DRIESSEN: Facts, not fears, should govern fracking Misleading claims about shale gas development do not serve the public interest By Paul Driessen – The Washington Times Friday, March 23, 2012 Illustration: Fracking protest by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times It’s been called a “game changer” for good reason. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or
April 4, 2012, 7:00 p.m. ET So much for an ‘all of the above’ energy strategy. For three years the Environmental Protection Agency has imposed a de facto ban on new coal-fired power while doing everything it can to harm existing coal plants. But for once there’s something good to say about the latest EPA
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A carbon tax by any other name . . . Robert Bryce Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is the author of Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future. His report on renewable mandates can be found at www.manhattan-institute.org/html/eper_10.htm.
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March 14, 2012 Big Oil, Bigger Taxes The industry sends more money to Washington than to shareholders. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest oil and gas company, says that in the five years prior to 2010 it paid about $59 billion in total U.S. taxes, while it earned . . . $40.5
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What North Dakota Could Teach California March 11, 2012, While one plays host to a modern-day Gold Rush, the other shuns evil fossil fuels and wallows in debt. By STEPHEN MOORE Williston, N.D. In his speech last week responding to high gas prices, President Barack Obama insisted that “we can’t just drill our way out
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February 23, 2012 A U-Turn Strategy for the GOP By Herbert E. Meyer Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He is the author of several books including Hard Thinking, How to Analyze Information, and The
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FEBRUARY 8, 2012 By RUSSELL GOLD Russell Gold/The Wall Street JournalThe Fleetwood Homes factory in Nampa, Idaho, is building more manufactured homes for oil-field workers. NAMPA, Idaho—The staccato of nail guns echoes across a cavernous building here as workers piece together manufactured houses with easy-to-clean linoleum floors and rugged interiors for muddy oil-field workers. There
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February 6, 2012 By Edwin Meese III Edwin “Ed” Meese III (born December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California) served as the seventy-fifth Attorney General of the United States (1985-1988). 2/6/2012 As the years pass, Ronald Reagan’s stature grows. All sorts of people now quote him to support their agendas. Last year, California Sen. Barbara Boxer
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