natural gas

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration’s “genuine hate” for fossil fuel producers and other traditional energy companies was at the forefront of a two-day-long summit on energy security here this week featuring top industry and business leaders and political voices from around the country.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced new oil and gas production licences to secure energy independence, but he continues block fracking.

Despite the prospect of another winter energy crisis, the UK’s final reserve coal-fired power plants are to shortly go dark forever.

The EU is considering shifting some of its strategic gas storage to Ukraine despite obvious concerns of the facilities being in a war zone.

Germany’s FBI equivalent considering Ukraine as perpetrator of last year’s destruction of a key energy pipeline, it is claimed.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham sounded the alarm about proposed rule changes from the EPA in regard to electricity production capacity in the state. Buckingham called the rule changes “an all-out attack on the energy industry, the robust Texas economy, everyday taxpayers, and public education funding in the state of Texas.”

Chinese state media are touting the China-Central Asia Summit, held on Thursday and Friday in the historic northwestern Chinese city of Xian, as a counter to the Group of Seven (G7) gather of democracies in Japan this weekend.

The Wall Street Journal, citing a Japanese government source, claimed on Sunday that Japan is now buying Russian oil above the $60 per barrel cap imposed by the Group of Seven (G7) nations and Australia in December to keep Moscow from using massive oil profits to finance its invasion of Ukraine.

Regulators in the San Francisco Bay Area voted Wednesday to eliminate the sale and installation of natural gas-powered furnaces and water heaters over eight years beginning in 2027, ostensibly to limit air pollution.

Warm hubs have sprouted across Britain by the thousands this winter as soaring food and energy prices drive millions to turn down the thermostat or skimp on hot meals.

CLAIM: On Wednesday at Bowie State University, Vice President Kamala Harris stated the Biden administration has “reduced heating and electricity bills so folks have more money in their pocket.”

Germany lost over $100 billion as a result of the chaos brought about by the Ukraine War, the head of a major economic research institute in the country has said.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to convert a natural gas power plant to a new hydrogen system that critics say may not provide enough power and could cause more environmental damage.

A coal power plant that was due to shut down last year is among those brought online today to cover a potential shortfall of electricity.

No evidence that Moscow was involved in the suspected sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea has been found so far, a German investigator has admitted.

British Gas employed debt collecting contractors who broke into the homes of vulnerable people to install prepayment meters.

The UK government told local councils to crack down on people using wood-burning stoves with fines of £300 or potential criminal prosecutions.

Italian PM Georgia Meloni held talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government, signing an gas dea worthl $8 billion.

The UK is calm, cloudy, and cold, leaving the National Grid bringing three coal power plants back online to cover the lack of renewables.

Energy Minister Irene Vélez of Colombia confirmed on Thursday that the South American nation will stop awarding new oil and gas exploration contracts, a decision that she described as “absolutely urgent.”

Speaking from Davos, the BlackRock CEO says the attacks on ESG have become personal and ugly.

VALAKELIAI, Lithuania (AP) – A powerful gas pipeline explosion that prompted the evacuation of a village in northern Lithuania was most likely caused by a technical malfunction, the head of the country’s natural gas transmission system said Saturday.

A report on net zero goals commissioned by the British government has said that all new gas-powered boilers should be banned within the next ten years – a move that would cost average households thousands.

An explosion hit a pipeline connecting Latvia and Lithuania on Friday afternoon, sparking an evacuation of the nearby village.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stated that restrictions on gas stoves are “really a backdoor way to go after natural gas” even though natural gas has actually helped cut emissions

SoCal Gas, which supplies natural gas throughout Southern California, warned consumers this weekend that their next bills will be unusually large, blaming what it calls unusually cold winter weather across the nation.

Cofigeo, a group which owns several food companies in France, has shut down four of its eight factories over energy costs. 

This year, former President Donald Trump was proven right in his critiques of the globalist green agenda of the European Union and its reliance on Russian energy, which following the war in Ukraine have both been exposed as devastating failures of leadership.

Qatar obliquely threatened to cut the EU from its supply of natural gas amid claims that the Islamist nation bribed officials in Brussels.

A top Kremlin spokesman told reporters on Thursday that neither the Russian side nor European vendors have decided if rebuilding the severely damaged Nord Stream natural gas pipelines will be worth it.

Rishi Sunak’s plan to increase American natural gas imports has been branded as “expensive hypocrisy” given his decision to ban fracking.

The UK has one of the smallest reserves of gas yet is shipping the resource abroad at levels not seen for years as a cold snap arrives. 

Around 700,000 households in Ireland are now in energy poverty as a result of the ongoing European Union gas crisis, MPs have claimed.

Rough, a gigantic British gas storage facility in the North Sea which the government allowed to go to the wall in 2017, is being gradually brought back to life as the energy crisis bites. 

Despite persistent controversy over the country’s attitude towards LGBT issues, Germany has now agreed to buy gas from Qatar.

The United States will auction nearly one million acres off the Alaskan coast for new oil and gas drilling in December, mandated in the so-called “Inflation” Reduction Act (IRA).