Posted on 03/07/2020 8:50:16 PM PST by caww
After years of ideologues and elites using the natural gas industry as a punching bag for politics and climate change activism, Nick DeIuliis, the CEO of CNX Resources, one of the largest natural gas producers in Western Pa., has had enough.
At a Rotary Club speech in downtown Pittsburgh the blue-collar man who earned degrees in engineering and law, and his job at the top, decided to speak out 'to defend an industry' that has become a regional economic game-changer. ........“Natural gas and manufacturing have been demonized and ridiculed on a consistent and regular basis 'by a cabal of misguided, insulated elites'” DeIuliis stated in front of 80 of the region’s top business and professional leaders.
The usually reserved DeIuliis decided to speak out because he was tired of the natural gas and manufacturing industries being held to a completely different standard than other industries, tired of being used a political wedge issue, and tired of the people working with him being portrayed as the enemy of the well-being of our climate.
“Natural gas has not just been a massive success for the region, it has been a massive success for our country and the world," .. "I want to set the story straight on what's occurring with this industry. It is disruptive technology; not since Jonas Salk has this region been able to deliver as positive of a step change to society as what it's been able to do with natural gas."
Democrats running for president this past year have vacillated between a number of candidates who plan to destroy or cripple the shale oil and gas industry, and it hasn't escaped DeIuliis's notice.
“While I have used the words extremist and leftist to described the haters of this industry, this is not a partisan issue," said DeIuliis.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It would be awesome if the Pittsburg area became a Republican stronghold.
Not much FR love for Salena Zito these days, neh?
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I lived in Pittsburgh both before and after the shale revolution. Pittsburgh was a dying town before shale. Oh sure it had education and health care as large industries, but it was still dying. I have no idea how Pittsburgh, of all places, can see shale as a bad thing.
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