Daily Standup Top Stories Dimon Calls Push to Stop All Oil and Gas Enormously Naïve April 8, 2024 Mariel Alumit Jamie Dimon said US delays of liquefied natural gas projects were done for political reasons to pacify those who believe oil and gas projects should simply be stopped — a position he calls “wrong” and “enormously […] Environmentalists […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Mounting Losses Mean Sweden’s Wind Industry Faces Total Financial Collapse March 29, 2024 Stu Turley Notwithstanding €billions in subsidies, Sweden’s embattled wind industry is on the brink of total financial collapse. The majority of Swedish wind power outfits are underwater, bleeding cash and have no hope of recovery. In the […] Solar […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Mass casualties feared as boxship takes out bridge in Baltimore – other coal and exports blocked March 26, 2024 Stu Turley Many are feared dead in Baltimore following a dramatic bridge collapse tonight after the 9,962 teu Dali containership smashed directly into one of the bridge’s pillars. The Maryland Transportation Authority and […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Big Tech’s Latest Obsession Is Finding Enough Energy March 24, 2024 Stu Turley HOUSTON—Every March, thousands of executives take over a downtown hotel here to reach oil and gas deals and haggle over plans to tackle climate change. This year, the dominant theme of the energy industry’s flagship […] Sunday’s Energy Absurdity: When […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories California: We Need *Another* $100 Billion for High-Speed Rail – What is a few billion between friends? ‘March 17, 2024 Stu Turley source: Hot Air: Ed Morrissey: Hey, a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. But apparently not real progress. When I first […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Energy Giants Create Global Synthetic Natural Gas Coalition March 20, 2024 Mariel Alumit Supermajor TotalEnergies, another French energy giant, Engie, and U.S. Sempra Infrastructure have announced plans to create a global coalition to support the production and use of e-natural gas (e-NG), a synthetic natural gas produced from renewable hydrogen […] Deutschland: How Germany Is […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories CERAWEEK-BIG OIL EXECUTIVES PUSH BACK AGAINST CALLS FOR FAST ENERGY TRANSITION March 19, 2024 Mariel Alumit HOUSTON, March 18 (Reuters) – Top oil executives took to the stage of a major energy conference on Monday to vocally oppose calls for a quick move away from fossil fuels, saying society would pay a steep cost […] Up […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories California: We Need *Another* $100 Billion for High-Speed Rail – What is a few billion between friends? \’March 17, 2024 Stu Turley source: Hot Air: Ed Morrissey: Hey, a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. But apparently not real progress. When I first […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories U.S. Northeast Gasoline Reserve Could Be Sold Off March 4, 2024 Mariel Alumit The U.S. could sell off its 1-million-barrel Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve in the fiscal year of 2024, a funding bill up for discussion at U.S. Congress says. Under the draft text of the bill, “the Secretary […] US funding bill blocks […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories U.S. Electricity Generation by Source in 2023: Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Petroleum February 27, 2024 Mariel Alumit By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Electricity generation, as measured in gigawatt-hours, has gotten hammered by a near-stagnation in demand since 2007, as efforts to make everything more efficient have produced results for […]
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