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TWiH (Sept 21-27): Up in the wild blue yonder, back on terra firma, and what...
"History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided." - Konrad AdenauerThis Week in History presents summaries of a few selected historical events for each calendar week of the...
View ArticleMichigan's U.S. Senators/Democrats, Gary Peters & Debbie Stabenow, Lead...
Michigan’s two U.S. Senate Democrats — Gary Peters & Debbie Stabenow — have been working on bipartisan pipeline safety legislation. Legislation is moving through committee and I wanted share this...
View ArticleDuring Paris Climate Summit, Obama Signed Exxon-, Koch-Backed Bill Expediting...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogJust over a week before the U.S. signed the Paris climate agreement at the conclusion of the COP21 United Nations summit, President Barack Obama signed a bill into law with...
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Why Was the Jordan Cove LNG Export Project Rejected?
This story was initially published on March 10, 2016 at http://360bybike.org/, before the project’s rejection by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). It provides an in-depth look at...
View ArticleTomgram: Michael Klare, The Coming World of "Peak Oil Demand," Not "Peak Oil"
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.[Note for TomDispatch Readers: This website will be taking May Day off. The next...
View Article350.org Gets Push-Back from the United Steelworkers Union on Move to Shutdown...
The organization 350.org recently announced its campaign to shut down United States petroleum refineries as part of its so-called “keep it in the ground” campaign. The campaign is expected to include...
View ArticleFirst Amendment Suspended in North Dakota – Democracy Now! Videos of Dog...
From: impracticalcogitator.wordpress.com/…An arrest warrant has been issued by Morton County, North Dakota, charging reporter Amy Goodman with criminal trespass after she released the videos of dogs...
View ArticleIt’s the Russian arctic shelf, stupid.
Oil is the reason behind Putin’s covert acts in helping trump to win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Specifically arctic shelf oil.The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), reports that...
View ArticleHuman Lives are worth ZERO says new EO today
Today, President Trump signed an Executive Order on zero-cost regulations. This new simple sounding order hides a core principal that is morally repugnant and just as frightening as banning new...
View ArticleUK to Ban New Petrol or Diesel Cars and Vans from 2040
The BBC is reporting that the UK government is expected to announce a ban on new petrol or diesel powered cars or vans (light trucks) from 2040 in order to meet pollution standards. The UK is in...
View ArticleCoal Country could be Solar & Wind Country. Why won't the R Senators...
Why do Republican politicians keep on lyingto voters in coal country about the reality of coal — what’s left in the ground is likely to stay there — and fail to point the way to the obvious answer to...
View ArticleWestern States Petroleum Association expands in-house lobbying team with...
SACRAMENTO —The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobbying group in California, on November 30 announced the addition of Margo Parks to their in house...
View ArticlePearce: Putting the American taxpayer and economy first
NM rep pearce on fracking. Translation: "pearce: putting corporate profits ahead of everyone and everything.”From his press release:"I applaud the BLM today for putting the American economy and...
View ArticleFine: Oil – before and after the November election
The full article is here→www.daily-times.com/...”The Trump Administration is moving towards less royalty rates on Federal land leases, less Bureau of Land Management discretion on Environmental...
View ArticleAnalysis: What's next for oil and gas prices after Putin-Trump summit? by Dr....
The full article is here→The full article by Dr. Fine“The opposition in Congress wants to see a transcript of what President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked about for two hours...
View ArticleMost of the 21,000 oil wells approved under Gov. Brown are in low-income...
Despite California’s image as a “green” and “progressive” leader, there has been a massive expansion of oil and gas drilling in the state under Governor Jerry Brown — and most of these new wells are...
View ArticleDr. Daniel Fine: Trump and oil in trade geopolitics
The full article is here→ www.daily-times.com/...Full Article “ “Unlike 1973, and its oil embargo against the United States, there is no supply threat from the Middle East. Consequently, only a demand...
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Saudi Bread&Circus (Israel/Palestine) Smokescreen for Next Global Empire
Updated 9 Dec 2018 Cutting to the punchline: get ready to love China. The following lays out the basis for a hypothesis.KSA princes close to and part of royal rule have attended top-flight...
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Warren: Ban American Paid Lobbying for Foreign Govts, Companies &...
2016 Al-Monitor Middle-East Lobbying email, Nov. 30: “Fresh off an unprecedented 63-37 Senate vote to move ahead with a bill to...
View ArticleReactions to Delaware Basin news shows misunderstanding of petroleum...
From the USA-TODAY Farmington Daily Times Energy MagazineThe full article can be found here→ www.daily-times.com/…News of the size of oil reserves in the Delaware Basin (New Mexico’s share of the...
View ArticleTrump Supports the Self Appointment of the Speaker of the House as President
Imagine that there were questions about the validity of President Trump’s election, as if, say, many believed that the will of the American electorate had been thwarted and widely held opinion believed...
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Osage Were Murdered Over Oil Royalties (1923) - Overall Legal Issues with...
My dad said once that he thought a priest belonged in a bar. A bar is where he sometimes slept on pool tables as a boy, the only bar in town in Western Oklahoma that served American Indians. His mom...
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It all has to go
What petroleum is used for75% of the oil refined and used in the US is burned. The remaining 25% goes into the manufacture of plastics, road asphalt, and lubrication. (Data from the US Energy...
View ArticleA must-read before the Rise for Climate March Sept. 8: Big Oil and WSPA's...
In all of the press releases, announcements and reports I’ve seen regarding the Brown’s Last Chance campaign and the Rise for Climate Day of Action in San Francisco on September 8, I have not seen any...
View ArticleLawsuit Challenges New Oil Drilling Project in Arvin, Kern County
Arvin, a small city of 19,304 located in Kern County 15 miles southeast of Bakersfield in the far southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, is a center of growing resistance to the powerful oil...
View ArticleState Water Board report documents oil industry pollutants in Kern County...
SACRAMENTO — California officials have allowed the oil and gas industry to pollute drinking water wells while expanding drilling in recent years, exposing the constant touting of the state as the...
View ArticlePsyops 101: How Big Oil Infiltrates Public Discourse to Manipulate &...
On Earth Day 2019, fifteen activists from the Extinction Rebellion carrying brightly colored signs and banners gathered at 12th and L Streets in in front of the State Capitol in Sacramento and then...
View ArticleAs Oil Drilling Expands, Coalition Urges Governor to Take Immediate Action to...
As the expansion of oil and gas drilling begun under Governor Jerry Brown continues in California, Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday signed into law a state budget that allocates $1.5 million for “a...
View Article800,000 Gallon Chevron Spill in California
Since May 10, a leak in an oil well operated by Chevron has resulted in 800,000 gallons of an oil/water mixture flooding an arroyo in the company’s sprawling Cymric Oil Field in California’s Kern...
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Osage Murdered Over Oil Royalties 1923: Overall Legal Issues with Crime Still...
My dad said once that he thought a priest belonged in a bar. A bar is where he sometimes slept on pool tables as a boy, the only bar in town in Western Oklahoma that served American Indians. His mom...
View ArticleNassiriya, Iraq “The street was filled with protesters' blood...”
on November 28, Amnesty International reported an eyewitness saying of a scene like a war-zone, when government SWAT, anti-riot and other security forces used live ammunition and a bulldozer to...
View ArticleHitting the brakes by Kevin Robinson-Avila in the Albuquerque Journal 4/8/20
To read the complete article it is here→ The complete article“Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque JournalNew Mexico’s oil and gas industry is teetering on a near-shutdown, slammed by plunging demand for oil...
View ArticleAlternative Energy - A Complete Solution
Background:I have degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and I have worked in the petroleum processing industry.Some History:I have told many friends my view on why human population levels have...
View ArticleInterview with two leading energy experts on the collapse of the Oil/Natural...
The interview with Dr. Daniel Fine and T. Greg Merrion can be found here→ xxYouTube VideoWas the oil market manipulated to plunge below ZERO dollars! Yes. What will the effect this oil bust be on a...
View ArticleWestern States Petroleum Association, Chevron spend $2.7 million lobbying in...
From January 1 to March 31, 2020, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobby in California, spent $1,089,702 lobbying state officials, according to...
View ArticleCalifornia Regulators Approve 12 New Permits for Chevron to Frack in Kern County
As Tribes, conservationists and environmental justice advocates were celebrating a federal ruling temporarily halting operations by the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline, anti-fracking activists in...
View ArticleL.A. City Council Committee votes to pursue a citywide phase-out of oil and...
LOS ANGELES — On December 1, the Environment, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice Committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to move toward a citywide phase-out of oil drilling....
View ArticleCommentary: Interior leadership and Biden on Climate Change security Dr....
With the Department of Interior under the leadership of Interior secretary nominee Deb Haaland, the Biden Administration would open the way towards energy and climate. No longer would federal land and...
View ArticleGroups Sue California's Kern County for Fast-Tracking Over 40,000 New Oil and...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— It’s back to court for a plan by Kern County to expand oil and gas drilling in the county, the center of oil and gas production in California.As many had expected, environmental...
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windfalls are a feature not a bug in oil supply & gas prices
What applies to insurrection applies to the illusion of fuel prices. “Not one person in power has yet been held accountable.(@TribeLaw)” There are lags in price changes and there is firm-level...
View ArticleCritics Say Newsom's Proposed 2022-23 Budget 'Falls Short' on Confronting...
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom on January 10 unveiled his 2022-23 state budget proposal including a $45.7 billion budget surplus, receiving both criticism and praise from environmental and climate...
View ArticleFederal government forecasts that U.S. oil production in 2023 will surpass...
This is one of the biggest environmental news stories to date, but I’m apparently one of the few investigative journalists who understands how significant it is.In case you were thinking that the...
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Jukka Kukkonen: 12 EV market trends to watch in 2022
This is being reposted from the Fresh Energy site with permission from its author, Jukka Kukkonen who is a clean transportation consultant for Fresh Energy and founder and chief EV educator at...
View ArticleEnding the War—Phase II
Daily Kos started nearly twenty years ago partly as a reaction to the war in Iraq. It has benefited both then and now with Markos’s experience in the army, and a number of Kos regulars posting about...
View ArticleThe Politics of Gouging – More Pain, More Gain
Don’t expect any relief soon; pain at the pump is a political windfallIt’s complicated. That’s the response to questions about why prices, especially at the pump, have skyrocketed. It is true, the...
View ArticleGovernor Newsom Asks Legislature to Deliver 3,200 Ft. Setbacks on New and...
On August 12, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked the State Legislature to end neighborhood oil drilling as part of a climate package he’s trying to pass before the end of the year’s legislative...
View ArticleHere's A Headline You Won't See On Fox Noise
“Joe Biden made the oil trade of the year”From Tim Fernholz at Quartz via Yahoo.Biden sold 180 million barrels of the strategic petroleum reserve at about $96ish per barrel and is now refilling it at...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Tommy Thompson Trail - Anacortes, WA
The Tommy Thompson Trail is a flat, 3.3 mile paved multi-use trail built along a former railroad grade. The trail traces the Fidalgo Bay shoreline from Anacortes out to March Point, the last section...
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New Energy Paradigm New Thinking
Energy is found in many, many forms, many of which we make the rhetorical mistake of naming after substances, or thinking of them as substances. We often call things like oil, coal, natural gas, etc....
View ArticleThe Age of Combustion
A really good movie draws me into its world and has me seeing and feeling the place, the time, and the circumstance of its lead characters. I feel a personal connection to them, empathize with their...
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