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Category Archives: Fossil Fuels
Academics: Aliens may threaten to destroy Earth
Columnist Robin Beres asks, if aliens were coming to judge us for fossil fuel use, wouldn’t they have passed sentence several hundred years ago for, say, coal. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power
Tagged Al Gore, Alien Energy Shields, Climate Change, Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Habibullo Abdussamatov, Lawrence Solomon
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Lawrence Solomon: Tyranny of the north
(August 19, 2011) Venezuela’s dictator, Hugo Chavez, was in the news this week for brashly announcing an expropriation of the mineral rights of the citizens of his country. We don’t seize private property that way in our democracy. We seize it silently and in plain sight, as seen in the province of Alberta, which so deftly passed stealth legislation two years ago that most Albertans are only now discovering the government’s audacious takeover of their property rights. Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Power Industry, Climate Change, Coal, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Tar Sands
Tagged Alberta, carbon dioxide, centralization, Climate Change, CSS, Global Warming, Hugo Chavez, Lawrence Solomon, oil sands, sequestration, tar sands, transmission lines
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Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil
(July 5, 2011) Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to vow and fail to wean the United States off its dependency on Middle Eastern oil. Barack Obama will be the last. The United States today has the wherewithal to become independent in energy. Once Obama goes, it will also have the will. Continue reading
The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Renewables
Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, Renewable Energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms
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Israeli Oil: Black Gold in the Holy Land
(June 18, 2011) On Tuesday, June 14, Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. announced it had requested a petroleum exploration permit to develop large shale oil deposits in the Shfela Basin, 30 miles west of Jerusalem. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Shale Gas, Shale Oil
Tagged Energy Probe, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Oil, OPEC, Sarah Siskind, saudi arabia, Shale Oil
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Lawrence Solomon: Israeli oil could bust the OPEC cartel
(June 13, 2011) The old energy order in the Middle East is crumbling and a new energy order is emerging to give the West some spine. In this new order, Israel is a major player. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil, Oil
Tagged Harold Vinegar, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, POEC, shale
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Oilsands greenhouse gas emissions up in 2009
(June 6, 2011) New calculation; Substantial rise in pollution: report… Aldyen Donnelly responds. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Oil redeems Israel
(June 6, 2011) A huge strike will bring back a world bought by oil interests.
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil
Tagged Human Rights Commission, Israel, Oil, oil prices, OPEC, Palestine Liberation Organization, United Nations, Yasser Arafat, Zionism
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