Pickens Plan Media Coverage 9.16.10
EPA: Fracking Study Is A Challenge – Fortune – 9/16/10 EPA Wraps Up Two Days Of Smooth Meetings On Fracking Issue – Ithaca Journal – 9/15/10 Virginia To Host Energy Conference In October – Norfolk Virginian-Pilot – 9/14/10 Wind Energy’s Real Problems – Peak Oil – 9/15/10 Reid Uses Suvs To Assuage Green Job Protestors Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 9.15.10
T. Boone Pickens To Speak At Virginia’s First Energy Conference – Washington Post Blog – 9/14/10 Pickens To Keynote Energy Conference In Richmond – Washington Examiner – 9/14/10 T. Boone Pickens To Headline Governor’s Energy Conference – Richmond Times-Dispatch – 9/14/10 U.S. Largest Oil Importer, Pickens Says – UPI.com – 9/15/10 Pickens: U.S. Imported $29.3B Continue Reading
Natural Gas Generates More and More Electricity
The Wall Street Journal reports that vast supplies of low cost domestic natural gas are convincing power companies to switch from coal-fired plants to natural gas-powered facilities: Power companies are increasingly switching to natural gas to fuel their electricity plants, driven by low prices and forecasts of vast supplies for years to come. While the Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 9.14.10
OPEC’s Birthday – Huffington Post – 9/14/10 McDonnell Announces Conference Promoting Virginia As An East Coast Energy Capital – Associated Press – 9/14/10 Pro-Drilling Crowd Stress Love For Land – Press & Sun Bulletin – 9/14/10 Strong Positions On Either Side Of “Fracking” At EPA Hearing – Philadelphia Inquirer – 9/14/10 How Washington’s Latest “Brainwave” Continue Reading
OPEC's Birthday
Today is OPEC’s – the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries – 50th birthday. OPEC was formed in 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Since then it has expanded to 12 countries, but its goal is the same: To influence and, if necessary, manipulate the price of crude oil in the world. OPEC Continue Reading
U.S. Imported 382 Million Barrels of Oil in August, Spending $29.3 Billion
In his monthly update on the level of foreign oil imports in the U.S., energy expert T. Boone Pickens said that based on the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. imported 63 percent of its oil, or 382 million barrels in August 2010, sending approximately $29.3 billion, Continue Reading
National Clean Energy Summit 3.0
At the National Clean Energy Summit 3.0 in Las Vegas, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said we’ve got to start getting the things done that we agree on. The Pickens Plan is something that has wide bi-partisan support and we can – and should – get it done now. Continue Reading
Increasing Popularity of the Pickens Plan
Political analysts are pointing to the Pickens Plan as playing an increasingly important role in upcoming energy legislation that will be proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. So says Andrew Schenkel, a political reporter based in Washington who is also the former bureau chief for NBC-TV affiliate KCWY. According to Schenkel, Reid announced that before Continue Reading
"Peak Oil" May be Looming – German Think Tank
The issue of “Peak Oil” is a hotly debated one. Peak Oil marks the point when the amount of oil available for recovery and use begins to decline. According to a report leaked to the German magazine Der Speigel there is “some probability that peak oil will occur around the year 2010 and that the Continue Reading
Tulsa Shool District Goes to Natural Gas Buses
The Tulsa, Oklahoma public schools have replaced their school bus fleet with vehicles running on natural gas. According to the Tulsa Journal Record “Tulsa Public Schools is converting its fleet of 177 diesel-powered buses to natural gas. The change is expected to save the district up to $1 million a year.” The Speaker of the Continue Reading