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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...

Alaska Gov. Parnell Wants his Pipeline

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 27 October 2011 in Fossil Fuels

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell proposed a new way forward on a natural gas pipeline Thursday, saying if demand for gas has shifted from the Lower 48 to Pacific Rim markets, the state must be willing to move with it. Parnell, in a speech to an oil and gas industry g...

Oil and Water don't mix in Nebraska

Posted by raindancer on Monday, 03 October 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The old adage that oil and water don't mix is proving true in Nebraska, where hundreds of people filled a small town gymnasium to protest a proposed oil pipeline they fear could pollute a major U.S. drinking water source. They came on Thursday in tour and school bu...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster: Who is at fault?

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Sunday, 18 September 2011 in Fossil Fuels

With much of the gulf coast region still feeling the effects of the BP oil spill in April 2010, the question of who is to blame for this disaster is on many people’s minds. The issue may never be completely resolved, especially for those who lost family members and profits from the spill...

Keystone XL, tar sands, and energy security: What will be next?

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Friday, 09 September 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The Obama Administration approved the Keystone XL pipeline that is slated to carry tar sands from Alberta to Texas to be refined into various forms of fuel. There were also over 1000 protestors arrested during the days the protests took place. Among them was President Obama’s chief climatolo...

Obama administration backs oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas

Posted by bensor on Friday, 02 September 2011 in Fossil Fuels

Campaigners disappointed as White House says 1,700-mile pipeline will not cause significant environmental damage The proposed pipeline will carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta (above) to the Texas coast. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/AP The Obama administration has given an impor...

The Problem with the Pipeline

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would start in the town of Hardisty, which about a hundred and twenty-eight miles southeast of Edmonton. It would cross the Canadian-U.S. border in Montana, jog through western South Dakota, then head down through Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma all the way to refine...

Obama’s Chance to Reduce Auto Emissions and Our Thirst for Oil

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 24 July 2011 in Fossil Fuels

PRESIDENT Obama has promised to break the United States’ oil addiction and tackle global warming. With a decision he will make in coming days, he can do both, and help consumers cut gas costs as well. The right decision would be to order automakers to reduce tailpipe emissions by 6 percent, steerin...

Gasoline Tax Hike

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 in Fossil Fuels

General Motors CEO, Dan Akerson, would like to see the federal gasoline tax boosted by as much as $1 per gallon in order to encourage drivers to choose more fuel efficient vehicles. If you are a politician in office today, it’s of course anathema to talk about raising fuel taxes – unless of course y...

Coal Vs. Nuclear

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 in Fossil Fuels

As America struggles down the road toward a coherent energy policy that focuses on a higher degree of self-reliance, policymakers face numerous issues and realities. These include: the finite supply and environmental impact of fossil fuels, the feasibility and costs to implement a widespread switch ...

The Second Battle of Blair Mountain

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 08 June 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The Second Battle of Blair MountainPosted: 08 Jun 2011 08:35 AM PDTGuest post from Chuck Belmont Keeney, Ph.D. the descendant of famed UMWA organized Frank Keeney. The March on Blair Mountain is currently happening in Southern WV. For more information and to support the march visit www.m...

The Carbon President

Posted by EarthDude on Friday, 03 June 2011 in Fossil Fuels

He promised to slow the ocean's rise, but Obama has opened the mine gates. Luckily, tough terrain is fighting back In our globalised world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades – those seem so 19th century. The ...

The Return of ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 09 May 2011 in Fossil Fuels

With the country again facing $4-a-gallon gasoline, the time would seem ripe for a grown-up conversation on energy. What we are getting instead is a mindless rerun of the drill-baby-drill operatics of the 2008 campaign, when gas was also at $4 a gallon. Then, as now, opportunistic politicians insist...

Frack and ruin: the rise of hydraulic fracturing

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 07 May 2011 in Fossil Fuels

Inflammable tap water, cancer threats and earthquakes: probably coming soon, near you. Sebastian Doggart reports from New York on the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking'. Go to your nearest tap. Light a match, and place it next to the running water. If it catches fire, as it has in many ...

Is peak coal coming?

Posted by Aaron on Wednesday, 27 April 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The price of oil isn’t the only hydrocarbon going through the roof. Check out thermal coal prices to see how dependent economic growth has become on burning increasing amounts of fossil fuels. Prices of Newcastle coal, the Asian coal price benchmark, are poised to rise by as much as 30 per cent this...

Bureau of Land Management Hosts A Fracturing Forum

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 21 April 2011 in Fossil Fuels

The Bureau of Land Management says there are 1,800 oil wells on public and tribal land in North Dakota and asked for public opinion Wednesday on the industry’s method of hydraulic fracturing those wells. Hydraulic fracturing is coming under increased public and government scrutiny and about 250 peo...

Gas Prices Go Up, is a Solution in Sight?

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 08 March 2011 in Fossil Fuels

AS THE PRICE OF OIL roars above $100 per barrel and gasoline nears $4 per gallon, a cry for solutions understandably goes up. Higher gas prices amount to a regressive tax increase on the American consumer, with all that implies for the ability of the U.S. and global economies to sustain thei...

A Call for a Coal-Free Future in Washington

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 21 February 2011 in Fossil Fuels

On Tuesday of last week more than 500 Washington citizens came together at the state capitol to push for legislative priorities selected by twenty-five leading environmental groups. Washington faces many challenges this year, from protecting waterways from oil pollution to defending environmen...

Youth activists testify at a hearing on the Coal Free Future bill

When Offshore Drilling Returns

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 07 January 2011 in Fossil Fuels

On Tuesday, the Obama administration finally announced the end of a politically motivated offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico. The drilling ban, originally scheduled to be lifted in November, has been the subject of a torrent of criticism from Gulf area resident...

Off Shore Drilling Banned in Gulf for Seven Years

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 02 December 2010 in Fossil Fuels

WASHINGTON — Pointing to the BP blowout and risks of a new environmental disaster, the Obama administration reversed itself Wednesday and promised not to pursue offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or anywhere else along the nation's East Coast. The decision was generally hailed ...