Energy Transfer Sues Greenpeace: Will It Face Bankruptcy?

Energy Transfer Sues Greenpeace: Will It Face Bankruptcy?

“Everybody is afraid of these environmental groups and the fear that it may look wrong if you fight back with these people, but what they did to us is wrong, and they’re gonna pay for it.” The speaker is Kelcy Warren. He runs Energy Transfer, which moves so-called fossil fuels from one part of the … Read more

Venezuela-Style Socialism Has Come to California’s Oil Industry

Venezuela-Style Socialism Has Come to California’s Oil Industry

California’s leftist legislature will now have the power to regulate the gasoline sales profits of the state’s oil refiners. Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a law allowing the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish a state gross gasoline refining profit margin and impose penalties for surpassing it. Chevron, the state’s biggest oil refiner, criticized … Read more

Why Environmentalists Hate This New Clean Energy Development

Why Environmentalists Hate This New Clean Energy Development

Imagine getting electricity from the earth’s core with no pollution. Everyone, especially environmentalists, should be happy. Southern California Edison, one of America’s major power companies, recently struck a deal with a seven-year-old start-up called Fervo Energy. Unlike traditional methods of producing electricity, Fervo utilizes hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to tap into the earth’s limitless source of … Read more

Property Owners and Consumers Pay the Tab for Climate Alarmism

Property Owners and Consumers Pay the Tab for Climate Alarmism

Middle-class households feel the pinch of rising costs associated with environmental regulations that impose additional taxes and stringent penalties for not towing the “green line.” In Paris, for instance, if a building is old and fails an energy efficiency assessment, it can result in substantial financial burdens. Owners of thermally inefficient homes must conduct an … Read more

The Paradox of Sustainability: How Green Dreams Fuel Criminal Schemes

The Paradox of Sustainability: How Green Dreams Fuel Criminal Schemes

Green energy initiatives often generate bright, hopeful narratives of a cleaner, more sustainable future. They also give rise to a dark, tragic side when unintended consequences appear. One such case is the creation of great demand for metals and special materials that leads to surges in ‘green’ crime. Theft of these materials is driving costs … Read more

Through Fear, Strident Words and Sloppy Statistics, the International Energy Agency Plots an Eco-Future

Through Fear, Strident Words and Sloppy Statistics, the International Energy Agency Plots an Eco-Future

Perhaps no industry is more inherently prone to gigantism than energy production. Locating the raw materials, be they coal, oil or natural gas, is speculative and expensive. Refining and transporting those raw materials makes them even more costly. Turning them into electric power requires massive boilers and other machinery. Then, distributing this energy to a … Read more

Unreliable Wind and Solar Energy Will Not Save the World

Unreliable Wind and Solar Energy Will Not Save the World

About twenty years ago, a neighbor related a story from his youth on a farm in Missouri during the early thirties. The family’s only source of electricity was a windmill that recharged a battery. When the wind blew steadily through the day, the battery got enough power for three hours of radio and one electric … Read more

Why Is Biden’s SEC Waging War on American Energy?

Why Is Biden’s SEC Waging War on American Energy?

Russia’s war on Ukraine is changing the geopolitics of the world. The delicate situation calls for agility and improvising to adjust to a crisis that could quickly become ugly. The Biden Administration and Western Europe have imposed sanctions as part of a strategy to end the war. However, the Administration is also applying “sanctions” upon … Read more

Why Can’t the Greens Accept Nuclear Power as Ecologically Correct?

Why Can’t the Greens Accept Nuclear Power as Ecologically Correct?

The Green movement has an atom-sized problem that is destroying its credibility. On the one hand, scientists and engineers are refining and advancing ecologically friendly ways of producing nuclear power. There is a rejuvenated interest in this nuclear power option. Rolls Royce is planning to build small reactors in England. Emmanuel Macron recently announced the … Read more