Keystone pipeline: giant environment-eating snake or friendly gap-toothed bumpkin fuelling your tank?
In the energy business, a new pipeline that can carry 800 thousand barrels a day hardly makes the news; there are literally millions of miles of pipelines criss-crossing North America, including almost 200 thousand miles of big oil ones. Some pipelines have sprung leaks, which are disgusting and unacceptable, but spills of any magnitude […]
Asia/Pacific summit: US/China chart green(er) energy future, Putin punches baby that appears potentially gay
The US and China announced a plan to implement new limits on carbon emissions in November at the Asia Pacific economic conference or something, whatever it was called. The plan was met with lukewarm enthusiasm by “experts” (according to Reuters) because it didn’t break any new ground. Still, it is undeniably good news to have […]
What are oil and gas reserves?
When you think of oil reserves, and I’m sure it’s often and with great passion, do you imagine this… or this? Well let’s face it, odds are you never put more than a second’s thought into it. Maybe you’re the kind of person who reads about something like that in the news, and it sounds technical, […]
What would you have done? or, It made sense at the time…
Something this website tries to promote is the notion that armchair quarterbacking is easy, particularly after the fact. We all know that, but we still all do it and often for good reason; we learn from mistakes by analyzing what happened and learn for next time. The tough part is to learn when not to […]
What is fracking? Is it dangerous?
Fracking is an oil/gas recovery technique that has been used in the petroleum business for a long time and traditionally has attracted no more attention than the twelve year old issues of I Love Cats you find in the doctor’s office (or is that just my doctor?). Then some folks in a Pennsylvania fracking-frenzy zone […]
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