Liberal Commentator: Death Threats Against EPA Director Make Sense
Thought Piece For the record, the Clean Power Plan is a great example of undemocratic regulation, environmental extremism, faulty constitutional thinking, media manipulation, extensive use of executive orders, moral rectitude, name-calling, populist rhetoric, ideological purity, [...]
Politicized Sustainability Threatens Planet and People
Thought Piece Remaining sustainable, no matter one’s efforts, involves the unforeseeable future along with technology risk, including the disruption of further innovation in energy and renewables, which may outdate one’s current plan. Sustainable energy" seems [...]
The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks
Thought Piece This is a piece written by friend Ken Silverstein in 2013. Needless to say, none of the major media picked it up. Ken is a moderate kind of guy, so this story was [...]
The U.S. Is Breaking Clean Energy Records Even As Trump Doubles Down On Fossil Fuels
Thought Piece NEW SHOREHAM, RI - SEPTEMBER 22: The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands 3 miles off of Block Island on September 22, 2016 New Shoreham, Rhode Island. The five 6-megawatt wind turbines [...]
You can now become a ‘prosumer’ with blockchain in energy
Thought Piece Thanks to this meaningful posting. I gave a speech on the “Virtual Power Plant” over a decade ago. The basic idea was to measure and verify the consumption of lighting in real time [...]
Perry proposes regulatory overhaul to boost coal, nuclear
Thought Piece Given how politicized and single-minded the EPA has been since they started writing the first draft of the Clean Power Plan in 2009, several of us believe that the 2009-2017 EPA has ruined [...]
One Relatively Unknown Federal Agency Will Play A Big Role In Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Agenda
Thought Piece No one who knows much about energy or electricity in the US would dare to say that the FERC is unknown. Given how politicized and single-minded the EPA has been since they started [...]
‘Game-Changing’ New Research on Prolific Permian Basin Estimates 60 Billion to 70 Billion Barrels Remain, IHS Markit Says
Thought Piece Research, technology and innovation are driving the future of the Bakken, the Permian or the Marcellus. Anyone truly interested in American energy, environment, or shale needs to visit one of these Basins for [...]
The Weekly Word; September 25th, 2017
The Weekly Word; September 25, 2017 Heins opines on how some communities are embracing fracking while others dealing with politics. Listen Here: http://www.thecrudelife.com/podcast/building-bakken-radio-episode-217-ag-working-energy-davis-refinery-pipeline-technology/
Now it’s a War on Pipelines
Thought Piece First they waged war on coal, and now they’ve launched a war on pipelines. As one activist put it, the best means of transporting oil is no transportation. But if there is going [...]
Underreported: What Happened When Government Tried to Fix a Coal Town
Thought Piece This is the kind of reporting that has been missing in the mainstream media. It shows the costs and benefits of a federally funded program: "A private and public partnership." While the promises [...]
Feds overrule New York’s natural gas pipeline permit denial
Thought Piece The New York State political machine and anti- fossil fuel alarmists finally loses one in their effort to impose their will on the NY utility sector. Feds overrule New York's natural gas pipeline [...]