Tag Archives: Coal

Chart of the Day: Coal- and natural gas-fired generation equal for first time in April 2012 #rsrh

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Steve Maley

Monthly coal- and natural gas-fired generation equal for first time in April 2012 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Recently published electric power data show that, for the first time since EIA began collecting the data, generation from natural gas-fired plants … Continue reading →

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Dirty Sexy Fracking Money. #rsrh

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Steve Maley

H/T Steve Milloy at JunkScience.com From 2007 until 2010, Chesapeake Energy and its employees donated $26 million to the Sierra Club for the purpose of conducting an anti-coal campaign. Then the Sierra Club decided natural gas is bad, and rejected … Continue reading →

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North America’s Energy Bounty, By the Numbers

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Steve Maley

On Tuesday, the Institute for Energy Research issued its North American Energy Inventory (.pdf link), a report which documents the government’s own estimates of oil, natural gas and coal resources for the U.S., Canada and Mexico. (The IER is a … Continue reading →

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