Tar sands said to be solution from reliance on “petro-dictators”-
Of course, this is all at the cost of another huge insult to the planet as well as the northern Rockies.
One of the things that few seem to understand is that the worst environmental degradation comes from exploiting marginal (actually submarginal) resources. Drilling in […]
Continue Reading →They might strip mine an area as large as New York state.
While oil sands does yield a lot of net energy, the […]
Continue Reading →Brian Ertz posted a story several days ago about this topic. This is my take.
In the last week we have had the President’s answer to high energy prices, drill for domestic oil, and develop oil shale deposits.
The primary economic result of this will be to enrich the oil companies even more. They don’t […]
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