News & Articles on Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels ares not renewable, obviously. They are listed here for organizational reasons. I don’t write about fossil fuels–as a rule. However, fossil fuels and those who promote them are not going away quietly. Thus, I felt it necessary to include the topic to distinguish articles that are not about nuclear power or renewable energy.
The Climate Aspect of Plastics (and Other Nasty Tidbits of the Cycle)
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Plastics! The 1970’s movie, “The Graduate,” talked about the business prospect and the future of plastics. Did anyone at that point in time have any idea how much our use of plastics would grow? Plastics have contributed to the convenience of our lives while also adding to a major pollution problem. Walk through a grocery store and it is incredible how many products are packaged in plastics. Not all plastics can be recycled and not all communities take all types of plastics to be recycled. As such, the trash problem grows and grows. Much of this plastic trash ends up in the marine environment and now turning into micro and nano plastics entering the food chain. But do enough people know or understand the climate aspect of the continued use of plastics?
The revolving door at public utilities commissions? It’s alive and well
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Of the 473 commissioners for whom Heern could find information on what they did after they left utility regulation, 50% of them went to work for one of the industries they regulated, or in an industry-adjacent role such as consulting. “That revolving door is definitely alive and well,” Heern told me.
The White House & Me
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Paul Gipe
I’ve been invited to the White House only once. Jimmy Carter was the only President to ever invite me. For …
Hydrogen Pipelines Studies Keep Making The Same Mistakes
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Michael Barnard
Recently a variety of studies and memes have been expressing an odd distortion of reality, supported strongly by oil and gas industry lobbying and PR groups. The claim is that gas pipelines move a lot more energy a lot more cheaply than high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission.
Methane leaks near Bakersfield homes renew concerns about idle oil wells
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John Cox
Environmentalists advocating new state restrictions on oil and gas drilling have seized upon confirmation last week that two idle wells were leaking methane near a residential area in northeast Bakersfield decades after they were improperly abandoned.
Putin’s war and global energy Security and ecological imperatives converge
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Roy Morrison
The good news, if any is to be found in the relentless slaughter of innocents, is a global convergence of security and ecological imperatives in response to Putin’s War. Cutting off Putin’s oil and gas income for his petrol state as global oil and gas prices soar also is global encouragement for accelerated development of a renewable energy transformation to escape both the influence of dictatorial petrol states like Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and others as a matter of national security and global ecological necessity.
