Originally published in the Houston Chronicle, Sunday, September 6, 2020: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Comment-Diverse-resources-and-stable-energy-15547818.php As a boy, I rattled around West Texas in a pickup with my favorite roughneck, my Uncle Rex, a sun-weathered, charismatic storyteller who operated heavy equipment in the Permian oil patch. He was proud of his role in growing this state and he loved to tellContinue reading “Clark: Diverse Resources and Stable Energy Policies Will Get Texas Economy Back on Track”
Category Archives: Natural Gas
Free Markets and Infrastructure Give Texas a Cleaner Power Grid
Original Publication: https://www.mrt.com/opinion/article/Free-markets-infrastructure-give-Texas-cleaner-13920301.php For many years, policymakers in Washington have struggled to manufacture a workable policy that addresses the serious challenges we face from our changing climate without raising Americans’ energy bills. They could learn a few things from Texas. The Lone Star State has demonstrated how to increase production of affordable and reliable power byContinue reading “Free Markets and Infrastructure Give Texas a Cleaner Power Grid”
Oklahoma Wind Coalition: Hypocritical Anti-Wind Ads Obscure Truth,
Originally published on NonDoc.com. Every Oklahoman has seen the ads on TV: A former governor and a former football coach serve as pitchmen for the state’s oil-funded anti-wind lobby. The ads are like a great football play. They’re hiding the ball, tricking the viewer, running a trick play straight from the hypocrite’s playbook. It’s called theContinue reading “Oklahoma Wind Coalition: Hypocritical Anti-Wind Ads Obscure Truth,”
Low Natural Gas Prices, Not Wind Energy, Primarily Responsible for Coal’s Troubles
A repost from “Into the Wind”, blog of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) by Michael Goggin As we’ve observed previously, a common tactic when an energy source is facing market headwinds is to blame wind energy for its problems. Just as some nuclear power plant owners previously tried to blame wind energy for theirContinue reading “Low Natural Gas Prices, Not Wind Energy, Primarily Responsible for Coal’s Troubles”
Natural Gas and Renewables, A Partnership With Which Coal Can’t Compete
By Jeffrey Clark http://eecn.johnshopkins.edu/index.php/2016/11/15/1512/#ixzz4VtCXZCTF In an ugly weekend for Texas football fans, the Longhorns were defeated by the West Virginia Mountaineers. Sitting in the stadium, I reflected on our just-ended Presidential election in which energy issues – particularly the promise of a coal renaissance – played a major role. I was struck by the biggerContinue reading “Natural Gas and Renewables, A Partnership With Which Coal Can’t Compete”
Commentary from United States Senator Chris Coons: The Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act
by United States Senator Chris Coons (D-A bill to level the playing field by giving investors in renewable energy projects access to a decades-old corporate structure with a tax advantage now available only to investors in fossil fuel-based energy projects Download At a time when the United States needs to increase domestic energy production andContinue reading “Commentary from United States Senator Chris Coons: The Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act”