Showing posts with label IV III Oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IV III Oil. Show all posts

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Obama advisers call for halt to Arctic oil exploration. Guardian

Obama advisers call for halt to oil exploration. The entire future of Shell's drilling plans in the Arctic was put in doubt on Friday after two of Barack Obama's most trusted advisers called for a permanent halt to oil exploration. The Guardian

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Elec Vehicles - $1/gal gas equiv: Expect gas prices to continue heating up MiamiHerald.com

Tom Hudson: Expect gas prices to continue heating up

MiamiHerald.com - ‎51 minutes ago‎
By Tom Hudson It has been a record-breaking summer but not at the gas pump. While July was the hottest month on record and most of the United States continues suffering near record drought conditions, drivers have been spared sky high gasoline prices ...

Friday, August 3, 2012

Big Oil is Earth's Public Enemy No. 1 MarketWatch

Big Oil is Earth's Public Enemy No. 1

MarketWatch -
Recently James Hansen, head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies wrote in the New York Times: “Game Over for the Climate: Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.” Today oil companies and environmentalists are on a collision course.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Ocean Advocates Urge Citizens to Get Loud about Big Oil's Seismic Blasts in ... Atlantic Highlands Herald


Ocean Advocates Urge Citizens to Get Loud about Big Oil's Seismic Blasts in ...

Atlantic Highlands Herald - 
“The BP Oil Disaster shows how devastating blow-outs and spills can be to tourism and fishing industries.” “The sonic airgun testing for oil and gas reserves is a proven destroyer of marinelife, causing serious ecosystem problems to all marine life 

Missed renewable energy targets will cost UK dear, warns study The Guardian


Missed renewable energy targets will cost UK dear, warns study

The Guardian - 
The UK is set to miss its renewable energy targets by a wide margin - a failure that could result in billions of pounds being added to energy bills as we rely increasingly on imported gas, according to a new study.

KILL RAPE MUTILATE BABY KILL: How Much Oil Is Really in the US? The Atlantic


How Much Oil Is Really in the US?

The Atlantic - 
But there are many other kinds of oil, which get lumped into a category called "unconventional oil." That includes the billions of barrels of tar sands oil in Canada, heavy oil in Venezuela, and shale oil in North Dakota.* So Obama's numbers almost ...

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Scientists: Fish are sick where BP's oil spill hit San Francisco Chronicle


Scientists: Fish are sick where BP's oil spill hit

San Francisco Chronicle - 
(04-19) 01:34 PDT BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) -- Two years after the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, scientists say they're finding trouble with sick fish that dwell along offshore reefs and in the deep waters - especially in places where the oil spill ...

Saturday, April 14, 2012

***** Pricing Pollution (Implementing Full-Cost Pricing) & Reducing Income Taxes ... CleanTechnica


Pricing Pollution (Implementing Full-Cost Pricing) & Reducing Income Taxes ...

CleanTechnica - 
... in our faces and/or those of our children in ways we really don't want to see. In this Earth Policy Institute post below (via sister site sustainablog), Lester Brown gets into these issues in more detail and perhaps a bit more elegance. Enjoy the post!

Thursday, April 5, 2012

The rules that should govern energy subsidies Salon


The rules that should govern energy subsidies

Salon - 
By Bill McKibben In this March 19, 2012, photo, a motorist pumps gas at a Mount Lebanon, Pa., mini-mart (Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Along with “fivedollaragallongas,” the energy watchword for the next few months is: “subsidies.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Fossil fuels: We're nowhere close to paying the true cost Pueblo Chieftain


Fossil fuels: We're nowhere close to paying the true cost

Pueblo Chieftain - 
There are unconventional “oil” resources, such as the oil shales of northwestern Colorado and the tar sands of Canada. Neither oil shale nor tar sands contain oil. Oil shale holds kerogen, a solid mixture of organic compounds. Tar sands, sometimes 

TransCanada identifies proposed corridor for Keystone XL ... The Republic


TransCanada identifies proposed corridor for Keystone XL ...

The Republic - 
The developer of the Keystone XL

Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Consequence of Your Cowardice: EPA decision moves Shell one step closer to drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska Washington Post


EPA decision moves Shell one step closer to drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska

Washington Post -
The Environmental Protection Agency's appeals board on Friday denied petitions to review the air permit for its drilling ship Kulluk.

GOP blocks Obama's bid to end oil subsidies CBS News


GOP blocks Obama's bid to end oil subsidies

CBS News -
Senate Republicans Thursday shot down President Obama's plan to cut off oil companies' tax breaks. The president says there's not much he can do to control gas prices.

Where Does Our Oil Come From? You'd Be Surprised Christina Clusiau

Christina Clusiau