by Matt Garrington On Wednesday, Rep. Doc Hastings led a full oversight hearing focused on President Obama’s now-lifted Gulf of Mexico moratorium to examine “lingering impacts on jobs, energy production and local economies.” Meanwhile, Hastings continues to waste taxpayer money on oversight hearings for problems that don’t exist. Domestic oil production and energy jobs are… Read more »
Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate IN CASE YOU MISSED IT DISCLOSING THE ‘TRUE TIES’ OF OP-ED WRITERS Fifty current and former journalists, media professors and media professionals joined The Checks and Balances Project to The New York Times to end the pervasive practice of industry-funded… Read more »
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer and Sen. Bernie Sanders take on oil speculators: “These are some of the most powerful people in the world. They make huge amounts of campaign contributions. They have lobbyists running around all over this place,” [Sen. Saunders] said. “What they do not want is the American people to understand that the… Read more »
Today, 50 current and former journalists, media professors and media professionals joined The Checks and Balances Project to ask the New York Times to end the pervasive practice of industry-funded pundits placing opinion pieces that favors their funders, without these financial ties being disclosed to readers. Through http://www.trueties.org, petitioners can ask the New York Times… Read more »
Yesterday, The Checks and Balances Project sent a letter to Jim Narva, the Executive Director of the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) and a for-profit consultant on fire issues, to inquire about potential conflicts of interest. Based on a tip that clients from Mr. Narva’s private consulting firm have hired him because of… Read more »
From earthquakes to poisoning drinking water this image spells out all the concerns An info graphic posted on CleanTechnica outlines the concerns that people around the world are raising about hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking – as it is commonly called, is an industrial process where poisonous chemicals are mixed with water and injected… Read more »
Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate IN CASE YOU MISSED IT FUNNY NUMBERS FROM WESTERN ENERGY ALLIANCE The Western Energy Alliance chose to ignore market forces in its analysis of public lands leasing data. According to the EIA, the wellhead price of natural gas has been fluctuating… Read more »
By Andrew Schenkel For more than a year the gas industry has been at war with those raising concerns about the hydraulic fracturing process. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking as many know it, is a process where large quanties of a water/chemical mixture are injected at high pressures into the ground to get at previously inaccessible… Read more »
New developments suggest former Clinton staffer dodged rules while lobbying Congress New developments from Washington, DC reveal that lobbyists for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline acted inappropriately while trying to gain support for the crude pipeline that would connect the Alberta Tar Sands with the Gulf of Mexico. Recent reports show that a chief lobbyist… Read more »
Last week, Rep. Raul Grijalva and Sen. Tom Udall released a copy of their request for a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation to determine if Americans are receiving a fair return on the oil, gas, and hardrock minerals extracted from public lands. This could prove to be an important step to shining the spotlight and… Read more »
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