Thought Piece We will continue to work to protect communities from the threat of fracked gas pollution.” Sierra Club attorney Nathan Matthews It is hard to retain a modicum of respect for any environmental group who likes the law if it favors them, but who becomes a heavy-handed, well-financed scofflaw if it doesn’t, especially if they [...]
Thought Piece Fracking Our Way to Mideast Peace I am surprised that Walter Russell Mead didn’t include the following piece in his Wall Street Journal argument: https://lnkd.in/eUQmjcW. “EU States and Israel Sign Gas Pipeline Deal,” which will be the longest and deepest natural gas pipeline in the world and will provide NG from Israel to Cypress, [...]
The Weekly Word; December 9, 2017 In this week’s episode of The Weekly Word, host Jason Spiess and Heins talk about the ever-changing global oil industry. A big portion of the discussion is on the addition of oil and gas jobs across the country, and if Americans do not fill those positions, workers from other [...]
Thought Piece "Paranoid politics almost never achieves its goal. The obvious prejudices, hyperbole, rhetoric, and shrillness give it away.” As I have said before: "Name-calling, smearing, and sneering are not arguments.” One gets the feeling that the promised "warfare" by the opposition has just begun and promises to be a long term phenomenon. Where have the [...]
Thought Piece Many of us hope that China will actually provide the enormous amount of money promised to West Virginia for its economic development, but a friend of mine reminds me that it is “always just around the corner, but none of it ever gets here.” The Chinese have put Governor Jim Justice’s and their credibility [...]
Thought Piece While I suspect that this storyline will either be ignored or confined to the small stories with small print, I think that Senator Hoeven’s bill will help the tribes of North Dakota gain more control of their energy assets and economic development. One year after the DAPL debacle, which used the “plight” of Native [...]
The Weekly Word: The evolution of a protestor and the economic ecosystem of energy This week on The Weekly Word with Professor Stephen Heins, Jim Willis from the Marcellus Drilling News joined the energy-themed conversation. The discussion began with some of the similarities and differences between the Bakken and the Marcellus and Utica shale plays. [...]
The Weekly Word: Pipeline spills and the religion of environmentalism; November 25, 2017 On this week’s installment of The Weekly Word with professor Stephen Heins, climate change and environmentalism are discussed. Heins begins talking about the recent pipeline spills and how pipelines are still the most effecient and safe means fo crude transportation. The religion of environmentalism [...]
Thought Piece It is hard to make a more compelling argument for the private investment, environment, safety, and economic development for new pipelines in the US than the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board does. So I won’t. Keystone XL on the Cusp The record shows that pipelines are the safest way to transport oil. By The [...]
Thought Piece Not to be undone by the Washington Post reporting, the New York Times begins its story with the following headline: “With Big Spill to Clean....” then, the reporter breathlessly writes about “the images of South Dakota grassland blemished by 210,000 gallons of leaked Canadian crude oil....” Continuing, the reporter opines that this week’s leak [...]
