Tag: fracking

  • Real Energy for a New American Renaissance

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    SENSIBLE, RESPONSIBLE ENERGY POLICIES MUST REPLACE TODAY’S SUBSIDIES AND CRONY CORPORATISM by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Aug. 18, 2012) — America needs more economic growth, domestic manufacturing, jobs – and secure, affordable energy to make those things happen. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney understands that achieving this goal requires unleashing American ingenuity, reducing excessive regulatory strangleholds on businesses…

  • The Folly of E15 Anti-Hydrocarbon Policies

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    EPA’s E-15 ETHANOL PLAN IS BAD FOR OUR POCKETBOOKS, ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY POLICY by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Apr. 24, 2012) — The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists. The latest chapter…

  • Fracking: An Existential Threat to Green Dogma

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    MISLEADING CLAIMS ABOUT SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT SERVE DOGMA BUT NOT THE PUBLIC INTEREST by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Mar. 28, 2012) — The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to “stop fracking in its tracks.” No wonder. The technology is an existential threat to fundamental “green” dogmas. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing…

  • Tapping Natural Resources to Address Maryland’s Economic Problems

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    WE SHOULD DEVELOP PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE ENERGY RESOURCES TO GENERATE JOBS, REVENUES by Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. (Oct. 19, 2011) — Maryland’s 7.2% unemployment rate is below the national average, but still too high. Budget shortfalls next year could reach $700 million or more, the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute warns. Many of our cities…

  • What the Frack is Going On Here?

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    HYDRAULIC FRACTURING OPPONENTS MISREPRESENT FACTS TO PROTECT THEIR IDEOLOGIES AND AGENDAS by Paul Driessen (Oct. 2, 2011) — Hydraulic fracturing sends “huge volumes of toxic fluids” deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims. “Billions of gallons of toxic fluids” will “contaminate” groundwater and drinking…