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It isn't often that we get to cheer a lead editorial in the WaPo, but today is such a day, as yesterday President Obama did the completely expected and denied the permit -- after the State Department's EIS had found the project sh...
Posted Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 10:14 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
The recent increase in tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz has at its root the world’s unhappy relationship with crude oil being shipped through the Persian Gulf. The recent threats by the Islamic Republ...
Posted Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 11:31 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security
The WaPo was a little too cute yesterday in its third-place editorial, "Extracting natural gas: How to counter the adverse side effects of a clean-energy source." The first two lines will no doubt be quoted in public hearing...
Posted Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 5:30 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas, Policy
With the Republican primary election cycle in full swing, SAFE has published an Intelligence Report highlighting the details from each of the remaining six Republican participants’ energy platforms. A near consensus exists among...
Posted Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at 1:15 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Policy
Global oil markets are changing in ways that have never been seen before, promising high prices and continued volatility next year that certainly will not help America’s energy security. Citigroup’s commodity research unit ear...
Posted Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at 7:51 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil Prices
Two big stories this weekend -- reporting on EPA regulations of utilities and maneuvering over the Keystone XL pipeline planned to bring oil sands-derived petroleum south from Canada into the United States. They're related, as w...
Posted Monday, December 19th, 2011 at 7:20 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Energy Supply, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
Normally, the big energy news over the weekend at this time of year would be the results of the United National Climate Conference to implement the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, since a large porti...
Posted Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 5:14 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Renewables, Uncategorized
This week, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil released their 2012 energy outlook, The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040. It’s an extensive document, projecting a 30 percent global increase in energy demand over the coming three dec...
Posted Friday, December 9th, 2011 at 1:29 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Energy Demand, Energy Supply
An important piece by Matt Day in the weekend WSJ: King Coal's Throne Under Threat that focuses on the impact of pending EPA rules limiting emissions of conventional pollutants. Day notes that
power plants are already ratch...
Posted Monday, December 5th, 2011 at 6:21 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil, Renewables
As this space reported yesterday, the US is now a refined petroleum product exporter -- but we're still importing most of our crude oil. That's why today's introduction of legislation on the Keystone XL pipeline is so importa...
Posted Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 7:41 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Legislation, Oil
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