Tag: fracking
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Fallacious Claims Prop Up Ethanol
HOW CAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS STILL SUPPORT RISING RENEWABLE FUEL MANDATES? by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Oct. 7, 2013) — Arguments put forward to support ethanol and other biofuels hold water like sieves – leaking billions of gallons of precious fresh water that are required to produce this expensive, unsustainable energy. These and other renewable energy programs…
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Remembering the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo
POLITICIANS, POLICY MAKERS AND JOURNALISTS MAY REMEMBER THE EMBARGO, BUT IGNORE ITS LESSONS by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Sep. 29, 2013) — This fall marks the fortieth anniversary of the Arab oil embargo, a painful episode in American history that had a profound effect on both the economy and psyche of the United States. It began…
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Stop Denying Climate Science and ACT! (Before People Realize It’s a Scam)
COLLAPSING SCIENCE, ECONOMIES AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION REQUIRE THAT WE REFUSE TO ACT by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Sep. 2, 2013) — The full-court press is on. Alarmist scientists, politicians, pressure groups, newspapers, ministers, rabbis and bureaucrats want Americans to “stop stalling” on climate change. They demand that we embrace “revenue-neutral” carbon taxes and carbon dioxide regulations,…
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Fracking Brings Employment and Economic Revival
BUT ANTI-ENERGY ACTIVISTS PROMOTE FALSEHOODS ABOUT THIS VITAL, SAFE JOB-CREATING TECHNOLOGY They inhabit a callous parallel universe and wage war on cheap energy, jobs and the poor by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Jul. 28, 2013) — Signs of pride and prosperity were evident all over Williamsport and the gorgeous northern Pennsylvania countryside around it. Friendly, happy…
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Mindless “Green” Indoctrination of Children
FRACKING OFFERS CASE STUDY OF PROPAGANDA BY ENVIRONMENTALISTS, TEACHERS AND FELLOW STUDENTS by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (May 28, 2013) — “We’re from the Earth Guardians group, and we’re working on fracking and how it’s going to affect our future and our health. So we wrote this song for all the gas companies that are putting their…
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Support Drilling, Fracking, Keystone … and Exports
WE DON’T NEED TO RESTRICT OIL OR GAS EXPORTS. WE NEED TO OPEN MORE LANDS TO LEASING AND DRILLING. by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Apr. 29, 2013) — The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again…
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EPA’s Tier 3 Tyranny
HIGH COST, NO BENEFIT DOES NOTHING TO FORESTALL AGENCY’S QUEST FOR ECOLOGICAL UTOPIA by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Apr. 16, 2013) — Mr. Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits, but will impose high economic and unemployment costs, often to advance…
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Important Questions for Obama Nominees
INTERIOR, ENERGY AND EPA NOMINEES RAISE SERIOUS QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED by Craig Rucker, ©2013 (Apr. 1, 2013) — In his second inaugural address, Obama pledged to address “the threat of climate change” because no one can avoid “the devastating impact of raging fires, crippling droughts and more powerful storms.” Obama had said nothing…
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Obama Rape and Plunder of America
IS THIS THE AMERICA OF TODAY, OR TOMORROW? by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2013 (Mar. 26, 2013) — All that Americans have held on to and relied on is being assaulted. Obama won’t stop until America is forced into submission to his Dictatorship plans and the rest of us locked up or killed. What survives the Obama…
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Eco-imperialism Joins Vulture Environmentalism
OBAMA APPOINTEES SEEK TO IMPOSE IDEOLOGICAL CONTROL OVER OUR ENERGY, ECONOMY AND PROPERTY by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Mar. 24, 2013) — Gina McCarthy, Obama’s choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use “dangerous manmade climate change” to justify new…
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Our Real Manmade Climate Crisis
THE CRISIS IS DUE NOT TO CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT TO ACTIONS TAKEN IN THE NAME OF PREVENTING CHANGE by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Mar. 6, 2013) — In his first address as Secretary of State, John Kerry said we must safeguard “the most sacred trust” we owe to our children and grandchildren: “an environment not ravaged…
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Real Sustainability Versus Activist Sustainability
ACTIVIST SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS DON’T MEET ENVIRONMENTAL, HUMANITARIAN OR SUSTAINABILITY TESTS by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Feb. 7, 2013) — Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or…
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Real Sustainability Versus Activist Sustainability
ACTIVIST-SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS DON’T MEET ENVIRONMENTAL, HUMANITARIAN OR SUSTAINABILITY TESTS by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Feb. 2, 2013) — Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or isn’t…
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Who’s Afraid of Fracking?
FACT VS. FICTION by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Jan. 14, 2013) — Federal and state environmental officials have given hydraulic fracturing a clean bill of health. Why do radical environmentalists continue to wage war on this game-changing technology? Deroy Murdock If frackophobes are to be believed, natural-gas fracking is the most frightful environmental nightmare since Japan’s Fukushima…
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The New Robber Barons
THE OBAMA GANG IS STEALING OUR TAXES, ENERGY RESOURCES, REVENUES, JOBS AND ECONOMY by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Dec. 22, 2012) — An oil and natural gas boom is under way in the United States, born of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” It has created tens of thousands of well-paying jobs directly, and hundreds of…
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The Doha Wealth Redistribution Process Moves On
CLIMATE ALARMISTS DIDN’T GET ALL THEY WANTED – BUT THEY PUT US ON A VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE by David Rothbard and Craig Rucker, ©2012 (Dec. 15, 2012) — The eighteenth Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP-18) has ended. It was the latest chapter in the interminable negotiations over wealth redistribution and control of energy…
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Obama’s Walt Disney Energy Policies
WISHES UPON STARTS WON’T MAKE ENERGY DREAMS COME TRUE – BUT WILL BRING NIGHTMARES by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Dec. 10, 2012) — In Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film “Pinocchio,” woodcarver Geppetto dreams that his wooden marionette will turn into a real boy. Geppetto’s hopes are immortalized in the song “When You Wish Upon a Star,”…
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Energy and Environment Issues for 2012
WHAT POLICIES WILL BEST STRENGTHEN AMERICA’S ENERGY AND ECONOMIC FUTURE? by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Nov. 7, 2012) — America needs to pursue all its energy options. Oil, gas, coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, solar and biofuels should all be pursued – under free market conditions, without crony capitalist subsidies. We should open onshore and offshore…
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Fractured Fairy Tales
GREENS HATE NATURAL GAS AND FRACKING, BUT COSTLY, PARASITIC WIND ENERGY CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT IT by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Nov. 2 2012) — Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have boosted shale gas production from zero a few years ago to 10% of all US energy supplies in 2012, observes energy analyst Daniel Yergin. Fracking has also…
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Climate Alarmism: Our Sanity and Wallets Need a Break
BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE DISRUPTING OUR POLITICS, SCIENCE, ENERGY POLICIES AND ECONOMY by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Sep. 16, 2012) — Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the…