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Energy Supply ’
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This week, a new 12-18 month waiting period was announced, and both Democrats and Republicans in Washington let out a collective groan of frustration. The news, however, was not of another delay in the seemingly interminable wai...
Posted Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 6:02 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Supply, Legislation
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
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
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Range Resources Corporation (Range), one of a large number of independent companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale, would begin submitting lists of all the chemicals and additives, and ...
Posted Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 at 6:15 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas
In the latest update to the legal battle underway between the Obama administration and the Fifth Circuit, the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced on Monday a new drilling moratorium to halt deepwater oil and natural gas drill...
Posted Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 8:17 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment
Policy makers and stakeholders need to be paying attention to the current congressional debate on a technique used to extract natural gas from tight shale formations. As the country focuses on the disaster in the Gulf, key legis...
Posted Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 7:11 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Natural Gas
