Despite what Big Oil and their allies in Congress would have you believe, westerners support protecting our environment. In fact, a Colorado College poll recently presented to members of Congress in June shows that two-thirds of westerners believe that protections for our land, air, and water should be strengthened or that environment laws should be… Read more »
Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ON THE ROSY SIDE OF SHALE GAS This week, The New York Times uncovered serious skepticism within the Energy Information Administration (EIA) about the actual potential for shale gas development in the United States. In one… Read more »
Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate IN CASE YOU MISSED IT BROWN ADS BANNED The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority last week banned a set of ads from 350.org for being too controversial. The ads demonstrate the influence dirty energy corporations have over members of Congress. In… Read more »
Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate IN CASE YOU MISSED IT WHAT’S YOUR ENERGY IQ? Energy analyst and cofounder of the Association of Peak Oil & Gas USA, Randy Udall, challenged industry representatives and pro-oil shale politicians on their knowledge of energy production in America in The… Read more »
Nina Pierpont is a pediatrician and an opponent of wind turbines. In a 2009 book she authored, Pierpont invented the term, “Wind Turbine Syndrome.” Since then, Pierpont’s theories have been widely discredited by the scientific community, which points to severe flaws in her research methodology and lack of statistical validity, among other problems. We pulled… Read more »
[This op-ed was originally featured on The Hill.] By Randy Udall Americans love panaceas. We want thinner thighs in thirty days, a pill to cure baldness, an ultrasonic gizmo to double our mileage. Cheap gasoline isn’t guaranteed by the Constitution, but each time oil prices spike, politicians squirm as if it was. Unfortunately, energy is… Read more »
Wednesday, American Petroleum Institute (API) President (and the oil industry’s chief Oliver Twist impersonator) Jack Gerard held a conference call to announce, “a new API advertising and grassroots campaign to address solutions to a struggling economy.” Gerard claimed if the government opens millions of acres of American land for drilling, then Big Oil can meet… Read more »
James Bartis, senior policy researcher for Rand Corporation, testified this morning before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on oil shale. His second appearance before Congress has added to the confusion around the failed energy solution. Tuesday, June 07 In response to a question from Sen. Joe Manchin about whether the “country could be… Read more »
Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OIL SHALE – A CENTURY-OLD SCIENCE FICTION STORY After nearly a century of oil shale being ‘just around the corner’ from development, it has failed to become a viable energy resource. In a new report, The… Read more »
Patrick Reis | June 02, 2011 | Reposted from Politico SHALE SLAM — “Shale Will Supply Oil to Nation Soon,” the Berkeley Daily Gazette told readers in December … of 1922. This and scores of other positive shale predictions are fodder for a new report from the Checks and Balances Project — an environmental group… Read more »
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