The Texas legislature has been busy on energy.
House Bill 40, similar to House Bills 539 and 540, steamrolled through the House of Representatives last week by a vote of 122 to 18. Reminds us of A L pitchers not rookies and the Rangers’ betting order.
The bill would preempt local control of
It was an abrupt and remarkable about-face. In a Rose Garden ceremony in the presence of the CEOs of America’s largest oil companies and special guest David Koch (brother Charles remained ball-gagged and handcuffed by the editorial board of The Nation), President Obama signed an executive order fast-tracking construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Who should decide when, where, how, and even if, hydraulic fracturing should occur?
The locals: “You hypocrites Our good public servants in Austin want ‘local control’ when its against Washington, but deny us the same right. We know better than you about what’s best for our community. To hell with catastrophic litigation exposure and
The box scores after election day showed frackers 4, anti’s 4. Courtesy of a gubernatorial grand-slam by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, hydraulic fracturing is now banned throughout the entire state of New York.
In this ballgame within a ballgame, it’s
Yoko and Shawn, the likes of Moveon.org , and wealthy Manhattanites: 1
Mineral owners, asthmatics
As you probably know, the Denton City Council denied a petition signed by several thousand citizens to ban hydraulic fracturing within the city limits. The denial sent the question to the November 4 general election ballot. Here is the proposition, its legalese in full bloom:
SHALL AN ORDINANCE BE ENACTED PROHIBITING, WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS
“What is it like to live inside your head with Peter Pan and the Easter Bunny?” So asks the sister in “Bridges of Madison County” after the brother wonders if the Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood characters had sex all those years ago.
And so it is from certain quarters in the hydraulic fracking debate
In their search for Utopia, some opponents of oil and gas drilling ignore innovation … What’s harmful now will forever be that way.
The Question
That isn’t true, but it raises a question for producers: What are you doing to reduce the negative effects of your activities on the communities where you operate?
The Answers
Who is that man on the right?
a. Lineal descendant of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
b. Reincarnation of Froederick Fronkensteen,
c. Tootsie … in the later years,
d. Ernest Moniz, Secretary of the U.S Department of Energy
Other than Solyndra, what comes to mind when
In considering how many bad reasons President Obama might have in announcing a delay of his Keystone Pipeline decision, you’ve got to feel like the hungry mosquito at the nudist colony: There is so much opportunity you don’t know where to start. I can think of 253: 199 Democratic members of the U S House,
Do bystanders see oil and gas producers as taking a stand for morality? Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress says they should. He approaches the value of fossil fuels in our society differently from most industry defenders. The opponents make a moral case against fossil fuels: They destroy the earth and their use