(Natural News) The wholesale electricity prices in Texas are soaring as the cold snap drastically reduced the state’s power generating capacity. On Monday, spot electricity prices at the West hub surpassed the grid’s $9,000 per megawatt-hour cap, a staggering increase from the average price of $25 per megawatt-hour. The surge is equivalent to the cost of […]

(Natural News) With the worst of the Texas power crisis now behind us, the blame and fingerpointing begins, and while the jury is still out whose actions (or lack thereof) may have led to the deadly and widespread blackouts that shocked Texas this week, Cascend Strategy writes that “in case there was any doubt why the Texas […]

(Natural News) Bill Gow, a conservative cattle rancher who enthusiastically voted for Donald Trump in 2016, is only reluctantly voting for him again in 2020 after learning that the Trump administration has cleared the way for a Canadian gas company to seize Gow’s land through eminent domain in order to build an export pipeline that […]

(Natural News) Once Obama and Biden were out of office, it didn’t take long for President Donald Trump to lead the United States to energy independence. In 2019, the U.S. produced more energy than was consumed; America became energy independent for the first time since 1957. In 2019, fossil fuels accounted for 80 percent of […]

(Natural News) Did you know that in the state of New York there’s a natural gas power plant currently in operation that has its own bitcoin mining rig? It’s known as Greenidge Generation, and about $50,000 dollars’ worth of the virtual cryptocurrency is “mined” there daily using gobs of fossil fuel energy. Located in New […]

(Natural News) For some time now, scientists have theorized that Alaska originally started out as part of Canada’s Arctic archipelago, before continental drift put it where it is today. Now, scientists found evidence that the state may have come from farther to the east, closer to Greenland. The new evidence comes from a geological survey of the […]

(Natural News) Locked deep beneath our oceans, according to scientists, are deposits of frozen methane. Dubbed “fire ice,” these deposits, once released, can trigger large-scale natural catastrophes such as tsunamis and landslides – and scientists and experts currently have no idea how much of these fire ice deposits exist. According to Ann Cook, an associate […]

(Natural News) A “mysterious” disease is wreaking havoc in villages across Ethiopia’s Somali region. In a report published by The Guardian, locals and officials believe that this deadly mystery disease may be linked to a nearby Chinese natural gas project, a claim repudiated by federal government officials in Addis Ababa. In addition, they also denied […]

(Natural News) Climate lunatics are pretty good at coming up with ideas that seem to defy logic, and a recent drive to ban natural gas stoves is a classic example. Cities in largely liberal states like California and Massachusetts have been looking at proposals that will either limit or ban the use of natural gas […]

(Natural News) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is looking to get the most value out of the vast natural gas deposits in North America. It recently provided a big federal grant to Rice researchers, who would come up with an efficient yet inexpensive way to turn methane gas into carbon nanotubes. Being an allotrope, or alternative […]