Let’s let the left have a taste of the destruction they have brought on fossil energy for the past 20 years or so. See how THEY like it. Yeah, it’s MAD.
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Yesterday, the management of NextEra Energy announced it has officially lost its collective mind. The company is selling its two natural gas pipeline investments–one in Texas and the other right here in the heart of the Marcellus Shale–because it wants to concentrate 100% on unreliable (and government-funded) “renewable” energy projects instead. You may recall that NextEra bought Meade Pipeline Co LLC for $1.37 billion in 2019 (see 
Summit Midstream Partners, formed in 2009 and headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, operates natural gas, crude oil, and produced water gathering (pipeline) systems in several unconventional shale plays, including the Marcellus and Utica. Last week Summit issued its first quarter 2023 update. While most upstream and midstream companies have seen positive cash flow and profits over the past year, Summit continues to miss the mark. The company lost $14.1 million in 1Q23 versus losing $5 million in 1Q22.
Last week MDN brought you the sad news that New York State has fallen and is now under a Communist dictatorship, with the freedom to choose an energy source now gone (see 
Oklahoma has officially joined a growing list of states pulling its business from banks and investment firms that boycott the fossil fuel industry. Last week Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ published a list of 13 firms, including BlackRock (the largest investment firm in the world), that the state will no longer do business with. The list also includes Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and State Street. This is how we fight back against the anti-fossil fuel cabal–by taking money out of their pockets–hitting them where it counts.
We’ve noticed that the more science and objective proof is offered to prove that the warming of planet Earth is a natural cycle and not caused by humans, the more shrill and unhinged the left becomes. They resort to name-calling (you’re a “climate denier”), and they even, in their unguarded moments, suggest that perhaps people who espouse an opinion different from theirs should be jailed (see 
This is precisely what we feared might happen and why we were against the merger of Cimarex Energy and Cabot Oil & Gas, now called Coterra Energy (see 
On Friday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced her office has filed criminal charges against two men for falsifying paperwork and risking catastrophe while working on a natural gas pipeline project in western PA. The AG’s Environmental Crime Section and the US Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General investigated a case of suspected fraud in falsifying records for portions of a MarkWest Liberty Pipeline to transport NGLs.
The Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA (near Pittsburgh) has experienced a number of problems over the past six months during startup, including flaring and foul odors (see 
The Pennsylvania-based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), along with Citizens for Rights of the Ohio River Watershed (CROW), are trying to gather enough signatures from Cincinnati residents to put a measure on a city ballot that would create a so-called Bill of Rights (i.e. bestow human rights) for the Ohio River and its watershed. We wonder what the Ohio River “thinks” about that! This isn’t the first time the radicalized CELDF has tried this stunt in Ohio (see