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Energy & Environmental Review: November 9, 2026

By -- November 9, 2026

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.

Unreliables (General):
*** The core issues with “renewables”

Wind Energy:
Upstate NY Wind Project Caught in a Trap as New York’s Climate Bureaucrats Let It Build Wind Turbines It May Not Be Able to Operate!
US Gov’t Seeks New Review of US Wind’s Maryland Project

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Power at ‘Warp Speed’: Magical Thinking Meets Statism

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Newsom’s green agenda DOES NOT meet California’s fuel demands
Qatar Poised to Become Top Overseas Buyer Of American Gas As Iran War Chokes Its Own Exports

Miscellaneous Energy News:
Trump announces end of Biden-era methane rule, citing $45B in savings
Fermi Inc.…

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‘Done in Oil’ by J. Howard Marshall II (book excerpts)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 5, 2026

“Many big shots in the business, who later denied it, literally prayed for us amateurs in government to ‘save us else we perish.’ A few years later, when most of them found salvation, few sinners remembered their prayers. Such is human nature.”

Earlier this year, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) launched Fueling America: 250 Years of Energy Innovation. A major part of this project is brief biographies on major and lesser-known industry pioneers. One biography was done on J. Howard Marshall II, whose book Done in Oil was published in 1996 by Texas A&M Press. I edited and wrote the introduction for this book, which was a rare opportunity in the field of industry history.

Unfortunately, Texas A&M Press had a woke, humorless editor (she is now a Deacon at St.…

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‘Imagine 2200’: Grist Climate Fiction

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 4, 2026

“I’ll take my chances with energy freedom. I fear the energy dystopia of Climate Big Brother.”

Grist, “an independent nonprofit newsroom that’s spent 25 years telling the truth about our planet,” is now in the climate fiction business. Imagine 2200 is premised on “a core belief: The world we need has to be imagined before it can be built.” Grist’s Image 2200 Creative Manager Tory Stephens continues:

We are living through a moment where the stories being told about the future are shrinking, and the space to imagine something different is being crowded out by fear and despair. Imagine 2200 is an antidote: a global climate-fiction initiative in which writers from more than 90 countries have imagined new futures, shaped by justice and resilience, and informed by the real-world solutions already in motion.

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“Energy is Prosperity” (Claire Coutinho speaks to the UK people)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 3, 2026
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Overshoot? Neo-Malthusian Pleas

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 2, 2026
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Cleaned-up Coal: Part of Fossil Fuel Sustainability

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John ‘Halloween’ Holdren Remembered (exaggeration, failed prognostications should not be forgotten)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 30, 2026
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Data Centers Soar Despite Opposition

By Steve Goreham -- October 29, 2026
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Climate Anxiety? Just Teach Both Sides (a cure in waiting)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 28, 2026
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‘Green’ Energy Tradeoffs

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 27, 2026
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