Day: November 25, 2023

DAVID BLACKMON: Energy Security Or Tyranny? 2024 Provides A Stark Choice

Energy News Beat One significant political development seen throughout 2023 has featured a move to more conservative governments in countries like Italy, Argentina, Greece, the Netherlands and even regions in Germany as the publics in those and other nations begin to revolt over constantly rising energy costs caused by the irrational policy choices made by […]

ENB #159 Sean Strawbridge – What do you think about critical global energy security? U.S. Energy Exports can make the difference.

Energy News Beat I have had the pleasure of interviewing and introducing Sean several times over the years, and he is a true energy leader on the front lines. With over 30 years in the Global Energy, Trade, and Transportation markets, he has undertaken a new challenge where the United States needs the talent to […]

Hydrogen project canceled :Electrolyzer is simply too expensive

Energy News Beat FREIBURG taz | Even a hefty funding commitment couldn’t save the project: the plant in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Heide (Dithmarschen district), which was once praised as “the largest electrolyzer in Germany for producing green hydrogen”, will not be realized after all. The construction costs of the industrial plant, which should have an output of 30 […]

Grid operator sounds alarm as coal plant shutdown threatens power for millions

Energy News Beat A power grid operator that serves millions of Americans across the mid-Atlantic is warning that a planned coal-fired power plant shutdown will severely threaten electricity supplies and occur before new power sources come online. PJM Interconnection — which coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the […]

Moscow reacts to ex-Soviet state backing EU sanctions

Energy News Beat The ‘hostile’ move by Moldova won’t be left unanswered, the Russian Foreign Ministry has warned By agreeing to abide by the EU’s sanctions against Russia, the government of Moldova has taken another “hostile step” aimed at the destruction of bilateral relations with the country, the foreign ministry in Moscow has said. On […]

Can Europe Become Western Again?

Energy News Beat Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, For the first time in a millennium, Europe no longer plays a critical role in promoting Western civilization nor in world history at large. Ostensibly it should. Some 750 million people live on the European subcontinent. Europe still remains the most popular tourist spot […]

Tiny Fraction Of Global Elites Emit As Much Carbon As Bottom Two-Thirds Of Humanity

Energy News Beat Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Critics who rail against the hypocrisy of wealthy global elites jet-setting on carbon-spewing private planes while pontificating about the need for the rest of us to cut our climate footprints just got a boost from a new study. It turns out that […]

Has America Been Set Up As History’s Ultimate “Bumbling Villain”?

Energy News Beat Authored by Brandon Smith via off-guardian.org, Editor’s Note: It’s not often we publish an article written before OffG even existed, but this one – written over a decade ago in September 2013 and brought to our attention by Mark Gresham – is both interesting and prescient. It discusses the decline of US […]

Biden’s ATF Push For Universal Background Checks: An Overview

Energy News Beat Submitted by Aidan Johnston of Gun Owners of America, Biden and his cronies in the White House have cooked up a new unconstitutional gun control “rule” for ATF to enforce. ATF is trying to eliminate the private sale of firearms without background checks and registration paperwork. They’re essentially accusing anyone of selling a gun of […]

Crime In San Francisco Is So Bad, There’s Now Actual Pirates In The Bay

Energy News Beat Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former harbormaster of Oakland Brock De Lappe doesn’t like to use the word “piracy” to describe waterborne crime on the Oakland/Alameda Estuary. “People have this romantic view of pirates—Johnny Depp; Pirates of the Caribbean—argh! Avast ye, matey!” said Mr. De Lappe, a […]