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Wonder Why Gas Prices Are So High?
We all feel the pain at the pump… Here are some of the reasons why gas prices are to high.
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After nearly 18 years of legal battles, the communities in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest devastated by oil giant Chevron’s reckless pump-and-dump oil operations have scored a landmark victory. Chevron has been ordered to pay billions to clean up their widespread contamination and bring potable water and healthcare facilities to affected communities.
But instead of doing the right thing, Chevron has vowed to fight “until hell freezes over.”
U.S. icebreaking technology lacking, as ships charge toward Nome, Alaska
In an effort to bring badly needed fuel and medications to Nome, Alaska, which is trapped in an exceptionally cold and snowy winter, the U.S. military is using an icebreaker to make its way through the Bering Sea.
Ethanol Subsidies: Not Gone, Just Hidden a Little Better
In fact, ethanol subsidies are such obviously appalling policy that it’s one of the rare areas that both liberals and conservatives
agree about. In theory, anyway. But that’s never mattered. After all, lots of corn is grown in Iowa, and every four years Iowa holds the first presidential caucuses in the nation. And that has long made ethanol subsidies everyone’s favorite pander.
But guess what? At the end of last year, ethanol subsidies quietly expired and no one tried to extend them. On the campaign trail, ethanol subsidies became invisible….
Coastal villages in Nigeria protest as crude oil washes ashore
Shell denies that any of the oil is from its 200,000 barrel per day Bonga facility, 120 km offshore and accounting for 10 percent of monthly oil flows, which was shut down by the spill on Dec. 20.
A woman walks past some of the hundreds of dead fish believed to have been killed as a result of the recent oil spill off the coast of Nigeria.George Esiri / EPA
Shell says five ships were used to disperse and contain the spill and that this kept any oil from washing ashore.
But local villagers, as well as environmental and rights groups, dispute this account, saying the oil is still at large, coating parts of the coast, killing fish and sparking protests.
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The (program) has been the most effective policy in driving economic and job growth in the past two years,” said Rhone Resch, CEO of SEIA, during a conference call Wednesday. “As we continue to slog through a sluggish economy, the tax equity market remains in a much smaller capacity than where it was in 2007.
Solar Industry Fights For Subsidies With Jobs and Clean Energy Pitch
A U.S. solar industry trade group is lobbing a new offensive to save a popular federal incentive program by releasing a report Wednesday to show that an one-year extension of the program could create 37,400 more jobs and add nearly 500 megawatts in 2012.
A Smarter Way to Occupy Wall Street
the same middle-class people who are marching on Wall Street are the same people who are funding Wall Street’s oversized paychecks. If change is what they want, they need to educate themselves on how they’re actually feeding the Wall Street beast
AFP: UN chief calls for universal access to energy
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who himself studied by candlelight as a child, pleaded on Monday for universal access to clean energy, a privilege denied to more than half the world population.
“We need an energy revolution,” Ban said at an energy conference in Oslo.
“We need energy not only to be universal, we need it to be clean and sustainable as well,” he added.
Improving access to energy was key to addressing global challenges like poverty, climate change, water scarcity, lacking health care and food shortages, Ban said.
About 1.3 billion of the world’s seven billion people have no access to energy, while another 2.7 billion are without clean cooking facilities, using coal and wood for domestic tasks, according to a study published Monday by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Jobs and energy prices will ultimately push the Obama administration to approve the controversial Keystone pipeline, analysts say, despite the protests and environmental concerns over expanding production from Canada’s oil sands. Stretching 1,600 miles from Alberta, Canada, to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast, the Keystone pipeline project would boost U.S. consumption from the Canadian oil sands, now more than 1 million barrels a day, by about 50%.
Keystone pipeline: Why the oil sands conduit will get built
Actress Daryl Hannah protests the Keystone pipeline this summer. But jobs, money and oil will likely win out over environmental concerns as a decision on the controversial pipeline looms.
Kansas gets wind farm, BP gets tax credit -- just in time
Kansas is to wind as Saudi Arabia is to oil. So it makes sense that energy conglomerate BP recently announced plans to build an $800-million, 262-turbine wind farm in the southern part of the state.
The project seems like a big deal — especially considering the several hundred jobs the wind farm will bring — but it might be one of the last big stories we’ll hear about wind energy for a while
