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DAILY ENERGY NEWS  | 12/09/2025
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"It may be true, as Don Vito Corleone said in The Godfather, that 'one lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.' But one hacker with a computer can steal far more … and bureaucrats with a UN treaty or two can rob us of trillions. The climate and clean energy scam must be terminated – pronto." 

 

– Paul Driessen,
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow

The last time America concerned itself with European mandates was 1776.
 

Wall Street Journal (12/5/25) op-ed: "A North Dakota jury ordered Greenpeace in March to pay pipeline company Energy Transfer $667 million for the environmental group’s rogue campaign to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now, Greenpeace is trying to get a Dutch court to nullify the jury award, which the trial judge reduced to $345 million in October. Energy Transfer is asking the North Dakota Supreme Court to block the activist group’s attempt to end-run the U.S. legal system. If Greenpeace’s efforts succeed, they would harm much more than the pipeline company. They’d open the door for activists to torpedo other American critical infrastructure projects under European law...Greenpeace’s case isn’t an ordinary appeal, in which a party asks a higher court to review a lower court’s application of the law. Rather, Greenpeace is asking a Dutch court to reassess the merits of the North Dakota case under Europe’s sweeping anti-Slapp directive. The case marks the first attempt to apply the law 'extraterritorially' to stymie a lawsuit brought in a country outside the European Union. If the European directive achieves this reach, it would extend the EU’s regulatory imperialism to the political and social spheres where Europe and America follow starkly different legal norms: In a nutshell, Europe’s speech rules are based on values, while America’s are based on rights."

Are insurance companies cutting a fat climate hog?   


The Honest Broker (12/8/25) substack: "We’ve all seen the headlines — such as the below — loudly proclaiming that due to climate change the insurance industry is in crisis, and even that total economic collapse may soon follow. For instance, since 2019, the New York Times, one of the primary champions of this narrative, has published more than 1,250 articles on climate change and insurance...However, it is not just climate advocates promoting the notion that climate change is fundamentally threatening the insurance industry. A climate-risk industrial complex has emerged in this space and a lot of money is being made by a lot of people. The virtuous veneer of climate advocacy serves to discourage scrutiny and accountability...Model inaccuracies, uncertainties, spread, and ambiguity are feature not flaws when it comes to making money. “Climate risk” modeling has resulted in a financial windfall not just for the newly created climate analytics industry, but also for insurers and reinsurers who have seen the envelope of modeled losses expand. The need for new models, of questionabl fidelity, are necessary to satisfy industry guidance and government regulators. The net result has been a seemingly scientific justification for increasing insurance rates."

It's not just the insurance industry scamming fat off the climate hog. 


New York Post (12/3/25) reports: "The scientific journal Nature retracted an influential paper that overestimated the economic toll of climate change – but not until after central banks around the world had used it to create risk management scenarios. The three scientists who worked on the study on Wednesday cited 'substantial' issues with the paper, which was originally published in Nature in April 2024. The article estimated a massive 62% drop in worldwide economic output by 2100 if carbon emissions continue unabated. But earlier this year, a Nature article by a separate team of economists noted that the climate study’s findings were largely skewed by problems with the data for just one country, Uzbekistan...It was also used by the Network for Greening the Financial System last year as it updated its scenarios modeling the expected economic impact of climate change. NGFS is a global network of central banks and financial supervisors with more than 150 members across nearly 90 countries, including the People’s Bank of China, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England – and, until earlier this year, the Federal Reserve."

Don't call it a comeback, coal's been here the whole time.


Oil Price (12/7/25) reports: "As U.S. natural gas prices jumped to a three-year high, coal has become a cheaper power-generating fuel for utilities, which are set to run coal-fired generators harder this winter. U.S. benchmark natural gas prices at Henry Hub have jumped from $4.23 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) at the start of November to above $5 per MMBtu by early December. Early on Friday, the front-month futures price was $5.084 per MMBtu. That’s the highest price in three years, as a polar vortex with freezing temperatures and snowstorms gripped most of the U.S. and as U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports continue to set record highs as new plants ramp up liquefaction and shipments...As a result, soaring U.S. natural gas prices make gas-fired power generation more expensive for electric utilities and some of these are set to boost generation from cheaper coal...Higher natural gas prices are setting the stage for increased coal use, at least in the coming months. But soaring power demand from AI could also support a quiet comeback for coal in the coming years."

Energy Markets

 
WTI Crude Oil: ↓ $58.75
Natural Gas: ↓ $4.76
Gasoline: ↓ $2.94
Diesel: ↓ $3.68
Heating Oil: ↓ $228.30
Brent Crude Oil: ↓ $62.37
US Rig Count: ↑ 578

 
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