Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
No one should be surprised that Big Oil talks the talk on the need to address the climate crisis while not bothering to actually walk the walk. At an industry conference this week in London, members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries showed...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
"Turn on more lights, burn more coal." -- Don Blankenship Don Blankenship is the CEO of Massey Energy, the largest coal producer in Appalachia and the most notorious perpetrator of mountaintop removal mining. Mr. Blankenship, known as "the scariest polluter in America", makes millions of dollars...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
"The U.S. should not pursue energy options inconsistent with the national response to climate change." That is the sober -- and welcome -- conclusion of a new report by the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), entitled Powering America's Defense:...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
With the Coal-to-Liquids conference kicking off today in Washington, D.C., I think it's worth adding another point to my previous argument against the notion of converting coal into liquified transportation fuel to offset petroleum. According to the latest U.S. Department of Energy calculations,...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Spring in Washington is a lovely time, with cherry blossoms about to bloom and tourists trekking to the Mall to gaze at monuments. But our fair city is about to see a different influx this week, as attendees arrive for the so-called...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
This headline in the Calgary Herald today made my day: "Rhetoric driving policy, says chamber". A more apt headline might be: "Rhetoric driving chamber crazy." According to the story, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce thinks the term "dirty fuel" unfairly describes Canadian tar...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Moving Beyond Oil
Everyone realizes that America is dangerously addicted to oil. What people need to know is that if crude oil is cocaine, tar sands oil from Canada is crack. It doesn't make any sense to replace one with the other --...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
How's this for an eye-catching headline? Wind, Water And Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear And Coal For Clean Energy That comes from a story published today in ScienceDaily, which opens with this unequivocal sentence: "The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global...continued→
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
The coal industry has a dream -- that one day our cars and trucks will run on liquefied coal. They tout this as a way to free America from its addiction to oil -- 60% of which we export from foreign...continued→
