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New Report: Drilling Rigs Following the Oil to Nonfederal Lands

2013-03-5

The Center for Western Priorities released its new Follow the Oil report today. CWP Policy Director, and report author, Greg Zimmerman used GIS mapping technology, EIA data, and other information to show that economic, technological and geological forces are moving drillers to private land. The report includes great infographics, and pretty much flies in the… Read more »

2013-03-1

State Department releases Keystone XL environmental impact statement, ignores reality of climate change impacts This afternoon, the State Department released its Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline, claiming that the pipeline will “not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects.” The SEIS paves the way for President Obama’s approval… Read more »

2013-02-26

With major fossil fuel projects ramping up across the globe, fossil fuel interests are ignoring the catastrophic costs that carbon pollution causes (and will cause) around the world. Meanwhile, critics of clean energy technologies continue to spread disinformation to discredit the emerging sector and promote fossil fuels as the only viable source of energy. Coal… Read more »

2013-02-19

This blog is the first in a series about Enefit, and Eesti Energia, covering the company’s financial outlook, background and status of its Utah project. Last month, the benchmark credit agency Moody’s downgraded the bond rating of the world’s largest oil shale company Eesti Energia, to negative. The downgrade is the second in just over… Read more »

2013-02-14

Wednesday, South Park and the North Fork Valley residents and business owners turned out to protest BLM’s controversial ‘lease first, plan later’ approach to oil and gas drilling at the Colorado BLM Resource Advisory Council (RAC) meetings. The public’s testimony focused on the need for BLM to finish critical planning and studies before they lease… Read more »

2013-02-8

The Colorado Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced that it will defer the sale of eight controversial oil and gas leases (10,839 acres) near Mesa Verde National Park from its upcoming February 14th lease sale. State Director Helen Hankins has also announced that BLM will defer three leases and portions of two others (2,626… Read more »

2013-02-1

Over the past few weeks, Colorado Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Helen Hankins has come under fire in the press, from local community leaders and others for her skewed and unbalanced approach to public land use. A former superintendent of Dinosaur National Monument recently took Dir. Hankins to task in a Denver Post column,… Read more »

2013-01-31

Some oil shale advocates like to point at the nation of Estonia as proof that oil shale can be a viable energy source. Unfortunately, Estonia isn’t saying the same thing about U.S. oil shale. According to Estonian media reports, opposition members of parliament are challenging the competence of Economic Affairs Minister Juhan Parts in light… Read more »

2013-01-31

Richard Fink has long been one of the Koch Brothers’ inner circle, playing the role of both political strategist and close confidante. Some say the Koch Empire wouldn’t have been nearly as successful without Fink. Without him and his ideas, what is now pejoratively known as the “Kochtopus” probably would not have branched so… Read more »

2013-01-30

Over the past couple weeks, fossil fuel interests and their allies have ramped up attacks on clean energy on the state level. As the Washington Post reported in November, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a fossil fuel-funded advocacy group, has made it a priority to eliminate clean energy standards across the country. From the East Coast… Read more »

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