Tag: Paul Driessen
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Still More Politicized Pseudo-Science?
THE NEONICS AND HONEYBEES SAGA TAKES INTERESTING, POTENTIALLY FRAUDULENT TURN by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Dec. 14, 2014) — Widening efforts to blame neonicotinoid pesticides for honeybee “colony collapse disorder” and other “beepocalypse” problems have taken a fascinating turn. Insisting that scientific evidence shows a clear link between neonics and honeybee population declines, EU anti-insecticide campaigners…
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EPA’s Next Regulatory Tsunami
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN OZONE AND ECONOMIC STAGNATION COSTS, FOR FABRICATED BENEFITS by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Nov. 16, 2014) — Looming Environmental Protection Agency ozone regulations personify the Obama administration’s secrecy, collusion, fraud, and disdain for concerns about the effects that its tsunami of regulations is having on the livelihoods, living standards, health and welfare of…
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It’s Rarely About the Environment Anymore
IT’S ABOUT SLASHING OUR ENERGY USE, FREE ENTERPRISE, JOB CREATION, LIVING STANDARDS AND FREEDOMS by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Oct. 25, 2014) — Back in 1970, when I got involved in the first Earth Day and nascent environmental movement, we had real pollution problems. But over time, new laws, regulations, attitudes and technologies cleaned up our air,…
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RFK, Jr. Wants Me Jailed … As a War Criminal!
PERHAPS HE SHOULD SERVE TIME FOR ECO-MANSLAUGHTER AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY? by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Oct. 5, 2014) — The “people’s climate march” was notable for the amazing energy, economic and climate illiteracy displayed by the mostly young people parading along New York City streets September 21. Their chants, rants and placards demanded that we stop…
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Protect the Poor – From Climate Change Policies
CORNWALL ALLIANCE WORKS TO ENSURE RELIABLE, AFFORDABLE ENERGY FOR POOR FAMILIES WORLDWIDE by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Sep. 26, 2014) — In a more rational, moral, compassionate, scientifically literate world, this Cornwall declaration would not be needed. It assesses the “far-reaching, costly policies” that the world’s governments are adopting, supposedly to prevent global warming and climate change.…
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What Really Drives Anti-Fracking Zealots?
THEY WANT TO END FOSSIL FUELS AND CAPITALISM, CONTROL OUR LIVES AND IMPOSE ECO-UTOPIA by Paul Driessen, ©2014, CFACT.org (Sep. 21, 2014) — Recent news stories underscore the tremendous benefits brought by America’s fracking revolution. * The shale oil production boom could boost US crude production to 9.5 million barrels of oil per day (bopd)…
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EPA’s Phony “Environmental Justice” Caper
THE AGENCY’S REAL AGENDA: EMPIRE, CONTROL, AND INVERTED JUSTICE FOR POOR AND MINORITY FAMILIES by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Sep. 8, 2014) — When it comes to energy, climate change, justice and transparency, the Obama Administration and its Environmental Protection Agency want it every possible way. Their only consistency is their double standards and their determination to…
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Panic in “Sustainable City”
AWARENESS AND ACTIVISM REAP RESULTS by Tom DeWeese, ©2014, The American Policy Center (Jul. 30, 2014) — The attacks came fast and furious, from March through June. A coordinated attack to vilify, ostracize and neutralize efforts by local citizen activists who are standing in opposition to Agenda 21 and its policy called Sustainable Development. The…
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Killing Marine Life With Ethanol
ETHANOL DAMAGES YOUR CARS, SMALL ENGINES, FOOD BUDGET – AND KILLS GULF OF MEXICO ANIMALS by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Jul. 20, 2014) — Ethanol and other biofuel mandates and subsidies got started when politicians bought into claims that we are rapidly depleting our petroleum, and fossil-fuel-driven global warming is boiling the planet. Hydraulic fracturing destroyed…
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Greenpeace Showcases Its Anti-Human Side
GREENPEACE ACTIVIST CONFIRMS EVERY NEGATIVE STORY YOU’VE EVER READ ABOUT THIS ACTIVIST GROUP by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Jul. 16, 2014) — It was a surreal experience. As the Heartland Institute’s hugely successful Ninth International Conference on Climate Change ended, I agreed to let Greenpeace activist Connor Gibson interview me. I’d just given a presentation on…
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Just Assume We Have a Climate Crisis
IMPOSE JOB-KILLING POLICIES ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT HUMANS ARE CAUSING A CO2-DRIVEN CATACLYSM by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Jun. 2, 2014) — Climate modelers and disaster proponents remind me of the four guys who were marooned on an island, after their plane went down. The engineer began drawing plans for a boat; the lumberjack cut trees…
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Blood Cancer Fundraiser in Its Final Three Weeks
“NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL” May 30, 2014 Since early April, as campaign manager for Ben Rubenstein’s CancerSlayer fundraising team, I have been raising money to for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man & Woman of the Year blood cancer research drive. We’ve raised over $30,000 so far, with just three weeks left in the…
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Big Green Goliath Wages Anti-Keystone War
MAINSTREAM MEDIA DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BIG GREEN HAS MUCH DEEPER POCKETS THAN BIG OIL by Ron Arnold (May 20, 2014) — The “Kill Keystone XL” crowd isn’t little environmental David up against a Big Oil Goliath. As usual, conventional wisdom isn’t wisdom when the mainstream media ask all the wrong questions, and get all…
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The Loony Anti-Keystone Campaign
IT IS THE SYMBOL OF BIG GREEN’S DIEHARD OPPOSITION TO HYDROCARBONS AND MODERN LIVING STANDARDS by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (May 19, 2014) — What is this incessant nonsense over Keystone XL? It’s a pipeline, for crying out loud. The United States already has 185,000 miles of liquid petroleum pipelines, 320,000 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines,…
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Should California Dictate US Energy Policies?
CAN THE REST OF AMERICA AFFORD ITS ALICE IN WONDERLAND ENERGY POLICIES? (CAN CALIFORNIA?) by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Apr. 27, 2014) — California loves to be seen as the trendsetter on energy and environmental policies. But can we really afford to adopt their laws and regulations in the rest of America? Heck, can the once Golden…
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EPA’s Tower of Pisa Policies
USING LIES TO SHORE UP POLICIES BUILT ON SHAKY FOUNDATIONS OF CLIMATE, PEAK OIL AND SUSTAINABILITY by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Apr. 21, 2014) — Built on a foundation of sand, the Leaning Tower of Pisa would have toppled over long ago, if not for ingenious engineering projects that keep it from tilting any further. The same…
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Perils of Commercial Beekeeping
HONEYBEES POLLINATE CROPS BUT ENDURE STRESS, PARASITES AND DISEASE. SOLUTIONS ARE COMING. by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Apr. 6, 2014) — One of America’s earliest food crops – almonds – is also one of the most important for commercial beekeepers. Almonds depend on bees for pollination, but the explosive growth of this bumper crop taxes the very…
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A Very PERSONAL Fundraising Appeal for Cancer Research
ORGANIZATION SEEKS TO WIPE OUT BLOOD CANCERS IN OUR LIFETIME by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Apr. 4, 2014) — Dear Friends, Family and Colleagues, I am honored to be campaign manager for Ben Rubenstein, whom I profiled in a 2013 article, and whom The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has nominated as a 2014 “Man &…
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Greener Than “Green”
FRACKING IS FRIENDLY TO PROTECTED SPECIES AND MOSQUITO-DEVOURING BATS by Deroy Murdock, ©2014 (Mar. 7, 2014) — Williamsport, PA — A constant, mild hiss. That was my chief observation when I returned to Anadarko Petroleum’s Landon Pad A, a natural-gas site in Lycoming County, PA. October’s quietude was totally unlike the cyclone of equipment, personnel and activity…
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The Ignorance and Hypocrisy Behind Oil Export Bans
HELP CONSUMERS, SECURITY, ENVIRONMENT BY ELIMINATING PROHIBITION ON EXPORTING U.S. OIL AND GAS by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Feb. 9, 2014) — US oil and gas production was already declining, when the 1973 Arab oil embargo sent oil and gasoline prices skyrocketing and created block-long lines at gas stations. Increased domestic production could have eased the supply…