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Romney Vows Immediate Approval of Keystone XL on First Day in White House
Mitt Romney is vowing to approve TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline on his first day on the job if elected U.S. president in November. Continue reading
Congressional hearing in Denver tackles fracking
By Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press
DENVER – Western state officials took turns bashing the federal government Wednesday at a congressional field hearing on proposed nationwide drilling rules on hydraulic fracturing. Continue reading
TransCanada Submits Keystone Pipeline Reroute Plan
By EDWARD WELSCH
CALGARY, Alberta—TransCanada Corp. TRP -0.58% submitted a reroute of its Keystone XL oil pipeline to the Nebraska state government Wednesday, moving a step closer to reviving the project after it was rejected by the U.S. government earlier this year. Continue reading
Keystone XL Pipeline: a job-creating win for America
By Former Rep. J.C. Watts, Jr.
President Obama recently got a look at what his failed energy policies are doing to America and I hope he fully appreciates that he does have the power to change things for the better. Continue reading
King Dollar Will Cut Oil Prices
By: Larry Kudlow – CNBC Anchor
No matter how much President Obama protests, the simple fact is that he continues to oppose and mock and disparage oil and gas drilling. He is a prisoner of the environmental left, and he remains on the wrong side of energy history. Continue reading
GOP Leaders Optimistic on Energy, Jobs After Meeting With Obama
By Siobhan Hughes
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Wednesday sounded an unusually optimistic note after meeting with President Barack Obama, saying they came away feeling they could find common ground on energy and jobs policies. Continue reading
Boehner Vents Anger Over Record High Gas Prices
Before ending his news conference this morning at the Capitol, House Speaker John Boehner vented his frustrations over record gasoline prices, calling on the president to present his own written proposal for an energy plan and blaming “radical environmentalists” for standing in the way of a national energy policy. Continue reading
Texas becomes battlefield in Keystone XL pipeline fight
Dave Montgomery The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
AUSTIN — The politically volatile Keystone XL pipeline is becoming embroiled in a widening controversy in Texas Continue reading
Rep. Murphy: US isn’t keeping up with the world on energy
VARNEY: Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Tim Murphy with me now.
Congressman, you heard what the president’s got to say, that we’re producing more oil now than we have in at any time in the last eight years and he wants to expand domestic production even more. Are you buying that? Continue reading
Merritt joins Texas Republican Leadership in calling on President Obama to immediately approve Keystone Pipeline
Tommy Merritt joined Republicans from all across the State of Texas in demanding that the President immediately allow plans for the construction of the Keystone Pipeline. Continue reading
Texans Are Baffled by the Keystone Decision
China will get the oil from Canada that could have come to the U.S.
By RICK PERRY
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in Beijing recently signing an agreement and touting his country’s growing energy partnership with China. Continue reading
US bans new mining claims near Grand Canyon
By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is banning new hard rock mining on more than a million acres near the Grand Canyon, an area known to be rich in high-grade uranium ore reserves.
The decision, announced Monday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, hands a victory to environmental groups and some Democratic lawmakers who had worked for years to limit mining near the national park, one of the nation’s most popular tourist destinations.
“When families travel to see the Grand Canyon, they have a right to expect that the only glow they will see will come from the sun setting over the rim of this natural wonder, and not from the radioactive contamination that comes from uranium mining,” said Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, the senior Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee.
But congressional Republicans and industry groups opposed it, arguing that Salazar was eliminating hundreds of jobs and depriving the country of a critically important energy source. The area near the Grand Canyon contains as much as 40 percent of the nation’s known uranium resources, worth tens of billions of dollars.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the ban a “devastating blow to job creation in northern Arizona.”
McCain said the ban was “fueled by an emotional public relations campaign pitting the public’s love for the Grand Canyon against a modern form of low-impact mining that occurs many miles from the canyon walls.”
During a speech at the National Geographic Society, Salazar said he was “at peace” with the decision, one of the most high-profile actions of his three-year tenure at Interior. Salazar twice had imposed temporary bans on mining claims.
“A withdrawal is the right approach for this priceless American landscape,” Salazar said. “People from all over the country and around the world come to visit the Grand Canyon. Numerous American Indian tribes regard this magnificent icon as a sacred place, and millions of people in the Colorado River Basin depend on the river for drinking water (and) irrigation.”
The decision imposes a 20-year ban on new mining claims on federal land near the Grand Canyon. About 3,000 mining claims already staked in the area will not be affected, although officials expect fewer than a dozen mines to be developed under existing claims.
While uranium remains an important part of a comprehensive energy strategy, Salazar said, the Grand Canyon is a national treasure that must be protected. Salazar called the ban “a responsible path that makes sense for this and future generations.”
Uranium is used in nuclear power plants, which supplies about 20 percent of the nation’s electricity.
The national park attracts more than 4 million visitors a year and generates an estimated $3.5 billion in economic activity. About 26 million Americans in four states, including the cities of Phoenix and Los Angeles, rely on the Colorado River for clean drinking water.
Conservation groups called the 20-year ban a crucial protection for an American icon. Uranium reserves near the Grand Canyon pose a real and present threat to Grand Canyon National Park and its water supply, said Taylor McKinnon, public lands campaigns director at the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity.
McKinnon and other environmentalists disputed claims by the mining industry and some Republican members of Congress that the ban would hurt the state’s economy and the nation’s energy independence.
“The real economic engine in northern Arizona is not uranium mining. It’s tourism,” McKinnon said. “To jeopardize our economic engine with more toxic uranium mining is unacceptable.”
GOP lawmakers lambasted the ban, calling it an overreach that jeopardizes jobs for no proven reason. They cited a study showing that even a severe mining accident would increase uranium levels in the Colorado River by an amount undetectable over levels normally carried by the river from erosion of geologic deposits.
“It is unconscionable that the administration has yet again caved to political pressure from radical special interest groups rather than standing up for the American people,” said Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah. “Banning access to the most uranium-rich land in the United States will be overwhelmingly detrimental to both jobs in Utah and Arizona and our nation’s domestic energy security.”
Using modern techniques, mining does not affect drinking water from the Colorado River, McCain said.
The Bureau of Land Management said the 20-year ban on new mining claims would reduce overall uranium production by about 6 percent of current U.S. demand.
State, local and federal governments are expected to lose an estimated $16.6 million in annual tax revenue, and 465 jobs would not materialize.
The Bush administration had opened up land near the canyon to new mining claims. Salazar reversed the Bush policy in 2009 and called for a two-year moratorium on new mining claims around the canyon. He followed up with a six-month extension last year.
Supporters of the ban say any increase in mining jobs is not worth risks to the Colorado River, lands considered sacred by American Indian tribes or wildlife habitat. A mining mishap also could be disastrous for tourism.
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Associated Press writer Felicia Fonseca in Flagstaff, Ariz., contributed to this report.
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Jobs report prompts calls for drilling, green energy support
By Ben Geman
When it comes to energy, Friday’s hopeful new data on job creation is prompting lawmakers and interest groups to call for . . . what they were calling for before the new report.
House Republican leaders greeted the hiring data with calls for the Senate to approve a suite of House-passed bills, including measures to require a major expansion of offshore oil-and-gas leasing and block several EPA regulations.
“President Obama owes it to every small business, and to the millions of Americans still looking for work, to urge Senate Democrats to take action on these common-sense jobs bills as soon as possible,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a statement following news that the economy added 200,000 jobs in December.
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), author of the drilling bills, struck a similar note in touting the legislation Friday. “It is good news that more jobs were added to the economy last month, however millions of Americans remain unemployed and there is still much more that needs to be done to revive our sluggish economy,” he said in a statement.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) reiterated his call for federal approval of a major proposed pipeline to bring Canadian oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries. “[N]o discussion of job-creation would be complete without acknowledging the tremendous jobs and energy security benefits that would come from approval and construction of the Keystone XL pipeline,” he said in a statement.
Elsewhere, the BlueGreen Alliance, which is a coalition of labor unions and environmentalists, called on Congress to “keep this momentum going” on jobs by bolstering federal support for green energy and passing a sweeping transportation bill.
Green energy advocates are seeking action to renew a stimulus-law grant program for renewable power projects, extension of clean energy tax credits and other policies.
“Winning economic strategies focused on the industries of the future and the $5 trillion clean-tech industry should be America’s focus in 2012. To do that, Congress must move forward with smart policies and strategic investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced vehicle technologies, the rebuilding of our transportation, energy and communications infrastructure, and the production of cleaner, safer chemicals,” said David Foster, the group’s executive director.
“One easy first step for Congress would be swift passage of a long-term reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Act. Through action like this, we can recreate the millions of jobs lost in the Great Recession and set America on the path to economic prosperity in the 21st century global economy,” he said.
Obama, Congress Begin 2012 In Oil Pipeline Dispute
by The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will force the White House to make a politically risky choice between two key Democratic constituencies.
Some unions say the Keystone XL pipeline would create thousands of jobs. Environmentalists fear it could lead to an oil spill disaster.
A law Obama signed just before Christmas that temporarily extended the payroll tax cut included a Republican-written provision compelling him to make a speedy decision on whether to build the pipeline. The administration is warning it would rather say no than rush a decision in an election year.
It’s a dicey proposition for Obama, who enjoyed strong support from both organized labor and environmentalists in his winning 2008 campaign for the White House.
Environmental advocates, already disappointed with his failure to achieve climate change legislation and the administration’s decision to delay new smog standards, have made it clear that approval of the pipeline would dampen their enthusiasm for Obama in the upcoming November election.
Some liberal donors even threatened to cut off funds to Obama’s re-election campaign to protest the project, which opponents say would transport “dirty oil” that requires huge amounts of energy to extract.
If he rejects the pipeline, Obama risks losing support from organized labor, a key part of the Democratic base, for thwarting thousands of jobs.
Obama appeared to have skirted what some dubbed the “Keystone conundrum” in November when the State Department announced it was postponing a decision on the pipeline until after this year’s election. Officials said they needed extra time to study routes that avoid an environmentally sensitive area of Nebraska that supplies water to eight states.
The affected area stretches just 65 miles through the Sandhills region of northern Nebraska, but the concerns were serious enough that the state’s governor and senators opposed the project until the pipeline was moved.
Republican Gov. Dave Heineman, who opposed the initial route, says he supports efforts to accelerate the project, noting that provisions in the payroll tax bill allow the project developer to find a new route avoiding the Sandhills.
The new route would have to be approved by Nebraska environmental officials and the State Department, which has authority because the pipeline would cross an international border.
The pipeline would carry oil from tar sands in western Canada to refineries in Texas, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. The project’s developer, Calgary-based TransCanada, says the pipeline could create as many as 20,000 jobs, a figure opponents say is inflated. A State Department report last summer said the pipeline would create up to 6,000 jobs during construction.
The payroll tax cut law gives the Obama administration 60 days to decide whether to allow construction of the pipeline.
An “arbitrary deadline” for the permit decision would compromise the process, short-circuiting time needed to conduct required environmental reviews and preventing the issuance of a permit, the State Department warned in a written statement on Dec. 12. Obama administration officials confirmed that view after the payroll tax bill was approved.
Republicans call the threat little more than an excuse that allows Obama to placate environmental groups while not rejecting the pipeline outright.
“The only thing arbitrary about this decision is the decision by the president to say, ‘Well, let’s wait until after the next election,’ ” said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Boehner and other Republicans say the pipeline would help Obama achieve his top priority — creating jobs — without costing a dime of taxpayer money. They hope to portray Obama’s reluctance to approve the pipeline as a sign he favors environmentalists over jobs.
Russ Girling, TransCanada’s president and chief executive, said his company would do whatever is necessary to make sure the project is approved.
“We’ve had more than enough surprises on this,” said TransCanada spokesman Shawn Howard.
In Nebraska, where the pipeline faces strong resistance, state officials are awaiting an environmental study that will determine a new route. Officials have said the review will take six to nine months.
Some landowners in the Sandhills celebrated the decision to reroute the project, but the pipeline’s strongest opponents say they still have concerns about the prospect of the government using its power of eminent domain to seize land, as well as liability issues in case of a spill.
“Republicans have bullied their way to get a reckless rider attached to a bill that was supposed to be about helping middle-class families,” said Jane Kleeb, executive director of the group Bold Nebraska, which opposes the pipeline.
With the bill signed into law, Obama “must do the right thing for our land, water and families’ health by denying the pipeline permit,” Kleeb said.
Project supporters say U.S. rejection of the pipeline would not stop it from being built. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said TransCanada could pursue an alternative route through Canada to the West Coast, where oil could be shipped to China and other Asian markets.
“Canada is going to develop this no matter what, and that oil is either going to come to the United States or it’s going to go to a place like China. We want it here,” said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Opponents call the West Coast option farfetched, noting that Canadian regulators have announced a one-year delay for a similar project that would carry tar sands oil to British Columbia, on Canada’s western coast.
Native groups strongly oppose both the Keystone XL and the Northern Gateway pipeline proposed by TransCanada rival Enbridge. Canada’s First Nations have constitutionally protected treaty rights and unsettled land claims that could allow them to block or significantly delay both pipelines.
Unions are watching closely. Unemployment in construction is far higher than other industries, with more than 1.1 million construction workers jobless, said Brent Bookers, director of construction at the Laborers’ International Union of North America.
“For many members of the Laborers, this project is not just a pipeline, it is a lifeline,” Bookers said, adding, “Too many hard-working Americans are out of work, and the Keystone XL pipeline will change that dire situation for thousands of them.”
Roger Toussaint, international vice president of the Transport Workers Union, opposes the pipeline.
“The dangers of the pipeline are compelling, and no one should believe the claims of either the Republican leadership or the energy companies, with respect to the project being shovel ready or with respect to the number of jobs it’s going to produce,” he said.
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Associated Press writer Grant Schulte in Lincoln, Neb., contributed to this report.
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What’s key to the 2012 race
The Washington Post asked Republicans who ran or considered running for president this year what the remaining contenders should focus on heading into the Iowa caucuses.
Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi:
If the 2012 election is about President Barack Obama’s policies and the negative results of those policies, he won’t be re-elected; so if I were campaigning, I’d talk about how his policies have made economic growth and job creation harder.
Republicans and independents want a straightforward, accurate discussion of Obama’s proposals for the largest tax increase in history, which falls mostly on job creators; his unprecedented explosion of the federal debt, primarily caused by his skyrocketing government spending; creation of a government-run health-care system that will increase the cost of both health care and health insurance; an energy policy that would drive up energy costs so Americans will use less of it; and excessively expensive and onerous regulation.
Those Obama policies will elect a new Republican president because they make it harder to create jobs and stimulate growth.
The plain-spoken truth about issues such as controlling spending on entitlements and promoting economic growth and deficit reduction through tax reform will pay off in the primaries and in November. Voters are sick of happy talk and cheap attacks. They’re ready for problem-solving, and they know it requires tough decisions.
Finally, I’d attack Obama’s policies and offer solutions instead of attacking primary opponents. As conservative as I am, remember that the middle will decide the election in November, and the center agrees with us on the critical issues.
Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska, Republican nominee for vice president in 2008:
Given the concerns I have for some of the Republican field’s focus thus far, I must implore the candidates to do something that sounds self-promoting, but whatever. Candidates, please turn to Chapter Three of “Going Rogue” and read what it takes for our country to step toward energy independence. Note the lesson I share in the same chapter about taking on the “elite,” the crony capitalists and the permanent political establishment to get a job done.
Do you really realize what is at stake? What is at stake is our republic. The gravity of today’s situation is real. We count on you to lead our nation on the right path. Please let us know you realize this. Understand how the left’s terrifyingly naive assault on U.S. industry exposes us to the mercy of foreign regimes whose prime objective is, at worst, our permanent demise and, at best, is stripping away our freedom. God has blessed America with ingenuity, natural resources and the strength of our workforce. Let’s use them. Tell voters that you understand this. Talk about this on the campaign trail. And quit gripin’ and moaning about “inside baseball” partisan machinations and maneuvering. We have other things to worry about. Stay strong. Focus on defending our republic and how we’ll re-industrialize our most exceptional nation in order to defeat the incumbent and win for America.
Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana; author of “Keeping the Republic”:
One hopes in 2012 for a campaign that levels with the American people about the brute, mathematically certain dangers of our indebtedness and that trusts them enough to present a program of change, specific and sufficiently bold to restore the promise of upward mobility for all.
The advocates of change should stress our commonality, never our divisions. Every American, regardless of category, will be harmed if we continue following Europe into debt disaster. Every American, regardless of ideology, has a vital stake in a private economy that grows far faster than current policies permit and thus provides opportunity to each individual and revenue to fund whatever level of public activity we decide is appropriate.
Tax reform, domestic energy production and a regulatory pause must be advocated as indispensable for poor people, unemployed people and, especially, young people. All close calls must be made in favor of private growth. Today’s blind, anti-growth zealotry must be contested as the cruel, pro-poverty policy it is. Prospective reforms to save the safety net must be advanced with aggressive confidence. With survival literally at stake, and broad consensus required to enable major changes, arguments about secondary issues should be muted.
The absence of an alternative world currency and investment havens has given this ever-fortunate nation a precious, maybe final, chance. Those who would lead us after 2012 should campaign to govern, not merely to win.
Herman Cain, former chief executive officer of Godfather’s Pizza:
This year is the time to get bold. Bold tax reform must be on the lips of every politician, the media and every voter. Americans have been victimized by a tax code that has corrupted our free-market economy by doling out favors, picking winners and losers, and dividing our nation with class warfare. Likewise, they have been victimized by the idea that we can spend our way to prosperity.
The bold solution is my 9-9-9 plan. It’s simple: a 9 percent business flat tax; a 9 percent individual flat tax; and a 9 percent national sales tax. An official who served in the Reagan Treasury Department said that, in addition to being simple, 9-9-9 is “fair, efficient, neutral and transparent.” My plan allows Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money and to trust the government to be good stewards of the money it takes.
We also need a bold energy policy. America has an abundance of natural gas and oil that is trapped — not by soil and rock but by excessive regulation and politicians too timid to take on the environmentalists’ attack on energy independence and prosperity. Remove these shackles, and the United States could become the world’s top energy producer.
Read more: http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2012-01-01/whats-key-2012-race#.TwH6pUpSBQI
FT Commodities News
- Sugar turns sour after supply surplusPrices rocketed to a 31-year high in February 2011 and encouraged farmers to produce more, pushing prices below key 20 cents per pound
- Iran nuclear talks fail to make progressFresh meeting holds out hope of a possible deal but no sign in Baghdad that negotiatiors had managed to bridge any differences
- Oil and metals rise after volatilityCommodities rebound shaking off some of the recent pessimism, but investors remain wary in the wake of weak economic data from Europe and China
- Qinetiq to supply Shell fracking monitorsDefence contractor moves further away from core business as it agrees to supply Shell with monitoring equipment used in shale gas extraction
- Shale gas boom helps slash US emissionsUS energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide fell by 450m tonnes over the past five years – the largest drop among all countries surveyed
- Saudi Arabia is getting the job doneDespite earlier scepticism among some analysts, Riyadh’s wall of oil is hitting the markets, having pumped 10m b/d in April – the highest in 30 years
- Copper ETF plan would ‘wreak havoc’US manufacturers attack planned JPMorgan fund backed by physical copper, arguing it would ‘grossly and artificially inflate prices’
- Cotton traders probed on squeezeUS commodities regulator investigates volatile trading period that led to hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for several trading houses
- Oil and commodities fall on Greek fearsInvestors worry about end of the ‘commodities supercycle’ as sovereign debt and Chinese growth worries mount
- Singapore’s low taxes lure TrafiguraCommodities trading house is to move legal headquarters from Geneva, in a boost for city state as it fends off competition from other financial centres
Consumer Energy Alliance
- CEA Warns Against Costly Fuel Program in OregonCEA Warns Against Costly Fuel Program in Oregon WASHINGTON – At Governor Kitzhaber’s direction, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has issued a draft rule for beginning implementation of a state low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) program, calling it a “Clean Fuels Program.” The program closely mirrors other LCFS proposals that have been studi […]
- CEA Welcomes Inquiry of Five-Year Offshore Development Plan and Future NeedsCEA Welcomes Inquiry of Five-Year Offshore Development Plan and Future Needs CEA supports congressional efforts to understand future impacts of Obama Administration’s draft five year plan HOUSTON, TX: Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) strongly supports today’s House Committee on Natural Resources’s hearing highlighting the Obama Administration’s draft fiv […]
- May 2012 NewsletterMay 2012 CEA Newsletter Issue 62 Practical Policies and Sensible Solutions Recently, Consumer Energy Alliance has been hard at work, educating consumers and policymakers of the importance of our national energy policy and urging voters and candidates alike to prioritize energy as part of the debate leading up to the elections in November. And, we’ve been th […]
- CEA Urges Interior to Not List Dunes Sagebrush LizardCEA Urges Interior to Not List Dunes Sagebrush Lizard: CEA Submits Over 13,000 Comments Highlighting Concern for Energy Development HOUSTON, TX: Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) submitted over 13,000 public comments on Friday from its U.S. consumer-advocates to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that urge the agency not to list the dunes sagebrush lizard as ei […]
- Consumer Energy Alliance Welcomes Keystone XL Permit, Pledges SupportHOUSTON, TX- Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) applauds TransCanada’s re-submission of its presidential permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline. The action is a critical step for a project that is integral in securing reliable energy supplies for the benefit of the U.S. economy, consumers and our nation’s energy security, while providing thousands of j […]
- Hurdles to Offshore Energy RemainAs tens of thousands of energy professionals descend upon Houston this week for the 2012 Offshore Technology Conference, we are reminded just how far technology has come in such a short time. In the two years since the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, both the private sector and federal regulators have advanced new technologies and practices that [...]
- Consumer Energy Alliance Welcomes Newest Affiliate Member, Mississippi Energy Institute
- CEA Commends New Hampshire Senate Passage of HB 1487CEA Commends New Hampshire Senate Passage of HB 1487 Bill will prohibit funding for costly low carbon fuel standards without legislative due process WASHINGTON – Earlier today, the New Hampshire Senate passed HB 1487, an act that will prohibit the State from funding participation in any national, state or regional low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) withou […]
- Consumer Energy Alliance Welcomes Newest Affiliate Member, Chemistry Industry Council of Illinois
- The uncertain state of regulationThe uncertain state of regulation Last week, we learned about plans for a new set of regulations covering natural gas production from hydraulic fracturing. And this week, the Interior Department has said that those forthcoming rules are still being defined and it’s unclear when they will be released. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The [...]
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ANGA.US
- ANGA Comments on Bureau of Land Management Hydraulic Fracturing Rule Following is a statement by Tom Amontree, executive vice president for America's Natural Gas Alliance, on the Bureau of Land Management proposal to regulate hydraulic fracturing.
- ANGA Comments on Recommended Practices for Production in Appalachian ShalesFollowing is a statement by Regina Hopper, president and chief executive officer for America's Natural Gas Alliance, on the announcement that a consortium of natural gas producers has issued recommended standards and practices for exploration and production of natural gas and oil from Appalachian shales.
- ANGA Comments on EPA Air Standards for Oil and Gas OperationsFollowing is a statement by Daniel Whitten, vice president of strategic communications for America's Natural Gas Alliance, on the Environmental Protection Agency’s air standards for oil and gas operations.
- ANGA Comments on President Obama’s Executive OrderFollowing is a statement by Regina Hopper, President and Chief Executive Officer of America's Natural Gas Alliance, on the executive order establishing an interagency working group to coordinate executive branch efforts regarding production of clean, abundant, American natural gas.
- ANGA Commends FracFocus.org on its One-Year AnniversaryFollowing is a statement by Regina Hopper, President and Chief Executive Officer of America's Natural Gas Alliance, on the one-year anniversary of FracFocus.org, a state-run online registry that offers the public information on the components of hydraulic fracturing fluids used in the natural gas development process.
- ANGA Comments on the Environmental Defense Fund Study on Methane EmissionsFollowing is a statement by America's Natural Gas Alliance Vice President for Strategic Communications Dan Whitten on a report released today on methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure.
- ANGA Applauds Increased Production of Heavy-Duty Engines Powered by Natural GasRecent announcements from manufacturers Freightliner, Kenworth, Volvo and Cummins that they will expand their natural gas heavy-duty engine product lines are a very encouraging step in our nation’s effort to advance cost-effective alternative-fueled vehicles and reduce pollution on our highways.
- ANGA Statement on Colorado’s State Implementation Plan for Regional Haze “ANGA commends the Environmental Protection Agency on its initial approval of Colorado’s State Implementation Plan for Regional Haze.”
- Energy Groups Urge EPA and DOT To Provide Level Playing Field For Natural Gas Vehicles Under New Fuel Economy and Tailpipe Emission StandardsWashington D.C. - Several natural gas-affiliated groups today called on the federal government to create a level playing field when it comes to adopting a fuel economy and GHG emissions plan for manufacturing cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles under new standards being proposed for cars and light duty trucks starting in 2017.
- ANGA Comments on the State Department’s Inclusion of Untruthful Documentary in Film Program “Just 17 days ago, President Obama, in his State of the Union address, noted our nation’s vast discoveries of natural gas and its extraordinary promise to our economic, energy security and environmental interests."
Energy Tomorrow
- Higher Supply = Higher Prices or NRDC Flunks Econ 101
- Report: Industry Commitment to Workplace Health, Safety Paying Off
- Massachusetts, Jobs and the Shale Energy RevolutionInteresting report in the Boston Globe about how a ripple of economic benefits from shale natural gas development is reaching a non-energy state, Massachusetts. Clean Harbors, Inc., a Norwell, Mass., company that delivers environmental services, estimates that demand for its know-how from shale-rich Pennsylvania generated 25 percent of its $2 billion in reve […]
- Apples, Oranges, and the Oil Sands
- Generation Next: Securing Tomorrow’s Energy Industry Workforce
- Keystone XL: Safety, Reliability and JobsTransCanada President and CEO Russ Girling has a letter to the editor in the New York Times after the newspaper’s recent editorial criticizing the Keystone XL pipeline. Main points: The Keystone XL would feature the strongest steel and would conform to the highest safety standards. TransCanada already has agreed to 57 special conditions laid out by the […]
- Stop-Gap Energy vs. Stable Energy
- Made in America: Increase Access for Secure Energy FutureAmerican-made energy. With the Energy Information Administration projecting that the United States will need more than 16 percent additional energy by 2035, the idea that we could, before then, see 100 percent of our liquid fuel needs met domestically and from Canada is huge. Make that gigantic. Increased access to American energy resources is the key. API […]
- Video: Water Management is in Everyone’s InterestCheck out this video by WPX Energy that describes the careful way energy companies are using water from Donegal Lake in south central Pennsylvania for hydraulic fracturing. Regulatory Manager David Freudenrich notes that water levels in the lake are carefully monitored to make sure the lake has plenty of water for fishing and surface recreation. Below certai […]
- Study: E15 Could Put Some Engines at Risk
America’s Power
- New ACCCE Ad Campaign: Now Is Not The Time To Add 'Pain At The Plug' To 'Pain At The Pump'
- New Web Video Looks At President Obama’s History With Coal
- After Criticism, Obama Campaign Site Finally Adds "Clean Coal" To Its Energy Plan
- Clean Coal Campaign Teams with NASCAR
- New EPA Regulations are the Latest Attempt to Shutter America’s Coal Industry
- ACCCE Urges Close Look at EPA's Expensive, Job Destroying Regulation
- New ‘Beyond Coal’ Ad Campaign Seeks to Move America Beyond Prosperity
- ACCCE President Miller to Retire
- ACCCE Supports Bipartisan Majority of U.S. House of Representatives in Calling on EPA to Stop More Bad Regulations
- ACCCE Statement on U.S. Senate Effort to Restrain EPA’s Job-Destroying Regulation
NYT – El Paso
- Korean Oil Firm Is Part of Group Buying El Paso AssetsA South Korean state-run oil company, the Korean National Oil Corporation, is a part of the group that includes Apollo Global Management, Riverstone Holdings and Access Industries.
- How Wall Street Deals With ConflictsThere are no options to police conflicts among investment bankers as there are in the law. Indeed, conflicts of interest appear to be almost a cost of doing business on Wall Street these days.
- DEALBOOK; El Paso Shareholders Approve Kinder Morgan DealShareholders of the natural gas pipeline operator El Paso Corporation overwhelmingly approve takeover bid by Kinder Morgan, originally valued at $21.1 billion.
- A Mirror Can Be a Dangerous Tool for Some C.E.O.'sBeing a visionary leader, or at least thinking you are, can propel corporate chieftains to great heights, but it can also lead to extreme narcissism. And the victims are often shareholders.
- El Paso Corp. Chief Defends His Actions in Kinder Morgan DealIn a letter to employees, Douglas L. Foshee said he acted properly in negotiating the sale of the El Paso Corporation to Kinder Morgan, despite criticism from a Delaware judge.
- DEALBOOK; As an Adviser, Goldman Sachs Guaranteed Its PaydayAndrew Ross Sorkin DealBook column discusses recent revelations that Goldman Sachs, in an advisory role in Kinder Morgan's deal for El Paso, was on every conceivable side of the negotiations, and El Paso may have unwittingly sold itself for far too cheap a price; holds Goldman's brazenness in the deal is nothing short of breathtaking, and is just a […]
- DealBook OnlineDealBook Online; bill in Congress might give companies caught in government investigations a mechanism to recover some payments if a former officer or director is found to have violated the law; Mike Stewart, JPMorgan Chase head of proprietary trading, is leaving to start his own hedge fund; El Paso Corp pushes back shareholders vote on company's planne […]
- As an Adviser, Goldman Guaranteed Its PaydayIn an advisory role in a deal for the El Paso Corporation, Goldman Sachs was on every conceivable side of the negotiations, and El Paso may have unwittingly sold itself at far too cheap a price.
- El Paso Delays Vote on Kinder Morgan Deal by a Few DaysThe El Paso Corporation said it pushed back the meeting by a few days, to allow shareholders to weigh a Delaware judge's criticism of the process that led to the company's $21.1 billion sale to Kinder Morgan.
- The Losers in the El Paso Corp. OpinionWhile its liability exposure is limited, the El Paso Corporation's investment bank, Goldman Sachs, sustains another blow to its reputation, argues the Deal Professor.
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