The EPA’s sabotage of American development and prosperity continues, this time by attempting to strangle cheap and abundant gas supplies Continue reading
Daily Archives: January 9, 2012
Big push this year by anti-development, anti-energy groups
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Posted in Development, EPA, Fracking
Booker: Huhne Is Piling On The Make-Believe
The UK Government’s latest report on future energy supply is a tissue of unproved assumptions and wishful thinking Continue reading
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Posted in Clean energy, Coal, Costs and benefits, Energy efficiency, Fracking, Green hell, Nuclear power, Oil and gas
Obama restricts access to another ‘low carbon’ energy source
The Obama administration is banning new hard rock mining on more than a million acres known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Development, Land use, Nuclear power, Uranium mining, World resources
Wind power is expensive and ineffective
Wind power could actually produce more CO2 than gas and increase domestic fuel bills because of the need for “back up” power stations Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Sustainability
Robert Bradley Jr.: On Sustainable Energy (Part I)
Feared mineral depletion and the false allure of renewables have colored energy economics and public policy from the beginning Continue reading
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Posted in Biofuels, Coal, Oil and gas, Renewable fuel, Sustainability
Ethanol Industry Finds A Subsidy It Still Likes
Just think, at this pace, after another 2-3 decades of timely, critical subsidies for the cellulosic ethanol industry they might be able to make a tiny dent in our oil consumption. Continue reading
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Posted in Biofuels, Renewable fuel
The Ethanol Shuffle: U.S. Importing, Exporting Ethanol To and From Brazil
The California tail wags the ethanol donkey. Continue reading
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Posted in Biofuels
Obama admin to Supremes on wetlands fines: Trust us
Antonin Scalia has little patience for government reassurances. Continue reading
Posted in Land use
Brainless Branson: Corporate Social Responsibility (Part 2)
“Corporate social responsibility” is a bust. Continue reading
Posted in Corporate social responsibility
Brainless Branson: Biofuels (Part 1)
The very fortunate Richard Branson should just take his money and run. Continue reading
Posted in Biofuels
Wind operators to plan around bats?
“When the wind blows” may no longer be enough for wind turbine operators; it may have also have to be “when the bats don’t fly.” Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Alito: EPA is ‘outrageous’
It’s a good thing for EPA that Clarence Thomas never says anything at oral argument. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
‘Doctors’ call for fracking moratorium?
Note also the attempted shakedown of the fracking industry for research funding. Continue reading
Posted in Fracking
Poll: Santorum vs. Sierra Club
The Sierra Club accused Rick Santorum today of “choosing polluters over public health.” But just exactly who is the greater threat to humanity? Take our poll. Continue reading
Posted in Battle of 2012, Population
Supremes hostile to EPA in wetlands case
EPA appears likely to lose. Continue reading
Posted in Land use
Scientists Refute Greenpeace Claims About GM Corn
“Despite the Greenpeace claim, the [western bean cutworm] is neither “new” nor has it caused “massive damage” recently.” Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Worry: Next ice age delayed by 20,000+ years
We’ll have to wait and see. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Greens: Air conditioning a threat to energy security
We’d vote to keep air conditioning and to bounce the greens off the island. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Green hell
Sock Puppet Video: Newt debates Newt on climate
Another from the Sierra Club. Continue reading
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Posted in Battle of 2012
