America’s Oil and Gas Export Delusions
The true hoax of this energy transition is the idea that the U.S. has unlimited oil and gas that is just waiting to be produced as soon as those tree-hugging liberals stop standing in the way.
Justin Mikulka
Our Methane Blindspot
Methane is getting some attention as we learn new information on the severity of the problem of methane emissions in the oil and gas industry but it remains a distant second in the world's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, despite all of the good intentions (e.
Injection Wells Will Haunt Us Forever
In 1971 Orlo Childs was speaking at the annual Underground Waste Management symposium and posed the following question about the practice of using injection wells to dispose of America’s toxic waste.
“Where will the waste reside 100 years from now?” Orlo Childs at the 1971 conference Underground Waste Management
U.S. Policy Implications of Global Peak Oil Demand
Back in the beginning of the century James Kuntsler published the book The Long Emergency which warned about societal collapse due to declining oil production combined with “climate change, resurgent diseases, water scarcity, global economic instability and warfare to cause major trouble for future generations.” Twenty years ago it was
The Grifters
“Look around the poker table; if you can’t see the sucker, you’re it.”
Zombieland
Here we go again.
“Last week, a retired oil and gas worker named Luke Shipp called out Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian for claiming that no wastewater disposal well has contaminated groundwater used by people.”
That quote is from a column in the Houston Chronicle about the ongoing problem of toxic
Learning from California As It Becomes An Orphan Petrostate
By 1910, California was producing roughly a fifth of the world’s crude oil. Today it is producing roughly a fifth of the oil consumed by the state.
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In addition to experiencing serious oil production decline, California is also a “fuel island” due to the geographical and regulatory constraints