Category: ‘ Natural Gas ’

 

Natural gas by the numbers

Sunday's NYT had a thoughtful piece on the latest revision by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of their estimates about the U.S. natural gas resource base. As Ian Urbina reported: The agency estimated that there...

How and how not to intervene in energy markets

Two articles in the Sunday NYT bookended the concept of intervening in energy markets to advance public policy goals or correct market failures.  One, entitled "Lobbyist Helps a Project He Financed in Congress," will be more Soly...

Energy security and the role of natural gas

Multiple WSJ articles this morning with implications for natural gas -- and one in Bloomberg worth paying attention to. First, in "Glut Hits Natural-Gas Prices," the WSJ reports: U.S. energy companies are pumping so much na...

Quaking in our boots over natural gas

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...

Betting big on natural gas

Today's Marketplace section of the WSJ has two articles well worth reflecting on.  The first, by Ryan Tracy and Deborah Solomon, reports on the formal issuance of what's commonly referred to as the Clean Air Act Mercury MACT rule...

Energy over the weekend

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...

Regulating energy; balancing interests

Interesting piece in today's NYT by Sabrina Tavernise (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/us/towns-fighting-to-stand-ground-against-gas-drillers.html?_r=1&src=rechp) reports on concerns of residents living near new natural gas ...

Energy over the weekend

If you missed Saturday's WSJ, you missed a lot of energy news: 1.  Ana Campoy and Stephanie Simon reported on a dispute in Oklahoma over a wind farm that may interfere with oil production.  The Osage Nation owns the mineral r...

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...

Time for a sharp focus

There's a very nice piece in this morning's WaPo by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, entitled, "Private secctor hesitates in financing clean-tech firms": "As federal stimulus dollars for investment in renewable energy begin t...
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