Keep in mind this is coming from the same group of people who claimed that snowfalls were a thing of the past.
"Climate contradiction: Less snow, more blizzards; 2 studies detail global warming, extreme weather" by Seth Borenstein | Associated Press, February 19, 2013
WASHINGTON — With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.
Then when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow earlier this month, some of the same people again blamed global warming. How can that be? It’s been a joke among skeptics, pointing to what seems to be a brazen contradiction.
Do I look like I'm laughing here, readers? Do my profanities born of rage strike you as funny? It's just this type of in-your-face, shit-slop agenda-pushing that makes me so comedic.
But the answer lies in atmospheric physics.
Yeah, I want to know how 100-story skyscrapers pancake at free-fall speed first. Then you $cientists, who are nothing more than paid shills for propaganda purposes lest your puppet-masters, cut the funding can be heard.
A warmer atmosphere can hold, and dump, more moisture, scientists say. Two new studies attempt to explain how there can be more giant blizzards yet less snow across the country each year. That trend is expected to continue because of global warming.
Yeah, NEVER MIND the RECORD COLD WINTERS ACROSS the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, or the record snowfall in Russia or record cold in China. Instead I'm getting day after day of meteor coverage. It's easy to sell an agenda when you omit and ignore so many things. Instead I see endless stories saying 2012 was the hottest year ever.
The United States has been walloped by twice as many of the most extreme snowstorms in the past 50 years than in the previous 60 years, according to an upcoming study on extreme weather by leading federal and university scientists.
What makes you think I would ever believe anything they have to say?
This also fits with a dramatic upward trend in extreme winter precipitation — both rain and snow — in the Northeast, as charted by the National Climatic Data Center.
Yet the Global Snow Lab at Rutgers University says that spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has shrunk on average by 1 million square miles in the last 45 years. And an upcoming study in the Journal of Climate says computer models predict annual global snowfall to shrink by more than a foot in the next 50 years. The study’s author said most people live in parts of the United States that are likely to see annual snowfall drop between 30 and 70 percent by the end of the century.
‘‘Shorter snow season, less snow overall, but the occasional knockout punch,’’ Princeton University scientist Michael Oppenheimer said. ‘‘That’s the new world we live in.’’
I'm sorry, but the lying fart-mist feels a lot like the old world.
Ten climate scientists say the idea of less snow and more blizzards makes sense: A warmer world is likely to decrease the overall amount of snow falling each year and shrink snow season. But when it is cold enough for a snowstorm to hit, the slightly warmer air is often carrying more moisture, producing potentially historic blizzards....
All based on computer models that are fed garbage.
And what was that saying I heard long ago?
Oh, yeah, garbage in, garbage out.
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I thought I smelled something.
Related: The Great Blizzard of 2013
Global Warming Snow Job
What do you mean the polar ice sheets are expanding?
Snow makes for stormy relations on Boston streets
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Blizzard assessment starts, storm looms
Boston prepares for climate change effects
10 inches of snow may hit South Shore, Cape
Blizzard follow-up is milder for Boston
Snowy days are local skiers’ delight
Bostonians can be forgiven if they think the color of s*** is white.
"Public works chief in eye of the snowstorm" by Andrew Ryan | Globe Staff, February 18, 2013
Joanne Massaro learned about working under fire a lifetime ago, toiling in the 1970s as a self-taught cook in a Washington restaurant run by Claude Bouchet, a French chef who served presidents and powerbrokers.
Now Massaro faces an entirely differently kind of pressure cooker: The girl who grew up in Hyde Park and dreamed of being a chef is Boston’s commissioner of public works. For the past four winters Massaro has overseen snow removal, a key city service that has come under fire since a blizzard dumped more than 2 feet of snow and some side streets remained impassible for days.
“Our guys did a good job,” Massaro said last week in an interview. “It wasn’t perfect, but what my guys sometimes lack in finesse they make up for in endurance and commitment. They keep coming in, they keep doing it, we keep giving them lists, and they [keep] going out and busting their butts.”
Mayor Thomas M. Menino apologized to residents whose streets were left unplowed, but he and his staff have also defended the city’s response. Boston’s main arteries were cleared hours after the blinding blizzard and the majority of the city’s side streets followed, Menino and others have said.
City Councilor Charles C. Yancey has called for a hearing to examine the response, which will be a test for Massaro.
Massaro came to public works four years ago from the city’s finance office to repair a department in disarray — from loafing employees to an equipment garage overrun by mismanagement and infighting....
A diminutive grandmother with short-cropped white hair, Massaro took an unlikely path to the grease-on-the-coveralls, male-dominated world of public works. At age 58, she has been mother to two girls, holds degrees from two Ivy League institutions, and with her sister and mother founded Sorelle Bakery & Cafe in her home neighborhood of Charlestown.
At the restaurant, Massaro discovered that she excelled more at management than cooking, an epiphany that pushed her to Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where in 1995 she received a midcareer master’s degree in public administration. But even after almost 20 years in city government working on neighborhood development and finance, her resume does not scream public works.
“The main problem Joanne faced going into the job was a lot of people with very tough street jobs who didn’t want to buy into the fact that there was a woman managing the department,” said Matthew Cahill, executive director of the Boston Finance Commission, a fiscal watchdog that has been critical of public works.
“She’s got a certain grace to her,” Cahill said. “Let’s face it, there’s not a lot of glamour in public works. I’ve never seen her get angry. She shows up [in the equipment yards] when she needs to. I think there a healthy fear of her in the field, which is not in the worst thing in the world.”
Massaro carries a pad of paper and scribbles notes like a reporter, practices yoga daily, and meditates most mornings for 20 to 40 minutes, a practice she abandoned during the blizzard....
With 350 employees and an $82 million budget, the Public Works Department does more than remove snow. It maintains the city’s 40 bridges, its 66,000 street lights, and handles construction on 810 miles of road. Public works employees fill potholes, sweep streets, and oversee trash and recycling pickup. But when most people think of the department, they think snow removal.
“It was the thing that made me the most nervous about the job because part of it is beyond your control,” she said. “It’s the weather.”
??????? I'm being told I have to watch my carbon intake because we can.
With her understated nature, Massaro could not be more different than Boston’s iconic former public works czar, the late Joseph F. Casazza, who for almost four decades was the public face of winter in Boston. Casazza, however, also took his own lumps over plowing, especially when the city faced similar two-foot snowfalls in December 2003 and the April Fool’s Day blizzard of 1997, when he slept through the height of the storm....
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And given a REAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM....
"Shale oil helps revive East Coast refineries; Offers cheaper gas; US could top Saudi output" by Erin Ailworth | Globe Staff, February 18, 2013
A year ago, the shutdown of several refineries serving the Northeast and the possibility they would not reopen threatened to boost New England’s already high gasoline prices by as much as 15 cents a gallon. But an influx of cheaper crude oil extracted from shale rock formations in the United States has helped save most of those facilities and stabilized gas prices.
Stabilized? They are up 30 cents a gallon in the last two weeks alone!
Also see: Obama Steps on the Gas For Israel
The post was refined a bit.
The revival of the East Coast refineries is another example of how the controversial drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is changing the energy equation for the region, nation, and world.
Just as fracking opened vast reserves of natural gas over the past decade, it is now unlocking crude oil trapped in shale deposits. It is so dramatically increasing domestic production that the United States is projected to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest oil producer by 2017.
Amazing how all the fossil fuel global warming talk goe$ away in the face of the $ucce$$ of $hale, huh?
The influx of this domestic crude, known as “tight oil,” has allowed East Coast refineries to decrease their reliance on more expensive foreign oil, increase profit margins, and regain their economic competitiveness, refinery operators say. They estimate the domestic crude cuts oil costs by a few dollars per barrel, which can have a huge impact on their bottom line.
“A savings of $1 per barrel across our entire refining system is worth several hundred million dollars of net income to Phillips 66,” said Dennis Nuss, spokesman for the Houston company operating the Bayway refinery in New Jersey.
In Philadelphia, domestic supplies have helped resurrect a facility that accounts for nearly one-fourth of East Coast refining capacity. It was put up for sale in 2011 and expected to close for good last summer as high oil prices and slackening demand made it barely profitable. Today, it is refining up to 330,000 barrels of oil a day, getting about 10 percent of its crude from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota.
Phil Rinaldi, chief executive of Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the company that now operates the refinery, said the domestic supplies are pressuring foreign producers to keep their prices competitive.
“It allows us for the first time in a very long time to have some genuine diversity of supply,” he said. “The shale plays are game-changers.”
Last week, the average Massachusetts gas price was $3.68 a gallon, 12 cents higher than a year ago and up 25 cents in the last month alone, according to AAA Southern New England. If the refineries had stayed shuttered, however, prices would have been driven even higher, analysts believe.
No way of proving that, but the narrative is advanced.
But the process used to extract the oil is controversial. Fracking pumps chemical-laced, pressurized water deep into the earth to split open shale, releasing oil or natural gas. The method has spurred fears that chemicals and other substances will pollute drinking water and the air.
You will know something is up if you can burn water, folks.
Environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council are pushing for stricter regulations.
Which just goes to show you the NRDC is a controlled-opposition group. First they are cited by my agenda-pushing newspaper as an expert source, and second, they are for regulation. They aren't against the fouling and despoiling of the environment. Whatever happened to solar and wind, anyway, and why are we wasting so much money on wars for oil and gas?
“It’s a lot of the same risks from any oil and gas production, and a lot of the same risks that people have been hearing about from shale gas production,” said Briana Mordick, a staff scientist at the NRDC. “There’s broad agreement that something needs to be done.”
These concerns have played against economic benefits that are lowering energy costs for consumers and businesses, creating jobs, and sparking booms in North Dakota and other oil- producing states.
Yeah, SO MUCH for the ENVIRONMENT -- unless it is rage-inducing global warming so they can slap a carbon tax on you.
The Lexington forecasting firm IHS estimates that extraction of shale gas and oil added $62 billion in revenues to federal and state coffers last year....
Which is why the environment isn't a concern in this case. It's only a concern when it is the nebulous fart-misting fraud that will have Wall Street banks underwriting the carbon credit market -- literally creating money out of thin air.
Still, part of the problem for Northeastern refineries has been a lack of pipeline capacity....
Uh-oh.
Transporting shale oil via barge and rail has helped the region access cheap supplies, but New England will be able to reap the full benefits of lower-cost domestic oil only by building more pipelines, said Joe Petrowski, head of Cumberland Farms Gulf Oil Group, a major Northeast fuel distributor. Transportation costs, he said, still erase much of the savings from domestic oil.
“What I’m trying to do is get energy prices down for New England,” he said. “The less your average person in Brockton has to spend on gas and heating oil, the more they can spend on a sweater, a vacation, or a sub from Cumberland Farms.”
What makes you think I would want to buy or eat one of those disgusting pos? I thought we had a health and obesity crisis in this country.
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Benefiting from the boom....
Would you like to see whom?
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At least you won't have to worry about polluting the rivers:
"A steady flow of troubles for the long-foul Mystic; River draws scrutiny, but cleanup a complex challenge" by Beth Daley | Globe Staff, February 18, 2013
What a juxtaposition. This article was paired with the one above on the Globe's front page.
SOMERVILLE — The Mystic — the namesake of the celebrated Dennis Lehane crime novel — has long suffered in the shadow of the longer and more visible Charles and Neponset rivers. It is a far cry from the idyllic waterway portrayed in the popular Thanksgiving poem “Over the River and Through the Woods.”
Related: Dennis Lehane and friends continue search for lost dog
He said what?
If you want to read more about Lehane, go here.
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But it is starting to attract attention....
Says who?
Many of the communities along its filthiest parts are poor....
As usual in this world.
There is no better time to get the public involved, advocates say, because the Mystic may be in for worse news. The EPA announced last month that it is working on new language to give financially struggling communities more time to comply with Clean Water Act regulations. Requests to the EPA for comment went unanswered....
But they are looking out for your health.
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Besides, who cares? We are going to have cheap oil for the war machine!
"US to be top oil producer by 2017, report says; America will be self-sufficient by 2030, study finds" by Elisabeth Rosenthal | New York Times, November 13, 2012
The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer by about 2017 and will become a net oil exporter by 2030, according to a report released Monday by the International Energy Agency.
That increased oil production, combined with new US policies to improve energy efficiency, means that the United States will become ‘‘all but self-sufficient’’ in meeting its energy needs in about two decades — a ‘‘dramatic reversal of the trend’’ in most developed countries, the report says....
Fatih Birol, chief economist at the Paris-based organization which produces the annual World Energy Outlook, noted in an interview before the release that Middle Eastern oil once bound for the United States would probably be rerouted to China. US-mined coal, facing declining demand in its home market, is already heading to Europe and China instead.
There are several components of the sudden shift in the world’s energy supply, but the prime mover is a resurgence of US oil and gas production, particularly the unlocking of new reserves of oil and gas found in shale rock. The widespread adoption of techniques such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling has made those reserves much more accessible, and, in the case of natural gas, resulted in a vast glut that has sent prices plunging....
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Of course, who better to get the facts than the Globe, right?
"Fact-free fracking" by Farah Stockman | Globe Columnist, November 13, 2012
A Texas oil man named T . Boone Pickens perfected the art of squeezing natural gas out of shale rock by blasting huge quantities of water at it.
Oh, now it is an art form.
People already knew that America sits on huge reservoirs of natural gas embedded in shale. But nobody had a cost-effective way to get it out. As Pickens mastered his technique — known as “fracking” — natural gas became unbelievably cheap. Everyone started switching away from sulfur-burping coal plants to gas.
People started swooning about gas: It comes from economically depressed areas of Ohio and Pennsylvania, not the deserts of Iraq. And it releases about half the greenhouse gases that coal does. Finding that out was like discovering that ice cream cures cancer. Gas was going to save America, economically and environmentally. It was going to be “one of the five great story lines of the 21st century,” Representative Edward Markey said.
And he is supposed to be a big, big environmentalist.
It seemed too good to be true — until people started insisting that it was, and blamed fracking for everything from bad water to sick cows.
It started with the documentary “Gasland,” made by a filmmaker who suggests, among other things, that fracking causes breast cancer. (According to epidemiologists, it doesn’t.) Then Matt Damon made his new movie “Promised Land,” about how fracking turns lush farmland brown. (While there are credible cases of tainted water, fracking seems to coexist safely with farming in much of America.)
How sad to see that $tockman is just another self-serving shill.
And then there is the new television show “Dallas,” where the good cousin Chris Ross pushes for alternative energy, while JR’s evil son focuses on fracking. (In reality, both alternative energy and gas are part of the climate change solution.) Another movie — this time in support of fracking — is rumored to be on the way.
Btw, who killed L.H.?
But maybe we need less Hollywood and more science.
Oh, I AGREE THERE!
For all the millions of Google hits that “fracking” brings up, remarkably little research has been done on what its risks actually are and whether they can be mitigated....
The truth is there are plenty of reasons to fret about fracking: Cheap, easy gas could slow our progress toward more affordable solar power and wind. And methane gas can leak into the atmosphere, curbing the greenhouse gas benefit. Scariest of all, geologists believe that fracking could produce minor earthquakes....
The website NoFracking.com even suggests that frackers are deliberately poisoning America’s water supply, so that T . Boone Pickens will make more money selling clean water.
There might have been a time when I dismissed such possibilities, but that was long ago. They push tainted vaccines into your arms. What makes you think they wouldn't poison your water for a buck?
If that sounds like a plot out of Hollywood, stayed tuned. It just might be.
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Related(?):
"Maine earthquake rattles residents around Boston; No injuries in brief event" by Travis Andersen, Derek J. Anderson and Melanie Dostis | Globe Staff | Globe Correspondents, October 16, 2012
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck about 30 miles outside of Portland, Maine, on Tuesday night, officials said, shaking the ground throughout New England and surprising thousands of residents who rarely experience the phenomenon.
Yeah, and there have been a handful of them since fracking started.
The quake hit at 7:12 p.m., the US Geological Survey said on its website....
According to the Geological Survey, tremors were felt as far north as upper Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and as far south as Connecticut....
People in Greater Boston were buzzing Tuesday night in the immediate aftermath....
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Also related(?):
Earthquake brings fear, fascination to New England
Canadian Mysteries
And look where they want to frack next:
"Western Mass. viewed as territory for fracking" by Beth Daley | Globe Staff, December 13, 2012
The possibility that Western Massachusetts may hold limited deposits of shale gas is catapulting the contentious issue of hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, into the state.
I do not want them here ruining our beautiful hills and valleys!
An industry-supported group plans to hold a daylong session Thursday at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to tell landowners and the public about gas extraction, six months after a federal study mentioned the likelihood of gas deposits in the Pioneer Valley.
While the state probably does not have expansive reserves, American Ground Water Trust executive director Andrew Stone said that small-scale gas development could begin in several years, and landowners need to be given “calm, objective facts.”
“The facts are, [a study] drew a circle around the middle of Massachusetts” where shale gas could be found, said Stone, whose New Hampshire group includes representatives from engineering and chemical companies on its board.
“We want landowners, individuals, and the community to understand there could be drilling, and they need to be ready for it,” Stone said.
Geologists say it is unlikely the deposits will be extracted anytime soon, because they are probably too small, scattered, and of questionable quality.
No companies have expressed interest in exploring for shale gas, state officials say, and the type of wells needed to get to the gas is prohibited in the state.
Still, a group opposed to fracking has formed through the Pioneer Valley Green-Rainbow Party and the Western Massachusetts chapter of Progressive Democrats of America, with the goal of banning the process.
“We know that it is probably not going to happen in Massachusetts now, but the technology advances so rapidly it is best to take precautions,’’ said Peter Vickery, a lawyer and cochairman of the Pioneer Valley Green-Rainbow Party. He is speaking at the conference to give the Sierra Club’s perspective on fracking.
But WHEREVER there is a BUCK to be MADE!!!!
Hydraulic fracking is a controversial technology that involves injecting pressurized water mixed with chemicals and sand deep into the earth to free large reserves of natural gas trapped in rock.
As its use increases, so have concerns over gas or chemicals seeping into drinking water and groundwater. New York has adopted a fracking moratorium until it develops rules for the process. A 2011 Duke University study found high levels of leaked methane in Pennsylvania wells near shale gas extraction.
I know, I know, I should quit whining about fracking.
In June, a US Geological Survey report assessed five East Coast basins — large geological depressions — and determined they had a total of 3,860 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
By comparison, the gas-rich Marcellus shale formation — marine sedimentary rock that extends through parts of New York, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania — could contain 141 trillion cubic feet of gas, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Gas extraction is already taking place in parts of the Marcellus.
Part of Massachusetts is in a geological formation known as the Hartford Basin. The piece of the basin in Massachusetts is 34 miles long and varies in width from three to 15 miles. Springfield is surrounded by it.
The entire basin, which lies under the Connecticut Valley from roughly the Vermont border to the Connecticut shoreline, was one of nine that Geological Survey researchers mentioned but did not fully assess.
The Hartford Basin was formed as the supercontinent Pangea began breaking apart about 220 million years ago. As the Atlantic Ocean began forming in one crack, the Connecticut Valley formed in another, eventually allowing lakes to form.
The waterways would periodically dry up and become wet again, allowing mud and other organic material to layer atop each over time deep in the ground. Those layers today are known as black shale formations, said Richard Little, a geologist and professor emeritus at Greenfield Community College.
It's just down the hill.
Geologists say that unlike the Marcellus shale formation, the Hartford Basin is not likely to be replete with gas. The Hartford’s shale is thin and not in large unbroken planes, meaning it is not ripe for gas extraction, said Stephen Mabee, Massachusetts state geologist. A good portion of the basin was also overheated from volcanic activity, which means any oil or gas is probably gone. Other places weren’t heated enough to produce gas.
Good.
“The whole basin has been unevenly cooked,” Mabee said, adding that would make it “difficult to know where the gas is.”
Mabee noted that Texaco did exploratory geophysical work in the 1970s, and then paid for work in the 1980s to examine the hydrothermal history of the Connecticut Valley, but no further exploration took place, he said.
They must not have found anything.
The lead author of the June US Geological Survey study, Robert Milici, said he did not know if there was a lot of gas in the Hartford Basin, and no one will until it is explored.
“I can’t say if there is a lot of gas or little gas,” Milici said. “We really won’t know unless industry becomes interested . . . maybe when gas prices are a bit higher.”
State officials said they would ensure any new energy extraction would not harm the environment.
Yeah, that makes me feel good and secure. Pffft!
“We are not aware of any commercially viable deposits in Massachusetts. . . . If there were to be any deposits confirmed in the Commonwealth, we would need to take a close look at their impacts on the environment and public health,’’ said Krista Selmi, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. “Any effort to perform fracking in Massachusetts would have to be done in a way that does not put our water supplies at risk.”
The American Ground Water Trust says on its website that it “is in favor of developing energy resources, provided water resources are not jeopardized.” Stone said that his nonprofit generates money mostly from registration fees from putting on events and conducted a fracking seminar in North Carolina and is holding one in Texas in March.
Stone said the group does not pay speakers and invites environmentalists to make presentations at conferences. While companies can sponsor the group’s events, Stone said, there are no sponsors for Thursday’s seminar. About 50 people registered for the event.
“We believe this will be educational,” Stone said.
Environmentalists were either surprised to learn of the seminar or expressed doubt fracking would come to Western Massachusetts. Shanna Cleveland, a Conservation Law Foundation attorney, said regulations should be developed only if it is clear fracking could take place in Massachusetts.
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Related:
Fracking may hold key to energy independence
Fracking is the new gold rush
Fool's gold.
Effect on consumers unclear as US oil, gas production rise
Cheaper natural gas doesn’t mean lower home heating bills
Why not?
Fuel oil industry feeling the heat
Reliance on natural gas sparks concern
And the environment isn't one of them.
"A COAST TO COAST CALL -- In Washington D.C., (top) thousands gathered on the National Mall asking President Obama to reject an oil pipeline from Canada and to limit carbon pollution from power plants, while in Los Angeles, Native American drummers with the Morning Start Foundation demonstrated at City Hall during a "Forward on Climate" rally (Boston Globe February 18 2013)."
How intere$ting that the Globe only gave you a printed photo there.
"2 costly LNG terminals sit idle; Need vanishes for fuel imports" by Jay Fitzgerald | Globe Correspondent, January 23, 2013
Neither offshore terminal has received a drop of imported fuel in more than two years.
Remember all the hullabaloo about terrorists on the tankers?
Yup, terrorism just another fart-misting piece of agenda-pushing propaganda like global warming.
Now the companies are stuck with $750 million worth of unused buoys and pipes sitting idle in the ocean.
“All that money, and it’s a bust for them,” said Bernie Feeney, president of the Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association, which had opposed the two terminals because they block off a portion of rich marine grounds to fishing.
The companies that built the terminals said they are standing by their investments, noting that fuel costs have a history of fluctuating, and that something as common as a long winter could push prices high enough to justify importing gas again....
A long winter, ha-ha! You guys need to stop sniffing the gas!
What those companies did not foresee was how much their suppliers would be undercut by an even cheaper trove of natural gas: the United States.
Thanks to the controversial drilling technique known as fracking, enormous deposits of natural gas buried in shale rock fields in the Eastern United States have flooded domestic markets in the past few years, cutting fuel prices to a quarter of what they were when the offshore LNG terminals were being built.
“There was a lot of panic and rushing to build new LNG terminals at the time,” said Seth Kaplan, a vice president of the Conservation Law Foundation. “There was no careful thought about whether they were needed — and they weren’t needed.”
Hey, I'm sure it was urgent at the time.
For consumers, such developments are a good thing as New England is now spending much less on energy costs.
But the companies that tied up so much money in the two terminals do not know when they’ll see their investments pay off — if at all — as most energy specialists forecast gas prices to remain at low levels for years to come....
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I'd suggest diesel fuel, but diesel fumes cause cancer.
Also see:
Amid natural gas glut, NStar seeks rate cut
Lower utility profits urged
NStar deal with Cape Wind gets OK
NStar outage snarls Cambridge during rush hour
NStar faces scrutiny over power outages
State fines 3 power providers $25m
Utilities’ storm response seen as improved
