JUNE 1, 2010 The West’s Wrong Turn on Natural Resources By JOSEPH STERNBERG For all that talk about a new knowledge economy, things still matter a great deal in this world. And whether it’s the steel beam holding up the floor of your office, the gasoline you put in your car or the circuitry in […]
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BP and the Union Foot on Obama’s Neck Lurita Doan Monday, May 31, 2010 Elizabeth Birnbaum, Director of Minerals Management (MMS) at the Department of the Interior, resigned over the BP spill, in a classic, sacrifice-a-pawn, let-the-heads-roll, political sacrificial lamb ploy that folks in DC have witnessed countless times. Someone had to go. Anger over
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MAY 29, 2010, 6:53 P.M. ET ‘Top Kill’ Fails to Stop Flow of Oil From Gulf Leak By MARK LONG BP PLC has abandoned its effort to plug a mile-deep oil and gas gusher in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by injecting drilling fluids after failing to stem the flow of hydrocarbons. View Full Image
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MAY 28, 2010 Obama’s Blowout Preventer In case you hadn’t heard, Ken Salazar had a reform plan . . . BP and the Coast Guard yesterday were cautiously optimistic that the “top kill” maneuver could stanch the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, and let us hope this is the beginning of the end of the
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Video of an Explanation of BP’s Top Kill Project http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwells_update24052010.htm
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Wall Street Journal MAY 17, 2010 John Kerry rearranges cap and tax—and hopes no one notices. Despite the most creative rhetoric this side of ObamaCare, voters have figured out that “cap and trade” involves artificial carbon rationing and vast new energy taxes. So the main goal of John Kerry and Joe Lieberman has been attempting
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Washington Examiner Barbara Hollingsworth: Fannie Mae owns patent on residential ‘cap and trade’ exchange By: Barbara Hollingsworth Local Opinion Editor April 20, 2010 When he wasn’t busy helping create a $127 billion mess for taxpayers to clean up, former Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines, two of his top underlings and select individuals in
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Expert Views on the Deepwater Horizon Incident and Aftermath April 30th, 2010 by Chief Gee-Oh I had the pleasure of listening in to a phone conference earlier today organized by Morgan Stanley’s oil field services’ analyst, Ole Sorer. The topic was the Deepwater Horizon disaster, including what went wrong, who is liable, and what some
The Energy Policy Morass ‘Think, Baby, Think’ BY Stephen F. Hayward April 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 30 If you think the health care debate is a tangled mess, try wading into the thickets of the energy sector, which is high on the Obama administration’s list of targets to subjugate. Few areas of national policy
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK APRIL 1, 2010 Drilling Bits Less new oil exploration than meets the eye. Fourteen months into the Obama Presidency, we are grateful for small favors. So we suppose we should cheer the White House announcement yesterday that it is allowing new offshore oil and gas drilling. But this really is a smaller
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