Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
INDUSTRY ROYALTIES INFLUENCE OVERSIGHT REPORT
Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa and committee Republicans collected $453,910 from the oil and gas industry during the last election cycle, compared to Democrats’ $67,400. Last week, Issa and his fellow Republicans released a 40-page report that attempted to shift blame for the increase in gas prices away from Big Oil. Committee Democrats released their own report calling on action to address the role of speculation in high gas prices.
NATURAL GAS ASSOC. SMEARS PROFESSOR
Robert Howarth, who recently authored a study that said gas may produce as much greenhouse gas emissions as coal production, has become the target of a Google Ads smear campaign by the America’s Natural Gas Association (ANGA). See the Google ad.
SLOAN VS. FLEMING
Drew Sloan, Truman National Security Project Fellow and decorated war veteran, gave a riveting testimony during another rhetoric-fueled House Natural Resources Committee hearing, sparring with Rep. John Fleming (R-LA-04, $248,35 in Big Oil contributions) over the definition of green jobs.
OIL AND GAS SPILLS HURT OUTDOOR RECREATION
The Bull Moose Sportsmen’s Alliance released a report that shows impacts of oil and gas spills on some of America’s most prized areas for hunting and fishing. Hunting and fishing yields $76 billion annually for America’s economy.
DID YOU KNOW?
Nearly 57 percent of oil and gas land leases across America’s great outdoors went unused over the Memorial Day weekend, as Big Oil clamors for more public land. That same public land houses the outdoor recreation industry, which contributes over $730 billion to the American economy and provides tens of thousands of jobs.
COMING UP THIS WEEK
THE SCIENCE FICTION OF OIL SHALE
On Friday, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power will discuss “energy legislation” which seeks to expedite 200 new nuclear power plants (Fukishima, what?) and attempts to spin a science fiction tale where oil shale somehow addresses high gas prices – despite nearly a century of failure by industry to produce oil shale commercially in the U.S.
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