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Are Chesapeake's Problems A Red Flag For Shale Gas?

May 17, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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Chesapeake Energy has been in the news a lot, lately, concerning both the significant challenges it faces in financing its ambitious development program, and its high-profile CEO, who was recently forced to relinquish his role as Chairman. The company's stock is trading for half its value one year ago and less than a fourth of its 2008 peak. [read more]

In an Election Year, Time to Talk Energy

May 17, 2012 by Mark Green
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Just a thought, but how great would it be if one of this fall’s presidential debates focused solely on energy issues?Past presidential debates have discussed the economy and jobs, national security and foreign policy, and of course all of those are important. Yet, when you think about it, energy is the nexus where all come together.... [read more]

Continuing the Dialogue with the White House

May 15, 2012 by Mark Green
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Takeaways from White House energy and climate adviser Heather Zichal’s appearance at Monday’s hydraulic fracturing workshop in Washington, D.C., hosted by API:Outreach – The oil and natural gas industry agrees with the Zichal and the administration that constructive dialog on energy issues is, well, constructive. Zichal:“I give [API... [read more]

A Tale of Two Agencies: How the BLM and EPA Will (and Won't) Regulate Hydraulic Fracturing

May 11, 2012 by Briana Mordick
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Despite being similar processes and posing similar risks to the environment, the way hydraulic fracturing is regulated is very different from the way the underground injection of other fluids is regulated.  This difference was made even more apparent when, on the same day, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the... [read more]

Nuclear fission qualifies as “ultra low carbon” power; natural gas does not

May 7, 2012 by Rod Adams
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 In the power system marketing wars, both nuclear fission and natural gas are currently labeled as “low carbon” sources of electricity. Even though nuclear fission reactors can be clean enough to run inside sealed submarines, the forces who oppose nuclear energy insist that there is enough CO2 produced in the fuel cycle and in the... [read more]

Gas industry’s first stabs at ‘standards’ & ‘practices’: how much do they reduce accident risk?

May 2, 2012 by Jim Pierobon
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That’s at least one question on this blogger’s mind. One cannot help but note the absence of “best practices” because, well, they aren’t, at least not yet. [read more]

Top EPA Official Steps Down amidst political controversy

May 1, 2012 by Nathanael Baker
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) administrator in the South and Southwest region (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas), Al Armendariz, has resigned after Republicans took aim at comments he made two years ago regarding how the EPA would "crucify" corporations that broke environmental laws.An... [read more]

US Natural Gas Price Nears $10 per Barrel Equivalence

April 30, 2012 by Geoffrey Styles
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While the average pump price of gasoline has held the attention of most Americans for much of this year, the price trend for natural gas has been equally dramatic in the opposite direction. Gasoline prices flirted with the psychologically important $4 per gallon mark for several weeks before receding to around $3.82 today. ... [read more]

The Latest Publication from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development: 'The Energy Mix'

April 28, 2012 by David Hone
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) held its annual company delegate conference in Switzerland this week. For the WBCSD Energy and Climate team the event marked the launch of the latest WBCSD publication “The Energy Mix”. This is a document that started life back in the middle of last year, originally as a response to the reaction from a number of governments to the events in Fukushima. The initial aim was to inform policy makers on the implication of sudden changes in energy policy, such as the decision by the German government to rapidly phase out the use of nuclear power. But as the work got going, the document took on a number of additional dimensions. [read more]

Natural gas reserves may rapidly disappear (and later reappear)

April 27, 2012 by Michael Giberson
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At Toronto’s The Globe and Mail, Nathan Vanderklippe reported, “Low natural gas price casts doubt on ‘proven’ reserves.”He explains how rapidly falling natural gas prices can cause reserves to disappear. And, by the way, with higher prices reserves can just as quickly reappear. It isn’t magic. But the nature of oil and gas reserves is... [read more]

Why natural gas is the ‘atomic bomb’ of the energy debate

April 20, 2012 by Corbin Hiar
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The growing role of natural gas in the U.S. energy mix continues to confound and divide renewable energy experts and investors. Is America's abundant supply of shale gas a boon for the renewable industry, or undercutting it? [read more]

ExxonMobil is betting that natural gas will NOT remain cheap

April 19, 2012 by Rod Adams
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  During my recent low production periods for new posts on Atomic Insights, I received some well intentioned advice from a frequent commenter – he told me that it would be less frustrating for me to maintain Atomic Insights if I focused more on innovations in nuclear energy than on the efforts of competitive energy suppliers to... [read more]

Dash for shale gas will not help save the climate or lower prices

April 17, 2012 by David Thorpe
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Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for shale gas, is said to be seismically "safe" in the UK, but critics say it will impede us from meeting our greenhouse gas reduction targets and stall investment in renewables.  DECC has published an independent evaluation of the seismic risks from hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, which... [read more]

Is Speculation Responsible For High Oil Prices?

April 16, 2012 by Robert Rapier
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What's the cause of the current high oil prices? Is it speculators as some in the media have suggested? [read more]

Battery Fires and Rick Santelli

April 14, 2012 by James Greenberger
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Advanced batteries and compressed natural gas can both power vehicles and can do so safely if properly engineered and manufactured. The key to the safety of both technologies is rigorous testing, high quality manufacture, and minimum safety standards. As between the safety technology coming out of the GM Technical Center and that coming out of Mr. Santelli’s garage, I will take the GM technology any day of the week. Hopefully, the press will catch on soon. [read more]