Believe It Or Not: Exxon Mobil Now Favors a Tax on Carbon

December 9, 2015

Tax Me, Says Exxon Mobil, in Declaring Support for Climate Talks From an Article by Alex Nussbaum, Bloomberg Business News, December 2, 2015 Exxon Mobil Corp., a favorite target of global warming activists, said (last week) that it’s hopeful for a deal out of the climate-change talks in Paris and still thinks the best solution [...]

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Let’s Enlist Psychology to Help Deal with Climate Change

December 8, 2015

How Psychology Can Save the World from Climate Change From an Article by Tania Lombrozo, National Public Radio, November 29, 2015 Representatives from nearly 200 countries are meeting in France to discuss climate change — and for good reason. To quote President Obama’s State of the Union Address from earlier this year: “No challenge  —  no challenge [...]

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Forced Pooling Resurfaces in the WV Legislature

December 7, 2015

Delegate Woody Ireland (R – Ritchie County) Strongly Pushing Forced Pooling From an Article by Liz McCormick, WV Public Broadcasting, November 17, 2015 Two bills that both died on the final night of the 2015 legislative session, resurfaced (Monday) during interim meetings – forced pooling and public charter schools. Both ideas erupted in debate in [...]

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WV State “Energy Plan 2013 – 2017″

December 6, 2015

WV Energy Plan — WV Division of Energy, Department of Commerce, Charleston, WV The West Virginia Division of Energy is administratively within the WV Department of Commerce.  The latest five (5) year plan for the State of West Virginia is entitled: Energy Plan 2013 – 2017, 402 pp. <Flip Book> The full WV Energy Plan [...]

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Best Idea Yet — Transition to Renewables via Price on Carbon

December 5, 2015

Elon Musk: Put a Price on Carbon to Expedite Transition to Renewables From an Article by Cole Mellino, EcoWatch.com, December 4, 2015 Speaking to students at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Elon Musk said we need a price on carbon similar to the one abolished in Australia to halve the time it will take to [...]

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Part 2. Energy Sources:Return on Investment (ROI)

December 4, 2015

“Return on Investment” (ROI) is used in industry to select projects for funding Essay by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor and Resident Farmer, Lewis County, WV Part 1 considered “energy return on energy invested” (ERoEI). Unfortunately, there is typically a single value which determines where investment money goes in our economic system. It is [...]

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Comment Period Expires December 4th for US-EPA Methane Emissions Control Plan

December 3, 2015

Please Comment on the US EPA Plan to Limit and Control CH4 Emissions ACTION: Extension of comment period to December 4th SUMMARY: On September 18, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rules titled, “Source Determination for Certain Emission Units in the Oil and Natural Gas Sector” and “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards [...]

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FERC Commissioner Shows Big Business Attitude

December 2, 2015

Comments on remarks made by Tony Clark for FERC, December 1, 2015 Essay by S. Tom Bond, Resident Farmer at Jane Lew, Lewis County, WV   Tony Clark is a Commissioner of FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.  The remarks made on which I comment were made on December 1, 2015 to the Committee on [...]

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Part 1. Energy Sources: Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI) — A Worthy Concept Difficult to Calculate

December 1, 2015

Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI) is a useful concept if interpreted correctly! An Essay by S. Tom Bond, Retired Chemistry Professor and Resident Farmer, Lewis County There are two very important unfamiliar quantities connected with depletion of resources: “energy return on energy invested” and “net energy”. In simple mathematical form one measures or calculates [...]

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“Almost Out of Time” — Living on Earth with James Hansen

November 30, 2015

Prof. James Hansen was arrested in front of the White House in 2011 LOE Host Steve Curwood interviews James Hansen, November 27, 2015 Back in the 1970s, NASA scientist James Hansen was one of the first to recognize the dangerous impacts that rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions could have on the earth’s climate. Now [...]

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