by L J Furman on June 13, 2010
Part 6 in a Series that began after Earth Day (1 Fossil Fuels and a Walk on the Moon, 2 Drill Baby Drill or Drill Baby Oops, 3 The Magnitude, 4 One Month After, 5 Like Chernobyl?) Last month I wrote on Popoular Logistics "BP and the government say ... 5,000 barrels per day is [...]
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Offshore Wind,
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Oil Spill,
Solar Power,
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by L J Furman on May 20, 2010
Fourth in a series 1, 2, 3, 4) that began on "Earth Day" (0). Steve Gelsi at Marketwatch (click here) reports that BP is now siphoning 3,000 Barrels Per Day from the Deepwater Horizon Spill. According to research by NPR, the spill was 70,000 barrels per day. In the 30 days that have elapsed since [...]
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Haliburton,
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Oil Spill,
Unsustainable
by L J Furman on May 15, 2010
Third in a series (1, 2, 3) that began on "Earth Day" (0). BP and the government say they can't measure the spill on the ocean floor. However, 5,000 barrels per day is reaching the surface and most of the oil – 80% to 90% – is below the surface. So I thnk it's is [...]
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by L J Furman on May 7, 2010
Second in a series (1, 2) that began on "Earth Day" (0). "In order to make Policy, you have to be good at Politics." - Deborah Stone, "Policy Paradox" I like and respect President Obama. I think he's a well educated lawyer and law school professor, with a good grasp of the Constitution, and the [...]
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Kingston Tennessee,
Larry Sommers,
nuclear,
oil,
Paul Krugman,
President Obama,
Robert Costanza,
Roger Saillant,
Sarah Palin,
Solar Power,
Steven Chu,
Tim Geithner,
Upper Big Branch,
Wind Power
by L J Furman on May 3, 2010
The unfolding disaster at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, which promises to be an environmental catastrophe, (click here) the recent disasters at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, and the Kingston, Tennessee fly ash retention pond demonstrate that fossil fuels are dirty and dangerous. Safety and environmental protection [...]
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by L J Furman on March 27, 2009
The Republican Road to Recovery, talks about clean energy alternatives, but focuses on coal, oil, oil shale, offshore drilling, and nuclear power.
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by L J Furman on December 17, 2008
) which is approximately 360 billion pounds of gas (each gallon of gas is 5.8 to 6.5 pounds). Water isn't normally thought of as a pollutant. Up till November 13, the EPA refused to think of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, but big storms and rising sea levels are among the problems associated with global [...]
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by L J Furman on August 11, 2008
Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil: “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
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Cryptogonpoints out this piece in the Times which suggests that the Saudis are producing at exceptionally high capacity, trying to limit price increases. From Plan Would Lift Saudi Oil Output, from the June 14th times:Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a [...]
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