In the aftermath of the BP Gulf spill which happened last April, four oil industry giants today unveiled a new system for containing future spills in the Gulf. Last July ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and Conoco/Phillips promised and has since pooled $1 billion in assets to form a new company called The Marine Well Containment Company which will be available for any company in its pool | Read More »
Update 2/17/11 6:15pm. Federal Court Orders Obama Administration to Act on Stalled Deepwater Drilling Permits. H/t to Kenny Solomon who assisted with finding some of this info. OK guys. This is tough love time. I can’t put it any other way, things are getting really serious. While we have been distracted with goings-on in the Middle East those in the present administration are wrecking havoc | Read More »
The controversial anti-abortion activist and founder of Operation Rescue (every time I go to their website my computer locks up, so no linkie, sorry) has announced his candidacy for POTUS. The Republican-turned-Democrat told me at CPAC his reasoning for the change of party was so not to split the Republican vote. Because he has raised at least $5,000 he will be a “federal” candidate and | Read More »
Talk over the last few weeks as Egyptian riots and now a full-blown revolution takes hold was Mubarak’s “decision” to hit the internet kill-switch and shut it all down: twitter, Facebook, MySpace and all internet. Americans were predictably outraged. After all, here and in many other parts of the world internet and social media networking have become almost a necessity. I hunted down some tweeps | Read More »
Shall I give you the good news first? US District Court Judge Martin Feldman of New Orleans has found the Department of Interior in civil contempt for continuing the Gulf drilling moratorium against his orders. Yes, folks. You heard that correctly. Back in June Judge Feldman had refused, at the Interior Department’s request, to delay the decision’s effects after he earlier struck down the moratorium. | Read More »
H/t to Rusty Weiss who lives in Troy for alerting me the Troy NY Grand Jury had finished their duties. After almost two months of testimony a Rensselaer County, New York Grand Jury handed down indictments for Troy, NY city councilman Michael LoPorto and Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward G. McDonough. According to the Times Union McDonough faces 38 counts of forgery and 36 counts of | Read More »
Natural gas is the cleanest-burning and most efficient of all the fossil fuels. Because of the age of the Appalachian Mountains, 480-600 million years old, a wealth of fossil fuels, i.e. coal, oil and natural gas was created by Mother Nature ripe for the picking by this country and probably enough to keep the US fuel-independent for a very long time. Natural gas drilling has | Read More »
This is not going to be a post full of links and facts. I became agitated by a tweet on twitter asserting that Donald Trump was pretty much “full of it” when he declared China could produce a competitive fleet of aircraft to rival Boeing. I’ve been there. China, that is. North, south east and west. From Beijing to Xian to Chongqing to Shanghai to | Read More »
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee will introduce the Spending Reduction Act of 2011 at noon today. This Act reduces federal spending by $2.5 trillion over ten years. The bill will specifically hold FY 2011 non-security discretionary spending to FY 08 levels, hold non-defense discretionary spending to FY 06 levels thereafter for the rest of the ten-year budget window (the same | Read More »
FYI just found this 45 page doc on WVA coal facts, from taxes paid, employment, production & more. WVA is No.2 in US coal production behind No. 1 Wyoming. WVA ships coal to 33 states & 23 countries and accounts for 50% of all US coal exports. 1/2 of the electricity in this country comes from coal. Page 20 on the document, page 18 according | Read More »
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