Category Archives: Environment

Kennedy, Unhinged

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

If you shut your eyes for just a moment while reading this latest HuffPo post by Robert Kennedy, Jr., you can almost hear the gobs of spittle smacking his monitor as he wrote. Continue reading →

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Energy Week in Review

Posted on March 2, 2013 by

And what a momentous week it was: State Department issues its environmental report on the Keystone XL Pipeline. White House energy advisor warns of Sequester-related permitting delays. Trial of BP, Transocean and Halliburton begins in New Orleans. Shell suspends Arctic … Continue reading →

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‘Fracknation’ Seeks the Fracking Truth

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

Fracknation, a new documentary film by investigative journalist Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Magda Segieda premieres Tuesday night, January 22 at 9:00 PM EST on AXS-TV (click for cable and satellite access info). In FrackNation journalist Phelim McAleer faces threats, … Continue reading →

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Endangered Species a Victim of Brazilian Deforestation: Could Global Warming be to Blame?

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

Once plentiful to the point of being considered a nuisance, sightings of Pthirus pubis in its natural habitat are said to be fewer in number than at any time in recorded history. As reported in The Guardian (UK), scientists report that … Continue reading →

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Fact Checking Matt Damon’s ‘Promised Land’

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

I wasted $7.75 on Hollywood’s latest anti-fracking agitprop “Promised Land” (1) so you won’t have to. You can read movie reviews elsewhere. From what I’ve seen, they’ve been rather lukewarm. And in its first weekend of nationwide distribution, audience response … Continue reading →

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Climate Change, Climate Skeptics and Climate Fools

Posted on January 5, 2013 by

Under eleven grafs of organic compost, the NYT Green Blog buries its discomfiting lede: unless we’re willing to get serious about nuclear energy, it’s all just talk. Continue reading →

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Maybe we should have Fair Trade Offshore Oil #rsrh

Not sure what point this is trying to make. Oh, and fair trade coffee isn’t fair.

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The Ongoing Federal War On Natural Gas #rsrh

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

Formal Reprimand Issued To Flatulent Federal Worker | The Smoking Gun “DECEMBER 21–A federal employee was formally reprimanded this month for excessive workplace flatulence, a sanction that was delivered to him in a five-page letter that actually included a log … Continue reading →

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Is a Carbon Tax in our Future?

Posted on December 8, 2012 by

As folk wisdom tells us, “Where there’s smoke, there’s carbon emissions.” And where there are carbon emissions, there are internationalists hell-bent on hobbling the American economy in the name of Global Warming. Several recent signs: In 2010, the Treasury Department … Continue reading →

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I’ll have Geology for 500 trillion cubic feet, Alex. #rsrh

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

H/T @MarcellusGas on twitter. http://MarcellusCoalition.org

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