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Readers of this space read last week about the protests over Cairn Energy's production activities in the Arctic. Today's WSJ has a nice piece by James Herron (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870420680457546739021846...
Posted Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 7:52 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply
Gotta love the blog in this morning's FT by Masa Serdarevic entitled "Oil drilling in the Arctic? Blame the bankers" ( http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/25/oil-drilling-in-the-arctic-blame-the-bankers/). For those who...
Posted Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 6:49 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Uncategorized
We find it worth clarifying the widely stated, yet mistaken assertion that by shifting to electric vehicles and clean energy we are simply substituting one kind of foreign dependency with another—oil for rare earth elements.
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Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 12:27 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Economics, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
On the heels of the Senate’s inability pass a significant energy bill this summer, Senators left DC two weeks ago for recess. At home, much like in DC, the cacophony of opinions on energy policy continued.
Greenwire reports...
Posted Friday, August 20th, 2010 at 10:22 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation
We often blog in this space about the collision between environmental laws passed in the 1970s and the energy security requirements of the 21st century. And advocates often point to energy efficiency as the "silver bullet" in bo...
Posted Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at 10:31 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security
Rare earth elements (REE) are a collection of seventeen chemically similar metallic elements (scandium, yttrium and the fifteen lanthanides), forming the largest chemically coherent group in the periodic table. Due to their versat...
Posted Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 1:30 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security
The distinction between domestically produced and imported oil has been a subject of considerable debate and confusion. From an energy security standpoint, a common argument goes that increased production of oil in the United St...
Posted Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 12:49 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Today, it is widely recognized that domestic shale/tight gas and hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) represent a key resource and technology to the future energy supply and economy of the United States. What does foreign shal...
Posted Monday, July 19th, 2010 at 10:50 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Natural Gas
