Day: May 2, 2025

Why the Kellogg Plan is DOA Part 9: Why Trump Needs a Coherent Foreign and Domestic Policy

Energy News Beat George McMillan III, Copyright (c) April 14, 2025 BLUF-The Western Financial and Permanent State Cabal This paper takes a counter-narrative position that the Trump administration should pursue a parallel path as Putin and bankrupt the Western financial and permanent state cabal that is trying to censor, defund, bankrupt, eliminate, and assassinate all […]

Labor Market Is Just Fine Despite Dropping Federal Government Jobs, Media-Driven Moaning and Groaning, and Tariff Chaos

Energy News Beat The millions of immigrants that arrived in 2021-2024 finally get picked up in the data for labor force and total employment, which continued to spike. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Total nonfarm payrolls rose by 177,000 in April from March, well above the 12-month average of 157,000 for the second month in a row, […]

Another Refinery Closure In California Increases States’ Dependency On China

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: I interviewed Ronald Stein and Mike Umbro for this article, and we had an absolute blast. I am hoping to release that podcast next week. Ronald Stein is dead on right. California, under Gavin Newsom’s leadership, has become a national security risk for the United States.    By Ronald […]

Trump Admin Hits Back at Michigan, Hawaii Over Oil Industry Climate Lawsuits

Energy News Beat The Trump admin is suing Michigan and Hawaii over state lawsuits targeting energy firms for their alleged role in global warming and weather damages. ​The Trump administration is suing both Michigan and Hawaii over the states’ plans to take oil companies to court over their alleged role in causing global warming and […]

Venture Global secures $3 billion bank loan for CP2 LNG

Energy News Beat Venture Global said on Friday that its subsidiary, Venture Global CP2 LNG, had secured commitments from 19 banks for the facility to continue manufacturing, procurement, and engineering of its plant, begun in early 2023, to be located alongside the Calcasieu Ship Channel in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The company previously announced it had […]

Spain’s Blackout Raising Alarms Over Its Fragile ‘Green Energy’ Grid

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This is a massive wake-up call for the world. We have been saying for years that energy security starts at home, and “renewable” energy cannot replace fossil fuels.  The world is about to find out how much the climate crisis narrative has cost the consumers. This massive blackout could […]

Trump’s Tariffs: Resetting Global Trade and Sparking America’s Industrial Comeback

Energy News Beat In this episode of Energy Newsbeat – Conversations in Energy, host Stuart Turley interviews Wasif Latif, president of Sarmaya Partners, to discuss the global impact of President Trump’s tariffs, the return to tangible assets like commodities, and the challenges and opportunities in reindustrializing the U.S. economy. They explore historical parallels to the […]

PAE, Golar, and partners take FID on Argentina FLNG project

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: Great update on Golar LNG. I am adding the information about Argentina’s natural gas and LNG production in the pub note.  Argentina is a significant producer of natural gas, leveraging its vast shale resources, particularly from the Vaca Muerta formation, to drive production and position itself as an emerging […]

The Spanish Government Is Lying About The Blackouts

Energy News Beat Spain’s blackout exposed the danger of unstable renewables—yet the government is blaming everything but its own green energy agenda. ​Renewable energy had nothing to do with Spain’s catastrophic blackouts, its Prime Minister says, insisting instead that the real culprit was a rare technical failure unrelated to the country’s green energy transition. [emphasis, […]

Atlantic LNG shipping rates rise above $40,000 per day

Energy News Beat “Spark30S (Atlantic) freight rates continue to rise for a second consecutive week, increasing by $5,000 to $40,750 per day and the first time Atlantic freight rates have risen above $40,000 since October 2024, Spark’s data lead analyst Qasim Afghan told LNG Prime on Friday. Meanwhile, Spark25S (Pacific) rates stayed relatively flat at $22,000 […]