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DAILY ENERGY NEWS  | 02/13/2025
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Congratulations, Kathleen, and thank you for stepping up. There isn't a better person for this job at this moment.


Bloomberg (2/12/25) reports: "Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, is President Donald Trump’s nominee for Bureau of Land Management director, according to the Congressional record. As president of Denver-based WEA since 2006, Sgamma represented and advocated for oil and gas producers that operate on federal lands in the West. Sgamma’s nomination is part of Trump’s agenda to expand fossil fuels development on federal land nationwide. The BLM manages more than 240 million acres of federal land, mainly in the West, and manages all federally-owned oil, gas, and minerals nationwide. Sgamma confirmed her nomination when reached by email Wednesday. Sgamma has long been an outspoken advocate for oil and gas drilling on federal land, and WEA under her leadership prolifically litigated the Biden administration’s public lands conservation efforts, including its failure to hold quarterly oil and gas lease sales. Sgamma’s nomination is part of Trump’s agenda to expand fossil fuels development on federal land nationwide."

"We’re the pro-business party. So anytime an entity has made a significant investment [in carbon removal services], you don’t pull the rug out from underneath their feet." 

 

– Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

Let's hope the administration is saving some room at Gitmo for green terrorists and their funders.


Appalachian News Express (2/12/25) reports: "Activists have smashed water-filled display cases exhibiting typhoon-wrecked belongings at Shell’s HQ - in protest to demand the oil giant pays for climate damages. Greenpeace UK took hammers to an ‘exhibition’ surrounding Shell’s London headquarters - displaying the belongings of Filipino communities wrecked by typhoons that have struck there. The protest art installation titled 'Breaking Point: Untold Stories of Climate Loss and Damage' was set up by a team of 77 activists early this morning (12 February)...The activists then swept the broken glass into the doorways of the Shell Centre, using traditional Filipino brooms called ‘tambo’, before walking away and leaving all the belongings with Shell."

Energy taxes never make sense, but the Canadian experiment is especially cruel.


Niagara Independent (2/11/25) reports: "Canadians are opening their home heating bills with a sense of dread this month, thanks to the carbon tax. Every politician haunting the warm halls of power should read the painful experiences of Canadians who are fighting to afford the basics. Those politicians should ask themselves why any Canadian should be forced to pay the carbon tax for one more minute on an essential like home heating. When the Canadians Taxpayers Federation asked people to post pictures of their heating bills to show their real cost of the carbon tax, we got more than a thousand replies. Some of the messages are tough to read. 'I haven’t been able to afford to fill my propane tank this year, just hoping that no heat doesn’t make my house go mouldy,' Jay told the CTF. He works as a chef just outside of Victoria, British Columbia. Others are astonishing. 'Our bookkeeper nearly choked, thanks for bringing light to the madness,' Chris wrote while sharing the carbon tax bill for the pub he runs in Peterborough, Ontario. His natural gas bill from last month has a carbon tax charge of $1,044...In Northern Ontario, where temperatures typically drop to -20 overnight, a young mom, Kelly, posted her household’s December natural gas bill showing a $134 carbon tax charge. The list goes on. In Manitoba, where winter resembles the ice planet Hoth from Star Wars, the carbon tax on home heating is severe."

How many birds must die on the way to green utopia?


Mish Talk (2/9/25) blog: "How many more ridiculous green energy projects will fail? The answer is all of them, in due time. Here are the latest spectacular failures. It took 10 years, and hundreds-of-thousands of dead birds, before the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California would meet its fate...There are 525,600 minutes in a year. At one fried bird every two minutes, assuming sunshine 50 percent of the time (more in summer and less in winter), that’s 525,600 / 4 or roughly 131,400 dear birds per year. Over 10 years that would be 1.31 million dead birds. Ouch!...It’s not just solar. Also note that Shell just backed out of a wind-energy project despite huge subsidies...The Institute for Energy Research notes Broken Windmill Blade Closes Nantucket Beaches. 'A massive wind turbine blade shattered offshore Massachusetts causing extensive debris, which shut down beaches on Nantucket Island and caused serious concern to fishermen, who worried that the debris could damage their boats.'...The American Bird Conservancy estimates approximately 538,000 wind turbine-caused bird deaths occur in the U.S. each year. Raptors like Golden Eagles and nighttime migratory songbirds are particularly vulnerable. That estimate is from 2021. So double or triple it. But skeptics point out cats kill 2.4 billion birds a year. And 200 million birds are allegedly killed by automobiles each year."

Energy Markets

 
WTI Crude Oil: ↓ $70.35
Natural Gas: ↑ $3.66
Gasoline: ↑ $3.16
Diesel: ↑ $3.67
Heating Oil: ↑ $240.86
Brent Crude Oil: ↓ $74.18
US Rig Count: ↓ 592

 
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