Pope Francis in a unique position to influence global debate over energy and environment When Pope Francis issued his climate encyclical earlier this year, I harshly criticized him for being a neo-Luddite technology hater who had [Read more]
North American Climate Compact great for Clinton, perhaps not so much for Canada Tuesday Hillary Clinton shocked Canadians by coming out against the Keystone XL pipeline. The other shoe dropped Wednesday as she proposed a North American [Read more]
Obama’s Clean Power Plan set to give energy sector huge boost by increasing natural gas sales Comments yesterday from the White House press secretary illustrate nicely the confused thinking about energy on the part of [Read more]
CPS Energy charges residential rate of $.105/kwh, slightly under Texas average As Texas electric utilities prepare to comply with the Clean Power Plan, one company is ahead of the pack. CPS Energy says it began [Read more]
Reality of fracking and earthquakes less serious, more complex than eco-activists claim Recent controversy about fracking-induced earthquakes in NE British Columbia illustrates how North American environmental NGOs use junk science and exaggerated claims to distort the public [Read more]
Clean Power Plan could produce over $2 billion/year increase in natural gas sales for Texas shale companies This will come as a shock to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other high profile critics, but the [Read more]
Economist Vaclav Smil says transitions to new energy sources take many decades, despite panic over climate change Has anyone else noticed the recent onslaught of shrill rallying cries for climate change action, including President Obama’s Tuesday [Read more]
Regulators do a good job of monitoring fracking-induced earthquakes, putting mitigation plans in place In Part 1 of this column I examined how ENGOs and their “experts” used flimsy science and exaggerated claims to call [Read more]
Part 2 of column will show how facts don’t line up with ENGO’s version of fracking-induced earthquakes Recent controversy about fracking-induced earthquakes in NE British Columbia illustrates how North American environmental NGOs use junk science and [Read more]
Shale producers have plenty of room to reduce costs, small OPEC producers need high oil prices As global oil markets continue to roil, OPEC’s weak sisters are panicking and American shale producers are digging in [Read more]
Linda McQuaig is a long-time opponent of oil sands, comments surprised no one OMG, you guys, why are critics so MEAN to Linda McQuaig? She’s just telling the truth about leaving the oil sands in [Read more]
Does Saudi Arabia really care which high cost oil producers go under? One analysts says, no Mark Mills has a theory about the Saudi market share strategy that goes a long way to explaining why some [Read more]
Clean Power Plan aims to eliminate Texas coal power plants, which generate 24% of state electricity We get it. Texas is really mad about Obama, the EPA, and the Clean Power Plan. But behind the [Read more]
Texas Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick says America needs a national energy strategy. Election is the perfect time for debate about energy With the introduction of the Clean Power Plan, President Barack Obama has inserted energy squarely into [Read more]
Fate of Canadian pipeline proposals will determine if there is even oil sands crude to ship in Keystone XL The Keystone XL pipeline is in the news. Again. Why doesn’t TransCanada just abandon the 830,000 [Read more]
Considering the huge challenges of transitioning to a low-carbon economy will take your breath away Mayors from around the world gathered at the Vatican this week to talk about climate change and the political will needed [Read more]
National energy strategy gives Alberta framework within which to work out compromise between energy development, climate change As of this morning, Canada has a new national energy strategy. Why should anyone care? Because it turns out that [Read more]
Coal consumption is rising because developing Asian nations want North American-style economy, lifestyle Yesterday the Sierra Club issued a press release boasting about phasing out the 200th coal-fired power plant in America. Break out the champagne, [Read more]
Barnett Shale methane emissions studies find a few super-emitting facilities to blame A dispute between the oil and gas industry and eco-activists over fugitive methane emissions in the Barnett Shale nicely illustrates my argument of three months ago why the [Read more]
Keystone XL has become political football between Obama, Democrats and Republicans TransCanada is asking – yet again – for President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, this time because of new climate friendly policies [Read more]
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