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The Bureau of Energy Resources: An Important Step

Today, the State Department opened the Bureau of Energy Resources, in recognition of the growing importance of energy security on our foreign policy and national defense. The Wall Street Journal writes: The new Bureau of Ener...

Posted Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at 3:51 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Policy

Production, supply, and demand

Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar wrote an Op-Ed in Politico about how the United States is increasing domestic oil production. His piece included some interesting data points regarding oil and gas production ...

Posted Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 3:08 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Uncategorized

Oh Canada!

Deborah Solomon's WSJ piece on the Keystone XL pipeline planned to bring Canadian crude oil from oil sand formations to the US captures the debate well. Ms. Solomon's lead: "The White House has put itself squarely in the mid...

Posted Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 at 7:18 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy, Uncategorized

Pendulum Moves on U.S. Energy Security

New expectations of rapid growth in U.S. and Canadian oil production over the next decade are starting to percolate into the larger political consciousness, offering a counter-narrative to the several decades of declining U.S. pro...

Posted Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 10:27 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply

Energy over the weekend

Saturday's WSJ - "Court Overturns Clearance for Offshore Wind Farm" - federal appeals court told the FAA to redo its review of the Cape Wind project. The $2.6 billion project has been trying for years to become the first commerc...

Posted Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at 4:48 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Supply, Environment, National Security, Natural Gas, Renewables

Intelligence Report: DOE Loan Guarantees in Context

What’s happening with Solyndra? According to Politico, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu is expected to testify on November 17 before the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee. As the most high profile Solyndra witness...

Posted Friday, October 28th, 2011 at 10:22 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Supply, Policy

Libya’s Revolutionary Lessons

As ex-rebel troops loyal to the new transitional government in Tripoli crack down on some of the last holdouts of former Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi’s regime, Libya’s oil minister Nuri Berruien reports his country is now ...

Posted Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at 2:21 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil

Fracking fracas

The NYT Energy & Environment blog has a piece today on upcoming hearings on what is the main energy issue, by far, in the U.S. today: hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas from shale formations. New York’s charged...

Posted Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 12:36 pm | Filed in: Electricity, Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas

This is not about Solyndra

Ben German and Andrew Restuccia reported yesterday in The Hill that there is at least one cooler head in the Republican party when it comes to the DOE loan guarantee program. The program's big black eye, otherwise known as bankr...

Posted Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 at 12:10 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment

Pipeline Fever

Outside the White House, environment protests are raging against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada is seeking a permit to develop a $7 billion, 1,700 mile pipeline, transporting oil sands from Alberta to Texas refiner...

Posted Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 at 5:51 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment

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