Obama Punts, Delays Pipeline Decision

By: Nick Ottens (Diary)  |  November 10th at 02:27 PM  | 

So this is leadership. Reuters reports that President Barack Obama plans to announce on Thursday that his administration will explore an alternative route for a Canada-Texas oil pipeline, delaying final approval until after the 2012 presidential election. The $7 billion Keystone XL project is designed to carry oil—the equivalent of more than a million barrels of oil per day—from tar fields in Alberta to refineries | Read More »

EPA Continues War on Coal in Texas

By: Nick Ottens (Diary)  |  July 13th at 10:21 AM  | 

Remember when then Senator Barack Obama said in 2008 that electricity rates would “necessarily skyrocket” as a result of his cap and trade system? He predicted at the time that he would also bankrupt the coal industry. So if someone wants to build a coal power plant, they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge | Read More »

The Gospel of Protecting the Environment

By: Nick Ottens (Diary)  |  March 15th at 10:22 AM  | 

Global warming has given rise to an eerily religious campaign in which Christians and nonbelievers join hand in hand to make the rest of humanity repent for its environmental sins. Climate change should not become another tool in the hands of anti-capitalists. Instead it is with industry and scientific progress that man can best combat his changing natural world. Writing for The Huffington Post, Reverend | Read More »

The Failure of the Environmentalist Lobby

By: Nick Ottens (Diary)  |  November 30th at 11:55 AM  | 

argaret Wende has an excellent article in The Globe and Mail that describes the failure of the environmentalist lobby. She first lambasts environmentalists, politicians and journalists who had such high hopes for the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen earlier this year. The only surprise was that this outcome should have come as a surprise to so many intelligent people. These people actually seemed to | Read More »