Shell announces shift to renewable energy, peak oil production in 2019
Royal Dutch Shell is accelerating its drive to lower carbon emissions while delivering value for shareholders… supposedly
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Phillips 66 wants SLO County to ignore oil train explosions in deciding on refinery expansion
What’s the scope of a local planning commission authority? When that commission is considering construction project approval at an oil refinery to enable five oil trains (each a mile long) arrive per week at that refinery, does the local planning commission have the authority to consider issues outside on-site safety and…
Environmental groups claim victory over delaying oil and gas lease auction
Today, the Obama Administration delayed an oil and gas lease sale that was inconveniently scheduled for December 10, 2015, or right in the middle of the Paris COP climate talks. Activist groups, like 350.org, are claiming this as a “win” because the action was taken after pressure from those groups. Having…
Shell Oil pulls out of Arctic Sea oil drilling, citing bad economics rather than kayaktivists
This summer Royal Dutch Shell worked in the Chukchi Sea to drill for oil, in the open ocean above the arctic circle. That’s a recipe for disaster, which Shell itself admitted would, if oil drilling were fully developed there, cause a large number of large oil spills in a terrain which…
Obama calls for icebreakers for oil exploration while raising climate change alarm
This week Pres. Obama is visiting Alaska ostensibly to push for Climate Change awareness as part of his Administration’s push on mitigating the threat with new policies like the recently announced Clean Energy Plan. While the Obama Administration has enacted a bunch of great ideas for renewable energy, increased fuel…
China market collapse driving down oil prices, hurting oil producing countries
The current stock market turmoil – a major stock price collapse in China and other countries – may be (partly) caused by the glut of oil causing low crude oil prices. What’s happening is a market correction a.k.a. “global selloff” of stocks a.k.a. slumping stock prices in stock markets…
The global slump in oil prices making Alberta’s life hard
Alberta’s sole customer for crude oil is the U.S.A. For various reasons, Canada’s crude oil sales have plummeted, causing lots of economic hardship.
Another oil bomb train – why are they shipping crude oil by train? – Symptoms of fossil fuel addiction
Mike Burley, THONLINE Another week another bomb train, it seems. Last week it was West Virginia, this week Galena Illinois. This time a 105 car train, 103 of which were crude oil tankers, derailed in a remote section of Illinois just off the Mississippi River. According to a news…
Falling oil prices could doom fracking (yay!) and electric vehicle adoption (booo!) leaving the Climate in the lurch
At the just-concluded OPEC meeting, the oil-powers-that-be decided to maintain OPEC’s production level of 30 million barrels per day, despite oil price declines over the last year. For the people who remain stuck on fossil oil as The Transportation Fuel, this is a good thing because it means gasoline prices…
California’s Monterey Shale not a fracking oil bonanza after all, says Energy Information Administration
California’s Monterey Shale is supposed to revolutionize oil resources in the United States, with perhaps 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil – recoverable, that is, through using the acidizing form of fracking. That much oil is pretty darn significant, that is if one wants to stay wedded to fossil fuels. …
Why is the switch to electric cars from gasoline cars taking so long?
If we can switch from caffeinated to decaffeinated coffee at the drop of a hat, why is it so hard to switch away from gasoline fuel for cars to something else? We know that gasoline and all the other fossil fuels cause a wide range of problems, and that it’s…
How does it feel knowing buying gasoline supports Middle East Shiekdoms?
Many people are (rightfully) upset about the Middle Eastern countries and their supposed hatred of the United States. I kind of think that they’re rightfully upset at decades of Western (America and Europe) meddling in Middle East politics, manipulating the game to preserve access to Oil. And that this meddling…
Before blaming “them” for oil fueled GREED, look to your own fossil fuel consumption
I found this picture, clearly taken above the Alberta Tar Sands, posted on Google+ and the comments below it talked about GREED and how GREED is destroying the planet and RESOURCE WAR’s. I tend to agree with the sentiment, but think we all have to be honest about this picture.…
Thousands of fracktivists rally in Sacramento for fracking ban in California
On Saturday, the largest anti-fracking protest in California’s history took place in Sacramento. Organizers called on California Gov. Jerry Brown to ban fracking in California. The rally, which was organized by Californians Against Fracking and a long list of partner organizations, drew thousands of people who came from all over…
State Dept report on Keystone XL admits stopping the pipeline won’t matter, opens door to approval
The long-awaited environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL pipeline seems to clear the way for the approval of that controversial project, according to a report by the New York Times. Why? It’s what I’ve written recently. The oil companies are intent on bringing oil from the Alberta Tar…
Phillips 66 wants SLO County to ignore oil train explosions in deciding on refinery expansion
What’s the scope of a local planning commission authority? When that commission is considering construction project approval at an oil refinery to enable five oil trains (each a mile long) arrive per week at that refinery, does the local planning commission have the authority to consider issues outside on-site safety and…
Environmental groups claim victory over delaying oil and gas lease auction
Today, the Obama Administration delayed an oil and gas lease sale that was inconveniently scheduled for December 10, 2015, or right in the middle of the Paris COP climate talks. Activist groups, like 350.org, are claiming this as a “win” because the action was taken after pressure from those groups. Having…
Shell Oil pulls out of Arctic Sea oil drilling, citing bad economics rather than kayaktivists
This summer Royal Dutch Shell worked in the Chukchi Sea to drill for oil, in the open ocean above the arctic circle. That’s a recipe for disaster, which Shell itself admitted would, if oil drilling were fully developed there, cause a large number of large oil spills in a terrain which…
Obama calls for icebreakers for oil exploration while raising climate change alarm
This week Pres. Obama is visiting Alaska ostensibly to push for Climate Change awareness as part of his Administration’s push on mitigating the threat with new policies like the recently announced Clean Energy Plan. While the Obama Administration has enacted a bunch of great ideas for renewable energy, increased fuel…
China market collapse driving down oil prices, hurting oil producing countries
The current stock market turmoil – a major stock price collapse in China and other countries – may be (partly) caused by the glut of oil causing low crude oil prices. What’s happening is a market correction a.k.a. “global selloff” of stocks a.k.a. slumping stock prices in stock markets…
The global slump in oil prices making Alberta’s life hard
Alberta’s sole customer for crude oil is the U.S.A. For various reasons, Canada’s crude oil sales have plummeted, causing lots of economic hardship.
Another oil bomb train – why are they shipping crude oil by train? – Symptoms of fossil fuel addiction
Mike Burley, THONLINE Another week another bomb train, it seems. Last week it was West Virginia, this week Galena Illinois. This time a 105 car train, 103 of which were crude oil tankers, derailed in a remote section of Illinois just off the Mississippi River. According to a news…
Falling oil prices could doom fracking (yay!) and electric vehicle adoption (booo!) leaving the Climate in the lurch
At the just-concluded OPEC meeting, the oil-powers-that-be decided to maintain OPEC’s production level of 30 million barrels per day, despite oil price declines over the last year. For the people who remain stuck on fossil oil as The Transportation Fuel, this is a good thing because it means gasoline prices…
California’s Monterey Shale not a fracking oil bonanza after all, says Energy Information Administration
California’s Monterey Shale is supposed to revolutionize oil resources in the United States, with perhaps 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil – recoverable, that is, through using the acidizing form of fracking. That much oil is pretty darn significant, that is if one wants to stay wedded to fossil fuels. …
Why is the switch to electric cars from gasoline cars taking so long?
If we can switch from caffeinated to decaffeinated coffee at the drop of a hat, why is it so hard to switch away from gasoline fuel for cars to something else? We know that gasoline and all the other fossil fuels cause a wide range of problems, and that it’s…
How does it feel knowing buying gasoline supports Middle East Shiekdoms?
Many people are (rightfully) upset about the Middle Eastern countries and their supposed hatred of the United States. I kind of think that they’re rightfully upset at decades of Western (America and Europe) meddling in Middle East politics, manipulating the game to preserve access to Oil. And that this meddling…
Before blaming “them” for oil fueled GREED, look to your own fossil fuel consumption
I found this picture, clearly taken above the Alberta Tar Sands, posted on Google+ and the comments below it talked about GREED and how GREED is destroying the planet and RESOURCE WAR’s. I tend to agree with the sentiment, but think we all have to be honest about this picture.…
Thousands of fracktivists rally in Sacramento for fracking ban in California
On Saturday, the largest anti-fracking protest in California’s history took place in Sacramento. Organizers called on California Gov. Jerry Brown to ban fracking in California. The rally, which was organized by Californians Against Fracking and a long list of partner organizations, drew thousands of people who came from all over…
State Dept report on Keystone XL admits stopping the pipeline won’t matter, opens door to approval
The long-awaited environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL pipeline seems to clear the way for the approval of that controversial project, according to a report by the New York Times. Why? It’s what I’ve written recently. The oil companies are intent on bringing oil from the Alberta Tar…
