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Morning Post Jan 18

Tar! Sands! Looks like the Keystone project is getting a big ‘hell no.’ Via The Hill: The Obama administration will reject the Keystone XL pipeline [...]
January 18, 2012 | Posted in: Current Events, Energy | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Fracking latest

Well since I just got interviewed on the radio, I guess I ought to post something new on fracking. Actually, there is quite a bit [...]
October 11, 2011 | Posted in: Current Events, Energy, Environment, NCHouse | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Fracking updates

Lisa Sorg has another piece out on the fracking of NC. This one deals with the lease agreements. He overview story from a few issues [...]
May 27, 2011 | Posted in: Current Events, Energy, Environment, Legislation | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Fracking, Offshore drilling bill passes NC Senate

After a brief debate the NC Senate has passed an energy bill that sets up offshore drilling and fracking for natural gas in NC. The [...]
May 10, 2011 | Posted in: Energy, Environment, NCSenate | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

The fruits of those ideological differences

in 2000 BP was under pressure to improve this well in 2003 the government dropped its objections Story here.
May 1, 2010 | Posted in: Energy, Environment | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Journalism

Fair and balanced? Paragraph One and Two Imagine your power bill going up by $200 a month. Progress Energy spokesman Mike Hughes said Thursday that [...]
July 3, 2009 | Posted in: Energy, Environment | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Sorry Detroit

(Note: I grew up in the midwest, much of the time in an area where the auto industry was an important source of jobs. So [...]
November 3, 2008 | Posted in: Economy, Energy, Environment | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Crisis, what crisis?

Spent a good deal of time looking at solar and wind for the house after a friend alerted me to the fact that even Costco [...]
June 23, 2008 | Posted in: Current Events, Energy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink