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As the crisis of rolling blackouts in Texas unfolds this week, some of the state’s loudest Republican politicians are falsely dragging “frozen wind turbines” as the cause. But behind every wind energy smear by a Texas politician is a dizzying amount of money contributed by the fossil fuel industry.
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Earther looked at whose money is behind the loudest anti-wind voices this week. We used OpenSecrets data as well as individual political donations logged with the Federal Election Commission website to look at donations for Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, and Sen. John Cornyn–three of the Texas politicians sitting in Washington, D.C., who have been most outspoken in their criticism of wind energy’s supposed “role” in the blackouts.
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Pipeline giant Energy Transfer made quite a splash yesterday during its 4Q and full-year 2020 update by announcing the company has cut a deal to buy Enable Midstream for $7.2 billion. That deal, while important, has nothing to do with the M-U region. We were interested in talk about the company's Mariner East (ME) pipeline system and Marcus Hook terminal and there was plenty of talk about those important assets too. Co-CEO Tom Long said he expects the last pieces of ME to finally be done in the second quarter of this year. During the conference call with analysts, Long had this to say about ME and Marcus Hook: Now let's turn to our Mariner system. Fourth quarter 2020 NGL volumes through the Mariner East pipeline system increased more than 30% over the fourth quarter of 2019. Utilization of our Mariner pipelines and our Marcus Hook Terminal remained strong in the fourth quarter across all products. The system continues to demonstrate flexible optionality for shippers including