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Environmental activists reeling over Keystone

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 08 March 2013 in Fossil Fuels

Keystone pipeline gains momentum By Zack Colman Green groups are reeling after the release of a draft State Department report that seemed to put the Keystone XL oil pipeline on track for approval. Opponents of Keystone are furious at State’s environmental assessment of the project, which brushed ...

Keystone XL: analysis by oil consultants

Posted by rackfokus on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 in Fossil Fuels

US government report drew on analysis by oil consultants State Department's conclusion that controversial pipeline would not affect development of Canada's tar sands was based on work by companies with close ties to oil industry by Lisa Song The State Department's recent conclusion that the Keyst...

The External Costs Of Fossil Fuels Are Large

Posted by EarthDude on Saturday, 23 February 2013 in Fossil Fuels

The following is the testimony of Daniel J. Weiss before the House Oversight Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care, and Entitlements (PDF), reposted from the Center for American Progress Action Fund:Chairman Lankford, Ranking Member Speier, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opp...

Illinois Coal Production Pushes On

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Coal production in the Illinois Basin during the first half of 2012 (64.4 million short tons) was 13% higher than the same period in 2011. This expansion of production, which occurred despite declines in total U.S. coal production and consumption, was a response to both domestic and interna...

End for fossil fuels

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 in Fossil Fuels

by Ben Cubby of brisbanetimes.com.au THIS year is likely to be seen by future historians as the ''beginning of the clean-energy era'', when the world turned decisively towards renewable energy, according to the chief of Australia's climate commission, Tim Flannery. Professor Flannery will try to s...

Montana Calls Calls Out Big Oil

Posted by amir on Sunday, 17 June 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Cross posted from the Coal Export Action Friday evening, delegates at the Montana Republicans State Convention received an unexpected visit and serenade from the Blue Skies Campaign and Occupy Missoula. During the dinnertime reception f...

In Land of Gas Drilling, Battle for Water That Doesn’t Reek or Fizz

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Thursday, 07 June 2012 in Fossil Fuels

By DAN FROSCH It has been more than four decades since the first well was drilled in the natural gas field beneath this stretch of slow rolling alfalfa and sugar beet farms. But for some who live here, in the shadows of the Wind River Mountains, the drilling rigs have brought more than jobs and ind...

Tar Sand oil update

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 in Fossil Fuels

You might not know this, but Canada has oil reserves of 170 billion barrels, more than Iran and Nigeria combined. This fact is not widely known since much of that oil has been considered “not economically recoverable,”lying deep underground in a mixture of bitumen, a thick, tarry substance, sand and...

Brazil Arrests 17 Chevron Oil Execs For “Environmental Crimes”

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Brazil is going to great lengths to protect its commons. Seventeen executives, including American citizens, working with Chevron and oil rig contractor Transocean, have been charged with crimes against the environment in Brazil after an oil spill off the coast poured about three thousand ba...

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Just after midnight, a series of errors on board the Exxon Valdez oil tanker led the ship aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound. About 30 million litres of crude oil leaked from the tanker's breached hull, causing massive destruction along hundreds of kilometres of once-pristine coast. ...

Arctic Ocean Drilling

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Fossil Fuels

As the Obama administration prepares to issue final permits for exploratory oil drilling on the outer continental shelf off Alaska's Arctic coast this summer, the public is hearing some familiar promises from industry and government -- the risk of a catastrophic oil spill is small, best avai...

China's coal consumption continues to rise

Posted by bensor on Sunday, 26 February 2012 in Fossil Fuels

According to the China Electricity Council, China's coal demand will reach 4.3 billion tons by 2015, an increase of 970 million tons compared to the year 2010 and an annual increase of 5.2 percent, Shanghai Securities News reported on Monday. An expert told the paper that as the cost...

China’s Blood-Stained Coal

Posted by bchristo on Thursday, 02 February 2012 in Fossil Fuels

If you want to understand China’s reform-era growing pains you can do a lot worse than dig into the coal industry. Coal powers China’s industry, pollutes its environment, and is the site of conflict for the state and private entrepreneurs – each eager to monopolize control of a precious re...

China, India will Continue to Replace Declining US Coal Demand so What's the Problem

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Peabody Energy Corp., one of the world’s largest coal miners, said the industry will continue to rely on China and other developing nations as the U.S. uses less. Here’s what the St. Louis company expects for the coal market in 2012: —Ninety gigawatts of coal-fired power plants will come onl...

Obama Stands up to Big Oil and Polluter Politicians

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 21 January 2012 in Fossil Fuels

President Obama stood up to Big Oil and its puppets in Congress and denied a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline yesterday. This is encouraging news for the communities whose air and water would have been directly threatened by this pipeline, from Canada to Nebraska to the Gulf Coast. And ...

Carbon Is Taxing

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 in Fossil Fuels

A carbon tax bill is introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Nine House Democrats introduced a bill on October 24 which would create a "simple tax on carbon," in the words of its lead sponsor, Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA). The bill, the Save Our Climate Act (HR 3242), probably doesn’t have a ...

Recent exploratory drilling could bring billions to Colorado's economy annually.

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Friday, 25 November 2011 in Fossil Fuels

Houston based Anadarko Petroleum recently drilled 11 horizontal wells in the Wattenberg Formation, which sits below portions of Colorado’s Front Range. The wells are expected to bring in an estimated $4 billion per year to Colorado’s economy. The reserves are estimated to contain between 500 million...

U.S. postpones Keystone XL pipeline decision

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 11 November 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The U.S. government on Thursday delayed approval of a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline until after the 2012 U.S. election, bowing to pressure from environmentalists and sparing President Barack Obama a damaging split with liberal voters he may need to win reelection. The decision to explore a n...

Could Nebraska be the deciding factor in the Keystone XL debate?

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Monday, 07 November 2011 in Fossil Fuels

Protestors once again presented themselves around the White House on November 6th hoping to convince President Obama to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline. Nebraska has been waging its own war against TransCanada and the proposed pipeline from Alberta to Texas in recent weeks as well. Nebraska...

How reliant is the United States on imported fossil fuels? The facts may be surprising.

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Thursday, 03 November 2011 in Fossil Fuels

It may be surprising to many people that the United States gets the majority of its crude oil and petroleum from countries other than those in the Middle East. New data released in June 2011 by the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that only about 18 percent of crude and petroleum came fro...