Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER Hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer has a very simple message for candidates who support American oil and gas jobs: “The goal here is not to win. The goal here is to destroy these people.” First on Steyer’s list for destruction: Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. Lynch’s crime? The former ironworker and local union president supports ...
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Apr 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: The president’s nominee for energy secretary advised a foundation created by an oil company that has flouted sanctions against Iran, a connection Republican aides in the Senate describe as troubling. Ernest Moniz was a paid adviser to a group founded by and working to advance the interests of Italian oil company Eni, according ...
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Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: Two environmental groups have accused Duke Energy, one of the Democratic Party’s major corporate supporters and a recipient of large green energy subsidies, of contaminating drinking water supplies in Charlotte, N.C. The plaintiffs say Duke is misleading the public about its environmental record, and could face federal sanctions and a hit to its ...
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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: Delays in federal permitting for oil and gas exploration on public land is likely reducing national energy production and depriving the federal government of revenue, according to a federal report released Friday. The report is the latest addition to a mounting body of evidence undercutting the administration’s claims that it has fostered increased ...
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Mar 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AFP: ARGONNE, Illinois — US President Barack Obama defended green energy research spending Friday, two weeks after budget cuts kicked in, warning that those reductions would leave America trailing its global rivals. In a speech that sought to develop his plan to spend $2 billion in the next decade on an energy security program, Obama ...
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Mar 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ~ Calvin Coolidge Excerpted from THE HILL: A bicameral group of Democrats floated draft legislation Tuesday that would impose a per-ton fee on carbon emissions from the nation’s largest polluters, such as electricity generators and petroleum refineries. “For far too long, carbon polluters have pushed the true ...
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Mar 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from INVESTORS: Empty Boast: As we have noted before in our Issues & Insights pages, President Obama has taken credit for an energy boom he had nothing to do with. A government agency now confirms what many have known to be true. The Congressional Research Service has released a report, "U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas ...
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Feb 22, 2013 No Comments ›› littlebytes
Via LBN Current Events: WA Gov met with Sec Chew&Dept of Energy confirms six tanks leaking radioactive waste at Hanford, 10 miles from Columbia River,no immediate risk;a week ago there was one tank leaking now there are six! Excerpted Fox News: YAKIMA, Wash. – Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at ...
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Feb 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from E2 Wire: With chants of "Hey, Obama, we don't want no climate drama" urging them on, about 50 activists were arrested outside the White House Wednesday while protesting the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. Among those taken into custody were actress Daryl Hannah and civil rights activist and former politician Julian Bond. Green groups ...
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Jan 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via Fox News: [...] Answering critics at a solar ribbon-cutting earlier this year, Gov. Jerry Brown laid down the gauntlet, affirming his commitment to solar energy and saying he would "crush" opponents of solar. "There are going to be screw-ups. There are going to be bankruptcies. There'll be indictments and there'll be deaths. But we're going to keep ...
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Sep 25, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(NATIONAL JOURNAL) Egypt’s new president Mohamed Morsi on Monday described the relationship between the U.S. and Egypt as somewhere between friends and enemies, pointing to President Obama’s remarks that the two countries are not allies. When asked by CBS’s Charlie Rose how he would characterize U.S.-Egypt relations, Morsi was evasive. He said that the two countries ...
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Sep 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNS NEWS)– Separate statements made Thursday by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed the nub of the issue that has sparked anti-U.S. protests in many Muslim countries – the incompatibility between shari’a and the First Amendment. “The Islamic sanctities and prophet Mohamed is a red line for all Muslims,” Egypt’s state ...
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Sep 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WHITE HOUSE GOV) EXECUTIVE ORDER ACCELERATING INVESTMENT IN INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote American manufacturing by helping to facilitate investments in energy efficiency at industrial facilities, it ...
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Aug 15, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(THE WALLSTREET JOURNAL) Democrats hoping the Solyndra issue will fade away this fall will get some bad news this week: Republican investigators may have found yet another trove of e-mails to explore. Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, plans as soon as Wednesday to ask for personal e-mails related to ...
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Aug 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNS NEWS) – The Department of Energy announced the distribution of $43 million in funding for the development of energy storage technology that is “too risky for private-sector investment.” The Aug. 2 press release said the recipients were chosen through two programs of DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy – the Advanced Management and Protection of ...
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Aug 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNS NEWS) - A report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that lifting the ban on federal oil drilling in certain areas could increase U.S. petroleum reserves by 30 percent, including an estimated 8 billion barrels of oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Using estimates from the Department of the ...
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Aug 9, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(WASHINGTON POST) President Obama’s staff arranged for him to be personally briefed last summer on a loan program to help clean-energy companies, two months before the program was thrust into headlines by the collapse of its flagship, the solar company Solyndra, records show. About the same time, then-White House Chief of Staff William Daley resolved a ...
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Jul 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – An audit conducted by the Energy Department’s Office of Inspector General was "unable to locate" $500,000 worth of equipment purchased with stimulus money by a recipient of funds distributed through the deparment's “Advanced Batteries and Hybrid Components Program,” according to an audit report published by the OIG. The DOE said it ...
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Jun 27, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal: America will halve its reliance on Middle East oil by the end of this decade and could end it completely by 2035 due to declining demand and the rapid growth of new petroleum sources in the Western Hemisphere, energy analysts now anticipate. The shift, a result of technological advances that ...
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Jun 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: On Wednesday the Department of Energy began financing solar power installation research with a $2 million award to Solar Mosaic. The solar energy research company has former Obama “green jobs” czar Van Jones listed as an advisor. It also employed Rebuild the Dream, Jones’ firm, to do its public relations ...
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Mar 13, 2012 2 Comments ›› Angelia
Heritage.com: In a stunning round of questioning this afternoon, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he no longer wishes for gas prices to rise to historic levels, as he has previously and repeatedly promoted. At a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, Senator Mike Lee (R-Ut.) asked Secretary Chu: “So are you saying you no longer ...
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