Environment
The Domestic Crude Oil Revolution - The bottom is falling out of Crude Oil Prices
The bottom is falling out of the price of crude oil, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are caving to the public’s demand for more drilling and now, finally, we’re seeing a revolution in domestic oil production with even more fallout in crude oil prices on the way.
In a recent appearance on The Daily Show, House [...]
Dead chickens, the weirdest renewable
United Press International, quoting the Swedish newspaper Vasterbottens-Kuriren, reports that Umea Energi, a Swedish utility, is using chicken carcasses from local egg farms to fuel an existing waste-to-energy plant.
The utility, in far northern Sweden, incinerates waste to produce both electricity and district heat for Umea, a city of 110,000. A company spokesman noted that “chickens [...]
More waters off California may be off limits to oil drilling
Los Angeles - A stretch of the Pacific Ocean off California’s wild north coast seems poised to get permanent federal protection from oil exploration and other development, in recognition that the area lies within one of the four richest marine feeding grounds in the world.
The US Senate is expected this week to vote in favor [...]
Oil Canals May Have Worstened Effects of Katrina
IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA - Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.
There are 10,000 miles of these [...]
