Category Archives: Environment

Obama’s Magical Misery Energy Tour #rsrh

From The Energy Tribune: Obama’s Fake “Fossil Fuel Infatuation Tour” President Obama must really be feeling the heat of high gasoline prices. He is on the defense. For the past three years, America’s oil industry has endured public denigration, access … Continue reading

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Clintonville WI is about as remote from #oilandgas #fracking operations as possible. #booms #rsrh

From Baker Hughes’ Rig Locator: http://gis.bakerhughesdirect.com/RigCounts/default2.aspx Clintonville, WI is about as remote from oil and gas drilling operations as it is possible to be in the Lower 48 States. The nearest operating rig is in Michigan, some 200 miles away. … Continue reading

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Why do you think they called them “Burning Springs”? #gasland #fracknation #fracking #rsrh

Phelim McAleer, Pro-Fracking Filmmaker, Erects Billboard In Fracking Country (HuffPo Link) Support FrackNation at Kickstarter.com. You, too, can become an Executive Producer for $1!

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We have a ‘deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate change’. What more do you need to know?

Gulf of Mexico back to ‘robust’ oil production, Obama administration says WASHINGTON — A one-year progress report on the Obama administration’s Blueprint for a Secure Energy Policy offers a sanguine portrait of increased domestic energy production and reduced reliance on … Continue reading

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Conservationists oppose PA’s largest solar farm. #rsrh

As we’ve pointed out before, It’s Not Easy Going Green … A solar farm’s slow going When Bob Keares proposed building Pennsylvania’s largest solar farm in the heart of Chester County, he expected a warm reception, certainly from environmentalists. With … Continue reading

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Drilling Chukchi Sea, and not drilling ANWR, is insane. #rsrh

Drilling Chukchi Sea, and not drilling ANWR, is insane. #rsrh

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Coming Soon: FrackNation

Phelim McAleer and his wife Ann McElhinney are journalists and documentary filmmakers. You may remember Not Evil Just Wrong (2009), their takedown of Al Gore and Global Warming hysteria. Now they want to tell the truth about natural gas development … Continue reading

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That brownie will kill you. In other news, ‘I drank your milkshake’. #rsrh

From the venerable New York Times: Think of the public as a consumer in a grocery aisle passing a box of brownie mix, the consultant said. The brownie on the front is so delectable that she can imagine the taste … Continue reading

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The New York Times and its Anti-Fracking Cargo Cult

Another day, another distorted and fear-mongering attack from the Old Grey Lady on America’s natural gas industry. Headline: Add Quakes to Rumblings Over Gas Rush (originally published under the headline “Some Blame Hydraulic Fracturing For Earthquake Epidemic”; link may require … Continue reading

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Canada to Kyoto: ‘Sayonara!’

On Monday, Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent announced that his country would exercise its legal option to end its participation in the Kyoto Protocols. The Protocols were a United Nations initiative, adopted in 1997 with a goal of rolling carbon … Continue reading

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