Towns Fight States on Drilling

By DANIEL GILBERT and RUSSELL GOLD

States hoping to capitalize on their energy booms are running into resistance from local officials who want to be able to police the noise and industrialization that accompany oil-and-gas drilling. Continue reading »

Texas becomes battlefield in Keystone XL pipeline fight

Dave Montgomery The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

No link between fracking, contamination: Study

Austin: A University of Texas study says there’s no direct link between groundwater contamination and a controversial process to extract oil and gas known as fracking. 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 »

America’s New Energy Era

Alexandros Petersen 

Obama Losing Support Among Blue Collar Americans

Erika Johnsen

Energy and environment issues hot for 2012 presidential race.

Gingrich, Perry, Romney and Cain have all been critics of EPA policy. | AP Photo Close

Rick Perry: Obama’s Keystone XL Pipeline Delay Puts ‘Soliders’ Lives In Jeopardy’

By Tyler Kingkade

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s move to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline puts American lives in danger.

Perry has made energy exploration and drilling for oil a central tenant of his policy for fixing the economy as a Republican presidential candidate.

The Obama administration delayed a decision on the controversial project around the Keystone pipeline until after the 2012 election. Most of the GOP field has embraced the project.

When Sean Hannity asked Perry about the Keystone XL pipeline on the radio Tuesday, Perry blasted Obama. Continue reading »

Rick Perry’s plan for job creation? In a word, energy

Not long ago, Bill Kerrigan toured Eagle Ford Shale, a string of oil and natural gas fields south of San Antonio, Texas, that stretches across 24 counties and has yielded just shy of five million barrels of oil between January and July of this year. In that time, Eagle Ford has brought tens of thousands of workers to south Texas and turned tiny desert communities into boomtowns.

“That’s one thing about oil,” say Kerrigan, who heads Arkose Energy, an oil exploration firm based in Nashville, It’s good at creating jobs, and it does it quickly. And I don’t know of a minimum-paying job in the oil industry.”

Looking at the activity at Eagle Ford Shale, Kerrigan remembers thinking, “I wish someone from Washington would come see this.” Continue reading »

Evan Bayh: Another regulation means fewer jobs, less reliability

Made in America

Rick Perry Slashed Environmental Protection Funds As Texas Governor

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry likes to say the best way to promote economic growth is to reduce regulation. When it comes to the environment, Perry has made Texas one of the most industry-friendly states in the nation.

By CHRIS TOMLINSON

Perry has cut funding for clean air programs and sued the Environmental Protection Agency to avoid enforcing laws to make the air cleaner. As part of his Republican presidential campaign, he routinely blasts the White House for tightening environmental standards.

“As president, I would roll back the radical agenda of President Obama’s job-killing Environmental Protection Agency,” Perry wrote recently in an op-ed for the New Hampshire Union-Leader. “Our nation does not need costly new federal restrictions, especially during our present economic crisis.”

Those positions get big applause at Republican debates and fundraisers, and also provide insight into how he would govern if elected, particularly when it comes to the EPA. Continue reading »

Cain: My team working on energy strategy

Businessman Herman Cain said Saturday in Iowa that if elected president he would make the U.S. energy independent but that his plan to do so was still being developed.

“We will have an energy independence strategy because America has the resources to become energy independent. We have enough oil, coal, natural gas, shale oil,” Cain said at the Iowa Faith and Freedom dinner in Des Moines. “We have the resources to become energy independent, and my team is already working on putting that strategy together.”

Cain said the Obama administration had no energy strategy.

He said that the U.S. needs to produce its own energy and stop relying on sources “in countries that don’t like us very much.” Continue reading »

Rick Perry: Energy – Put American’s to Work Now.

Rick Perry has the only plan to get us back to work.  Let’s get America going.  Now.

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In Pennsylvania, Perry Calls To Energize America

At a steel mill outside Pittsburgh this morning, the Texas governor called for “a ‘made in America’ energy revolution.” Looking to turn the corner after a series of flat performances at debates where he was attacked for offering little substance but many sound bites, he delivered the first major economic policy speech of his campaign.

Written by Morgan Smith

graphic by: Ben Philpott

Gov. Rick Perry tours the Irving Steel Mill in West Mifflin, Pa. before giving a speech there on Oct. 14.

West Mifflin, Pa. —  If Rick Perry was once a jobs candidate without a plan to create jobs, he now has one. 1.2 million jobs, to be precise.

A proposal he said would create 1.2 million jobs and “rebuild the engine of American prosperity” focused on increasing domestic production of the country’s untapped oil, gas and coal. That reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy, he said, but also generate revenues that would help pay down the deficit.

“My plan,” he said, “is based on this simple premise: Make what Americans buy, buy what Americans make and sell it to the world.”

After promising to make his record on job creation in Texas the focus of his campaign, he yet to offer details of what his national policy might look like. Today, he presented what he said was the first phase of a reform package that he will roll out over the next week— policies he said he’d implement through executive orders as soon he was in office. It also marked the debut of a new campaign slogan: “Perry: Energizing American Jobs and Security.”

Central to the plan is eliminating what he called “activist regulations” from the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, including those restricting oil exploration in Alaska‘s coastal plain and off-shore regions, and restoring “pre-Obama” production in the Gulf of Mexico. He also vowed to stop the EPA’s “draconian measures” against greenhouse gases, which he said tied the American economy “in knots” while realizing little environmental benefit as countries like China and India plowed ahead with their own development.

For Perry, part of rolling back federal interference would mean stopping industry-specific tax credits, which he said “cost taxpayers and distort the marketplace.” That would not include tax incentives for research and development, which he said allowed industry the freedom to explore emerging technology.

He also outlined a new vision for the federal environmental agency.  He said he would “reform” the EPA’s “bureaucracy” so that it would focus “on regional and cross-state issues, providing scientific research, as well as environmental analysis and cost-comparison studies to support state environmental organizations.”

That means returning more regulatory authority to the states, which he said were best suited to make environmental rules because they had to live with the consequences of their actions. As president, he said, if states sought to “oppose energy exploration,” he would respect that decision. But he added that “these instances represent the exception, not the rule.”

In his own state, Perry has presided over a boom in both gas and wind energy production. He has also fast-tracked the approval of coal plants at a time when many other states have sought to scale back their reliance on coal. Today he attacked “hostility” to coal from both the Obama Administration and members his own party, saying that it was a vital part of job creation and that allowing the industry to invest in research was the best way to produce clean coal technology. Making coal production more costly, he said, was “taking more out of the pockets of American families.”

Though expanding oil, gas and coal production are sure not to be popular with environmentalists, Perry said that his plan would protect “ecological treasures” like Yellowstone National Park and the Everglades.

“I reject the premise that we have to choose between energy and the environment,” he said.

See article http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/jobs-plan-perry-calls-tk/

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