Fearing Romney victory, EPA plans post election anti-coal regulation

Conn Carroll
Washington Examiner
November 4, 2012

 

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.

More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources [...]

This Is Your Energy Entry Point: Mark Lackey

Zig Lambo of The Energy Report (8/30/12)

Oil prices are starting to creep back up while gas, coal and uranium are poised for moves this fall, according to Mark Lackey, long-time energy analyst now representing resource companies with the IR firm of CHF Investor Relations. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Mark shares his current insights on energy markets and talks about a number of companies he thinks are [...]

Solar Subsidies Follow Path Well Known to Oil, Gas, Nuclear Industries

SUN MAY 06, 2012 AT 07:01 PM PDT
Solar subsidies follow path well known to oil, gas, coal and nuclear industries
byMeteor Blades
When the solar manufacturer Solyndra went bankrupt, the critics had a field day with the Obama administration because of its $500 million loan guarantee to the company. It wasn’t just evidence of favoritism and corruption that the likes of Republican Rep. Darrell Issa went after. It was the whole idea [...]

A Dynamic Function For EROEI

A Dynamic Function For EROEI

The post below is a reproduction of a paper published in the open access journal Sustainability by Michael Dale, Susan Krumdieck, and Pat Bodger (Vol. 3). The article is a first in creating a dynamic function where Energy Return on Energy Investment changes of an energy resource are estimated over time. In this manner it becomes possible to get an estimate of how much net energy [...]