HOUSTON — A decade ago, natural gas was heralded as the fuel of the future. In shale fields across the country, hydraulic fracturing uncorked a lucrative new source of supply. Energy giants like Exxon Mobil and Chevron snapped up smaller companies to get in on the action, and investors poured …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren’s Massachusetts Loves Natural Gas
Just to be clear, you should know that Massachusetts is an overwhelmingly gas-based economy. In a single year, gas supplies around 465 trillion Btu of energy, or some 50% more than second place gasoline. Massachusetts, however, produces no natural gas itself, making energy imports as integral to the state’s functioning …
Read More »Climate change: 1.9 billion people rely on natural ‘water towers’
Image copyright Matthew Paley/National Geographic Image caption Two women tend their potato field in the Chipursan valley, Pakistan. This region is part of the Indus water tower In a unique study, scientists have assessed and ranked the importance of Earth’s great “water towers”. These are the 78 mountainous regions that …
Read More »6 Keys For The Natural Gas Market Into 2020
Let me start by thanking the International Gas Union (IGU) for its Global Gas Report 2019. The IGU report is a must read for anyone interested in energy, especially since gas is becoming the world’s go-to fuel to cut greenhouse gas emissions while also backing up intermittent wind and solar. …
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