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NYTimes Keeps Reporter On Energy Beat Despite Tweet Linking Industry to ‘White Supremacy’

Posted to Energy November 03, 2020 by Todd Shepherd

A New York Times reporter who said the oil and gas industry is linked to white supremacy is still on the energy sector beat, despite complaints she can’t provide objective coverage, emails obtained by InsideSources show.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about fossil fuels and white supremacy recently,” Times climate change reporter Hiroko Tabuchi tweeted on Oct. 1. “Almost every single oil executive, lobbyist, spokesperson I’ve dealt with is white and male. It’s difficult not to see the link.”

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One day after the tweet, a top executive with the American Petroleum Institute emailed Times climate editor Hannah Fairfield, who in turn tried to allay their concerns.

“We agree that the tweets you cited were overly opinionated,” Fairfield said to the executive. “Hiroko herself made the decision to delete them from her account. However, we are confident that her reporting on the industry has been accurate and fair, and has adhered to the high journalistic standards of the New York Times.”

Times executive editor Dean Baquet added in a subsequent email that he and other “senior editors” had consulted with Fairfield about the response. “We believe strongly that we have taken appropriate steps,” Baquet said.

However, there is no indication that the New York Times has taken any steps. Tabuchi is still covering the petroleum industry for the paper.

“I am at a loss in justifying to our executives why we would engage with a reporter who believes our entire industry and its executives are linked to white supremacy, something we strongly denounce,” the API official fired back to Baquet in response.

The official’s name was blacked out in the emails provided to InsideSources by a source close to the matter who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge the emails or speak on the subject.

The API official added that allowing Tabuchi to simply delete the tweet without any correction or apology was “insufficient” and that Tabuchi’s comments were “in direct violation of your own handbook on ethical journalism.”

“Your institution is too good to look the other way on such a blatant lack of professionalism and neutrality,” he continued. “She has lost the confidence of our organization and I imagine any reader who views her troubling comments.”

An online version of the Times handbook for journalists says, “Staff members are free to discuss their own activities in public, provided their comments do not create an impression that they lack journalistic impartiality or speak for The Times.”

A request for comment from the Times was not returned.

Officials with API tell InsideSources they are still under the impression that no further disciplinary action has been taken.

“The reporter’s comments were deeply offensiveand downright wrong about our industry,” said API’s senior vice president of communications Megan Bloomgren.

“We immediately raised the reporter’s comments to the highest levels of the New York Times since they directly violated the paper’s handbook on ethical journalism, and while we exchanged emails and had a meaningful discussion, the copy editing team took no action. Deleting tweets doesn’t delete inherent bias.”

When journalists delete tweets, they often publish an explanation for the deletion. But no such tweet appears to have been sent from Tabuchi to her more than 126,000 followers. Her current Twitter timeline only goes back to September 21, indicating she’s deleted her previous posts.

The simmering controversy over Tabuchi’s tweet illustrates how the social justice issue is being injected into the oil and gas debate as the country is grappling with questions of race and fairness after a summer of protests.

“Police violence and pollution are more connected than you might realize,”Tabuchi said in a since-deleted tweet from September. “This investigation documents how the fossil fuel industry finances police groups in major U.S. cities, while polluting majority Black and brown communities.”

In another deleted tweet, Tabuchi quoted an environmental activist who said, “Fossil fuel facilities are disproportionately — let me say that again, disproportionately — located in communities of color. From southwest Detroit to Baytown, Texas to Cancer Alley in Louisiana, communities of color are in the crosshairs of this pollution.”

Pennsylvania is a top natural gas producer in the country, especially as hydraulic fracturing technologies — usually called “fracking — have come to dominate the field and have unleashed a decade of new productivity for the industry. A 2017 study by API estimated that Pennsylvania is home to 322,600 fracking jobs.

About the Author

Todd Shepherd

Todd Shepherd is editor of the Delaware Valley Journal. He also covers politics and energy policy for InsideSources.

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COVID Hysteria Is The Disease And It Comes From Dirty Politics

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COVID hysteria, the second round at least, is a political disease and it’s being fueled by a compromised media and unethical politicians looking for an edge.

It’s frightening how many ordinary people are being sucked into the whirlwind of COVID hysteria. We see it every hour of every day now as a biased media hoping to score points for their favorite pols and against those they hate hype the data on news cases, while ignoring the reality of the deaths and who is most responsible for them.

Yesterday, on Facebook, I happened to see a commenter extolling the Governor of Pennsylvania and trashing the Governor of Florida because the cases have risen recently in the latter. It was as if Florida was the epitome of recklessness and danger and Pennsylvania was a model of reason. Really? Florida has a population of 21,477,000 and has had 3,731 deaths to date or 17 per 100,000 people. Pennsylvania has a population of 12,801,000 and has had 6,753 deaths or 53 per 100,000 people. Pennsylvania’s death rate across the entire population is over three times that of Florida.

COVID HYSTERIA

Florida’s is also testing at more twice the rate of Pennsylvania. It’s testing 212 people per 100,000 versus 77 per 100,000 persons, so it’s obviously picking up more cases as a result. But, the mortality rate for those tested positive is only 1.9% in Florida and it is 7.2% in Pennsylvania. If you get COVID in the Keystone State, in other words, you are 3.8 times as likely to die.

COVID HYSTERIA

Yes, Florida has had more cases and a higher rate of positives, but so what if your chances of dying from it are roughly one-fourth what they are in Pennsylvania? The idea was to “flatten the curve,” not eliminate it and if younger people are getting it and survive with few symptoms and contribute to community immunity, isn’t that good thing? Of course it is, although there will always be tragic exceptions. That’s the case with the flu, too, but we don’t go into COVID hysteria over the flu; just the WuFlu.

The real danger exists among those who reside in nursing and personal care homes. And, once again, we see why Florida excels compared to Pennsylvania. Floridas has had 1,884 deaths in such facilities or 43 per 100,000 persons of aged 65 year or more. Pennsylvania has had 197 per 100,000 persons of aged 65 year or more. If you’re comparing, that suggests you are, if you’re 65+ like me, and your risks from COVID are 4.7 times greater in Pennsylvania than the Sunshine State. More than two-thirds of Pennsylvania COVID deaths have been in long-term care facilities, in fact, and this accounts for our high death numbers.

COVID HYSTERIA

The reason, of course, is simple. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf followed the example set by his apparent mentor, Andrew Cuomo, who steered the Empire State into 32,206 deaths to date and an 8.1% mortality rate by insanely pushing COVID patients into nursing homes when he had plenty of hospital beds supplied by the Federal government. Meanwhile, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis immediately focused on protecting the most vulnerable; the state’s long-term care residents. Notwithstanding COVID hysteria in the media and among self-serving politicians such as Cuomo, the Florida response has been far superior to Pennsylvania’s, New York’s or New Jersey’s. The Texas and Arizona numbers are also far superior to Pennsylvania; the entire media narrative being

How long will the COVID hysteria continue? As long as the media and politicians arming themselves with it continue to benefit. Sadly, that’s a simple fact. The only cure for this disease is to spread the facts, which is the point of this post.

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The American Sociological Review will publish a study in its October edition linking the documentary film “Gasland” to social movements inspired by it that have arisen in opposition to hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) since the film was released in 2010.

Titled “‘No Fracking Way!’ Documentary Film, Discursive Opportunity, and Local Opposition against Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States, 2010-2013,” the study concludes that “screenings of Gasland in different locations had an effect upon the mobilization of local campaigns against the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing; in turn, those local mobilizations made local policymakers significantly more likely to take action to ban the practice of fracking.”

Fracking industry front groups such as Natural Gas Now and Energy in Depth (EID) responded by attacking the study’s subject: “Gasland.”

In Natural Gas Now’s article titled, “How the Gasland Lies Were Used to Manipulate Public Opinion,” the piece claims to have “discovered that anti-drillers are funding studies to discover how best to fool you.”

“What words, phrases, stories and lies will resonate the best, and move low information types,to oppose fossil fuels,” writes Jim Willis, editor and publisher ofMarcellus Drilling News. “They study it and actually publish their findings (crow about it) for all the world to see!”

Those inspired to ban fracking in their local communities, claims Willis, are simply people who “refuse to think for themselves.” A few paragraphs later, Willis admits he has yet to read the study, before pointing to a few tenuous connections between the study’s funders and their anti-fracking connections.

Natural Gas Now: EID Creation?

Natural Gas Now is “owned and managed by Shepstone Management Company” run by Tom Shepstone, a former Energy In Depth employee. EID is a shale gas industry front group created in 2009 by the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA).

From its first days online, Natural Gas Now has devoted vast bandwidth to “Gasland.” In 2011 — back when Shepstone worked as a campaign manager for EID-Marcellus — Natural Gas Now had a section of its website linking to numerous websites claiming to debunk the Academy Award-nominated film.

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Many of those were links to Energy in Depth web portals, including an article titled, “No Second Acts for Gasland” and another titled, “Marcellus Landowners Put Gasland Under the Microscope,” with another link to an article written by Shepstone. Natural Gas Now has written dozens of blog posts smearing “Gasland.”

The original Natural Gas Now website is still up as a portal on the Shepstone Management Company website.

Image Credit: Natural Gas Now]

“I’m pleased to say I’m funded by various members of the industry and landowners who understand how incredibly important natural gas development is to rural area like the one I live in,” Shepstone told DeSmog when asked who funds his work. “I don’t disclose my individual donors, of course.”

EID Weighs In

Perhaps unsurprisingly, EID also weighed in on the study, with a headline blaring “Study: Junk Science Film ‘Pivotal’ to Anti-Fracking Movement.” The article compared the anti-fracking movement to the anti-vaccine movement.

“The bottom line is that this new study finds that the anti-fracking movement is based on a fraud – on a flaming faucet and hose that had absolutely nothing to do with fracking and everything to do with spreading false information to incite fear in the public,” wrote EID‘s Katie Brown, a former spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), a climate change denier.

“This this is not unlike what we’ve seen with the anti-vaccine movement, which was based solely on one dubious study that was retracted after it received so much criticism. The only difference here is that anti-fracking activists are still celebrating Gasland as their Bible!”

The industry-funded pro-fracking attack dogs, clearly, are again on the loose.

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The Price of Cuomo's Pipeline Political Correctness: "No Gas for You"

4 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. Andrew Cuomo is a mindless demagogue. His pipeline political correctness is making ConEd tell natural gas customers they may have to say “No Gas for You.”A reader sent me a New York Post editorial yesterday entitled “Thanks to Cuomo, Con Ed may have to stop taking new customers.” It’s an excellent piece and right to the point; Andrew Cuomo’s demagogic pipeline political correctness is taking ConEd customers to the brink. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

A Reflection on the Wannabe Kings of Environmentalism Activism

4 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

Independence Day should be a time of reflection on our Declaration. Lincoln had some thoughts in that regard that apply today to environmental activism. Environmental activism has, over time, become ever more radical and intolerant. Its adherents are, too, ever more intent upon imposing their will on others (for the latter’s own good, of course). Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

The Undermining Role and Unfair Influence of Tax-Exempt Foundations

4 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

Tax-exempt foundations, especially supposed charities, are undermining our energy security and exercising completely unfair influence over government policy. A new study, financed by a foundation itself, is out from Northeastern University that provides some much needed perspective on the role of tax-exempt foundations in fractivism. The study is entitled “Strategic philanthropy in the post‐Cap‐and‐Trade years: Reviewing U.S. climate and energy foundation funding” and is available here. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

Loathsome Eric Schneiderman Loses in Court and Lambasted in the Press

4 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

New Yorkers keep electing one loathsome Attorney General after another; bullies skilled in mean-spirited demagoguery. Was Eric Schneiderman the worst? The headline last night about four women accusing Eric Schneiderman of physical violence has quickly ended the New York Attorney General’s political career. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

A Tangled Web Emerges as PennEast Opponents Practice to Deceive

5 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

A recent article in The Daily Signal exposed the tangled web created by PennEast opponents as they have practiced to deceive in their pipeline enmity. Kevin Mooney did fantastic job with an article the other day at The Daily Signal. Extremely well written and balanced with comments from all sides, it laid bare the deceptions practiced by PennEast opponents. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

FERC Slaps Down the Little Napoleon, Eric Schneiderman

5 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

NRDC lap dog Eric Schneiderman was given a dog’s breakfast by FERC last week when the agency dismissed his ridiculous request for a tree-cutting hearing. No, I’m not talking about that Napoleon, the Emperor produced by the French Revolution, but the famous pig from George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The character was seemingly created with Eric Schneiderman in mind, given his tactics. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

Cynicism at Work: The New York Energy Game

6 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

Politics is often little more than pure cynicism. The New York energy game provides a perfect illustration. Nothing is what it seems. New York’s Governor Corruptocrat, Andrew Cuomo, is as cynical a politician as has ever occupied such a high position. He is utterly without shame. This is nowhere more evident than in the way he’s played the New York energy game. A series of recent news stories illustrate. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

Schneiderman Caught Up in Collusion and Coverup Caper

6 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a NRDC lap dog, is caught up in an episode of collusion and coverup that should be prosecuted. Is this the smoking gun that proves collusion and corruption between Democrat New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and radical Big Green groups such as NRDC? Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

"We Concede There's No Toxic Content"

6 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

Dimock plaintiffs’ attorney, Leslie Lewis, admitted (again) to the court yesterday that “there’s no toxic content of the water that has been tested out.”Yesterday’s events in court in Scranton further revealed the bumbling incompetence of the Dimock plaintiffs and, especially, their attorney. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

Tom Wolf Launches Fight Against...Well, EveryoneNatural Gas Now

7 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

Tom Wolf is one angry man. His fight for a severance tax is not going down well and he has lashed out, launching a fight against every business and industry in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf did something absolutely stunning yesterday – he let his anger get the best of him and declared war on every private business and industry throughout the Commonwealth. He attacked builders. He attacked contractors. He attacked loggers. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

Gov. Wolf; Your Severance Tax Is A Loser All the Way Down

7 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

Gov. Wolf needs to rethink his severance tax. We won’t help Pennsylvania by adding costs to the one industry that has lifted it during tough economic times. Gov. Wolf, you’re killing my chances to find a new oil and gas industry job. You see, Gov. Wolf, the industry is already under pricing pressure and cost cuts that have resulted in my layoff from a services company involved in shale work. Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

Et Tu Andrew? Cuomo's Fracking Betrayal of the Southern Tier - Natural Gas NowNatural Gas Now

7 YEARS AGO | By Tom Shepstone | naturalgasnow.org

Andrew Cuomo’s decision to ban fracking in New York State is nothing less than a fracking betrayal of an entire generation of Upstate New Yorkers. It’s tar and feathers time. Could there be any more blatant example of the cynicism that characterizes New York politics than Governor Cuomo’s decision to go against the tide of every other oil and gas state than his decision today to ban fracking in the state? Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

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A new method of firing power plants promises to deliver zero emission natural gas. Do fractivists really want to save the planet? This will be the test! A Forbes article out today puts fractivists to the test. Entitled “Net Zero Natural Gas Plant — The Game Changer,” it turns their arguments upside down. It promises the real possibility of zero emissions natural gas power plants on a net basis. Fractivists relying upon “saving the planet” as their excuse for opposing natural gas be forced to the test. Coal to natural gas conversions have been part of the solution, the only part making a difference, but now that contribution promises to be dwarfed by a new way to combust gas. The article is a must read in its entirety but here a few brief excerpts: The process involves burning fossil fuel with oxygen instead of air to generate electricitywithout emitting any carbon dioxide (CO2). Not using air also avoids generating NOx, the main atmospheric and health contaminant emitted from gas plants… Read more: https://naturalgasnow.org/zero-emission-natural-gas-here-do-fractivists-want-to-save-the-planet/A new method of firing power plants promises to deliver zero emission natural gas. Do fractivists really want to save the planet? This will be the test! A Forbes article out today puts fractivists to the test. Entitled “Net Zero Natural Gas Plant — The Game Changer,” it turns their arguments upside down. It promises the real possibility of zero emissions natural gas power plants on a net basis. Fractivists relying upon “saving the planet” as their excuse for opposing natural gas be forced to the test. Coal to natural gas conversions have been part of the solution, the only part making a difference, but now that contribution promises to be dwarfed by a new way to combust gas. The article is a must read in its entirety but here a few brief excerpts: The process involves burning fossil fuel with oxygen instead of air to generate electricitywithout emitting any carbon dioxide (CO2). Not using air also avoids generating NOx, the main atmospheric and health contaminant emitted from gas plants… Read more: https://naturalgasnow.org/zero-emission-natural-gas-here-do-fractivists-want-to-save-the-planet/

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Democrats Abandon Union Workers to Appease “Green” Elites

RGGI is just the latest example of Democrats abandoning union workers to please elite cocktail friends and special interests invested in “green” energy.

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RGGI Politics Funded by Dark Money and Special Interests

Gene Yaw reminds readers that dark money and special interests have, by fiat from Tom Wolf, imposed RGGI—a job-killing, price-raising carbon tax—on consumers.

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RGGI Politics Funded by Dark Money and Special Interests

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Fritz Bills to EndDRBC Tyranny Pass: Senate Action Needed!

PA State Rep. Jon Fritz is a leader and his bills to end the DRBC fracking bans and bring this corrupt agency to heel have passed. Now we need the Senate!

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Fritz Bills to End DRBC Tyranny Pass: Senate Action Needed!

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SMC is also an advocate of natural gas development and has coordinated the assembly of leasehold interests as well as testimony on behalf of such development. Shepstone Management Company, Inc. (SMC) has specialized in market research, economic development and land use planning, having developed and assisted with the administration of land use regulations in dozens of communities. The firm has operated primarily in New York and Pennsylvania but has extensive experience in representing clients throughout the Northeast, Midwest and California. SMC has assisted several communities and counties with economic development planning and preparation of agricultural economic development plans.

It regularly works with Industrial Development Agencies on benefit/cost analyses and packaging of applications for financial assistance. It also assisted the Catskill Watershed Corporation in developing a 5-county strategy for use of $60,000,000 in New York City funds provided for economic development. SMC has helped many communities in NY and PA prepare Comprehensive Plans, Zoning Ordinances and Subdivision Regulations. It is also frequently retained to appear as an expert witness on behalf of clients including testimony before the Liquor Control Board, United States Federal Court, the Public Utility Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Pennsylvanaia and Maryland State Legislatures as well as the state courts and various local agencies. Testimony is usually related to demographics and development activity. SMC has also prepared a number of feasibility studies and market research reports for private development projects, including convenience stores, housing and assisted living projects, meat processing facilities, retail enterprises and branch banks. SMC's transportation work has included detailed traffic impact reports for large residential and commercial development and assistance in establishing shortline railroad operations in several states. SMC is also an advocate of natural gas development and has coordinated the assembly of leasehold interests as well as testimony on behalf of such development.…see more

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The Weekly Word: Wet and dry gas, NY fracs and the Marcellus

ThisWeekly Word with Jason Spiessand the professor Stephen Heins hosts Tom Shepstone from Pennsylvania, who is an urban consultant, community planner, researcher and advisor for zoning and land use in the Northeast of the U.S.

Shepstone began the conversation by providing a history of the Appalachian Basin over the last 10years. Shepstone described the Fracking Revolution as a “miracle” through the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Spiess mentioned that he had published a piece about the disparity between the Bakken Basin and Marcellus Basin, where he talked about the “wet” gas (mainly oil with 7-9 kinds of other gas) of the Bakken and the “dry” gas (predominantly consisting of natural gas with fewer other kinds of gas) of the Marcellus.

Spiess asked why New York City was using so much natural gas from the Marcellus and Shepstone replied that dry gas is mainly natural gas and not oil, so that the low cost of sending the natural gas 100 miles without the need to be processed is compelling.

Then, Heins asked Shepstone why the New Your Governor and the current Mayor of NYC are so adamantly anti-fossil fuel and anti-pipeline. Shepstone pointed out that the previous Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, was the one chiefly responsible for the large emission reductions achieved by transitioning the City from the use of dirty Number 6 oil to the Marcellus natural gas. Rhetorically, Heins wondered why neither the NY Governor and NYC Mayor ever mention that fact. Shepstone observed that the NY urban area has 3 or4 times the population of upstate NY. He went on to say that urban populations rarely know much about oil or natural gas and their production.

Spiess spoke about the phenomenon of the “professional protester” at the recent pipeline protests. Both, Heins and Shepstone have noticed that there were many of the same faces at different protests, with Tom saying “have cause will travel.” Spiess responded that climate change has become far too sensationalized with far too much fear-mongering. Shepstone thought that many of the protesters may simply be attention seeking. Spiess called it the “religion of environmentalism.”

On another note, Heins mentioned the great job that Spiess has been doing by telling the story of Bakken through average North Dakotans who work and benefit from the Shale Revolution. Instead of “mushy” news release by the private sector, Shepstone believes that the only way to change the fossil fuel demagoguery to a more thoughtful discussion will be through beating them in court.

While talking about the science of fracking, Heins concluded that the large NGO’s seem to be the only groups who are being anti-science, especially when it serves their purposes. Finally, Shepstone thought that this “Weekly Word” segment got to root of these complex issues better than any in which he had been a participant.

The Weekly Word: Wet and dry gas, NY fracs and the Marcellus

By Stephen Heins|January 30th, 2018|Categories: Energy, The Weekly Word|Tags: Bakken, Marcellus, Tom Shepstone, wet and dry gas|Comments Off