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Category Archives: energy
Two links
1) Agriculture by the numbers is a post by High Country News that explores some of the most recent Census of Agriculture numbers. The numbers date to 2007, but may be useful for grounding wonkish observations like “The 2007 percentage … Continue reading
Smartest take on Gasland so far
Here’s the article. Here’s the quote: The state of Pennsylvania is the latest member of the shale gas coalition to fail to grasp the industry’s possibly crippling PR malady. … Shale gas skeptics have created a widely accepted narrative that … Continue reading
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What I’m reading
Two series on energy issues. [1, 2] One long article on how oft-promised job creation falls short. The first is a set on hydraulic fracturing produced by the Denton Record-Chronicle, a newspaper with a circulation of 15,000 daily and 38,500 … Continue reading
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On the horrors of dumb opposition to things
It’s one thing to disagree constructively and another to make substance-free gripes. That’s the takeaway point of what Energy Tribune editor Michael Economides wrote of environmentalists opposing Keystone XL today. Or, it would be, if he had put any effort … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Keystone pipeline
Tagged Energy Tribune, Keystone pipeline, Keystone XL, Michael Economides, TransCanada
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Wikileaks on peak oil
This is important. This is the most interesting take I’ve seen so far. In a nutshell: the Wikileaked cables give insight into the US perspective on a wide range of matters; the US perspective apparently takes seriously the idea that … Continue reading
Under what circumstances could Keystone XL “eliminate” oil imports from the Middle East?
(updated: revised the old paragraph #1, added the paragraph immediately below) Ensys clarifies: The EnSys report makes clear that it is the low demand scenario, (which assumes strong policy actions to reduce U.S. oil use), supported by potentially increasing US … Continue reading
Posted in energy, Keystone pipeline
Tagged EnSys Keystone XL Assessment, Keystone XL, TransCanada
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LA Times: One oil pipeline too many for Texas?
I guess I’m not the only one who thinks the mere “rumblings of petro-rebellion” in Texas is newsworthy. Today’s Washington Post entry focuses on Nebraska.
Tar sands pitfalls: an economist’s perspective
Food for thought: It would be a mistake for investors to fool themselves with the arguments their own lobbyists are using to underplay the environmental impact of oil-sand development and overplay its national security benefits. Experience shows that a crisis … Continue reading
Dimock, fracking and the rural onus
ProPublica has an interesting update on the hydraulic fracturing pollution lawsuits in Dimock, Pennsylvania. I’ve written a bit about Dimock and a bit more about hydraulic fracturing, and while some of my views have changed since moving out of rural … Continue reading
Holcomb coal plant approved; Denver switching to gas
Even apart from climate change legislation, Central Appalachian coal production could be cut in half before the end of this decade. This is not news. The expected production decline is attributable to a range of factors I won’t go into … Continue reading