Category Archives: Energy

Surely You’re Joking, Dr. Chu!

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Steve Maley

With the toner barely dry on Dr. Steven Chu’s resignation from his post as Secretary of Energy, the building of a mythology complete with tales of the Physics professor’s Feynman-esque insight is well underway.

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Yoko ducks the fracking truth in a V-12 Mercedes. #rsrh #imagineallthehypocrites #1%

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Steve Maley

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/18/fracking-debate-ono-lennon-sarandon-tour “[Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon] keep secret the exact location of their farm, where Ono and John Lennon famously tended a herd of cows [while sheltering their prodigious income from high U.K. tax rates – Ed.], but they will … Continue reading →

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‘Fracknation’ Seeks the Fracking Truth

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Steve Maley

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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AAPL Responds to ‘Promised Land’

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Steve Maley

The AAPL is the American Association of Professional Landmen. I appreciate their desire for a measured and considered response, but they’d better hurry up. The movie is likely to be out of the theaters and available on DVD before AAPL … Continue reading →

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Fact Checking Matt Damon’s ‘Promised Land’

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Steve Maley

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 Steve Maley

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

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Steve Maley

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

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NASA Nighttime Photos Show Drilling Rig Hot Spots

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Steve Maley

Large cities and major interstate highways are readily identifiable. But what’s going on in South Texas, West Texas and North Dakota? Baker-Hughes, a major service company, has an online rig locator. In the detail maps below, each blue triangle represents … Continue reading →

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Is a Carbon Tax in our Future?

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Steve Maley

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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Name the Oil-Friendly Governor #rsrh

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Steve Maley

“The exemptions from [environmental restrictions] are precisely what [the Governor] sought late in 2011 when he replaced two top officials in the state Conservation Department with appointees who agreed to ease environmental restrictions on energy companies. “In the months afterward, … Continue reading →

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