NYT Letters: Concerns About the Safety of Drilling

December 27, 2012

Concerns About the Safety of Drilling NEW YORK TIMES, December 25, 2012 To the Editor, New York Times: In “Sending Natural Gas Abroad” (editorial, Dec. 16), you write that environmental concerns about fracking for gas should be addressed by tighter regulation, not by restricting exports. But the evidence shows that there is no amount of [...]

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The Emporer Has No Gas Boom In WV

December 26, 2012

The Emporer Has No Gas Boom In WV   By Sean O’Leary – The State of My State, December 20, 2012,  journal-news.net  . On December 10th, WV Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin convened his annual Governor’s Energy Summit at which leaders from industry, academe and government gathered to studiously avoid addressing the only question that should have [...]

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Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

December 25, 2012

  Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer By Randy Brooks, 1979. Grandma got runned over by a reindeer Walking home from our house Christmas Eve. You can say there’s no such thing as Santa, But as for me and Grandpa, we believe. She’d been drinkin’ too much eggnog, And we’d begged her not to [...]

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These Are The True Gifts, For The Earth: Our Home

December 24, 2012

Year-End Essay on Climate Change By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, December 24th See the full article on EcoWatch.org or here. As this wild year comes to an end, we return to the season of gifts. Here’s the gift you’re not going to get soon: any conventional version of Paradise. You know, the place where nothing much [...]

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Huge Flaws Exposed in Natural Gas LNG Export Report

December 23, 2012

Huge Flaws Exposed in Natural Gas LNG Export Report  From EcoWatch, December 17th According to a press release from U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a report submitted to the Department of Energy on the impacts of natural gas exports uses two-year-old data and makes other key missteps. Rep. Markey, Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee, pointed [...]

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How to Tackle Climate Change Head On

December 22, 2012

How to Tackle Climate Change Head On  From the Article by Danielle Baussan and Daniel J. Weiss, Center for American Progress, December 14th Largely due to destruction caused by recent climate-related extreme weather events in the U.S., there is a new urgency in our nation to adopt additional carbon pollution reduction measures. In 2011 and [...]

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The Energy Alternatives: Extreme Petroleum — Parts 7 thru 10

December 21, 2012

The Energy Alternatives: Extreme Petroleum III By S. Thomas Bond, Lewis County, WV PART VII We will consider hypothetical possibilities here, then shale drilling and finally have some concluding remarks about the overall long-range situation with regard to petroleum. First, methane clathrates which are also called methane hydrates. Vast amounts of clathrates exist, they are [...]

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The Energy Alternatives: Extreme Petroleum — Parts 4 thru 6

December 20, 2012

The Energy Alternatives: Extreme Petroleum II By S. Thomas Bond, Lewis County, WV PART IV Before we start the second part of Extreme Petroleum we must define an important ratio qualifying the utility of an energy source. It is energy return for energy invested, referred to as EROEI. It is simply how much energy you [...]

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The Energy Alternatives: Extreme Petroleum — Parts 1 thru 3

December 19, 2012

The Energy Alternatives: Extreme Petroleum By S. Thomas Bond, Lewis County, WV   PART I We all know “the easy stuff is gone” when it comes to fossil fuels (and many other resources as well).  Let’s take a closer look at the extremes the human race is using to get oil and gas.  Companies are [...]

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Sending U.S. Natural Gas Abroad in LNG Tankers

December 18, 2012

SUMMARY: Sunday Editorial, New York Times, December 15, 2012 Sending U.S. Natural Gas Abroad in LNG Tankers A new and long-awaited report from the Department of Energy has concluded that the government should quickly begin easing restrictions on the export of natural gas to take advantage of the vast new discoveries of a fuel that [...]

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