Posted by Andy Stevenson in Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
One of the key findings from a new NRDC climate policy study is that policies to support CO2 capture and sequestration at power plants and industrial facilities could also help recover almost 37 billion barrels of stranded domestic oil by 2050. This increase...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Despite the fact that the number of rigs exploring for natural gas in the US has dropped by over 40% in the past six months, the supply of natural gas in the market remains stubbornly high. In fact, weak industrial...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
While the coal industry has been very receptive to meeting the needs of a large coal-to-liquids (CTL) industry in the United States, it seems unclear how they would actually service these new customers with domestic coal supplies at reasonable prices....continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Baard Energy has announced that it is seeking $2.3bln in government guaranteed low interest rate loans from the Department of Energy to help construct a new $6bln coal to liquids fuel plant in Wellsville, Ohio. This proposal should be viewed...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution
Baard Energy's suggestion last week that the US Air Force should effectively ignore its own environmental regulations and commit to buy Baard's synthetic fuel as a way to help revive employment opportunities in Ohio should be dismissed outright. In fact,...continued→
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution
Background Baard Energy is proposing to build a $5.5 billion synthetic-fuel plant known as the Ohio River Clean Fuels LLC ("ORCF") facility that would produce 53,000 barrels of liquid fuels from coal per day and provide at least 250MW of...continued→
