13 hours ago ... A year ago, President Obama set forth his vision of America's energy policy. “We need an energy strategy for the future," he said in a message ...
Link: desmogblog.com
Shipping via LNG, invites domestic gas (shale or other) to the world market and commodity exchanges (i.e.. London). The domestic price will go up allowing for an increase in development and delivery (capital) investment. Those investing will become happy and promote shale gas as an un...
Friday is the proverbial "take out the trash day" for the release of bad news among public relations practitioners and this Friday was no different. In that vein, yesterday the Obama Department of Energy (DOE) announced a conditional approval of the second-ever LNG (liquefied natural ...
Based on our abstract ratings, we found that just over 4,000 papers expressed a position on the cause of global warming, 97.1% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. In the self-ratings, nearly 1,400 papers were rated as taking a position, 97.2% of which endorsed human-caused ...
There are few better examples of a "sacrifice zone " for ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry at-large than Faulkner County, Arkansas and the counties surrounding it. Six weeks have passed since a 22-foot gash in ExxonMobil's Pegasus tar sands Pipeline spilled over 500,000 gallons ...
As the public anxiously awaits the U.S. State Department’s final decision on the fate of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the discussion has largely ignored the elephant in the room: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA.) Thanks to NAFTA, signed into law by President Bill Clinton i...
But even if we ignore Kennan and take the narrow, short-term perspective -- which, it must be pointed out, is the kind of thinking that has gotten us into this mess -- and try to imagine what Obama could have done differently, he still can only get an incomplete (that could convert to...
One of the ugly things I talk about in the book is that up to 77-percent of all of the electricity and potential energy that comes into a power plant via coal, or uranium or gas is wasted by the time it reaches the consumer through conversion loss and line loss. So, I believe we’re le...
The Guardian news outlet is running a series this week on the small Alaskan town of Newtok that is slowly being wiped off the map as the waters rise around it. The Army Corp of Engineers predicts that the highest point in Newtok could be under water by as early as 2017. This is irrefu...
