After months of build-up and nearly two weeks of negotiations, COP28 has come to an end with a deal agreed by nearly 200 countries. Headlines this morning have honed in on the news that, for the first time, the agreement includes language about the transition away from fossil fuels. Dubbed the UAE consensus, the final
Read More...With data is piling up to contradict any claims of “peak oil” within the next few decades, the IEA’s latest report on the oil and gas industry’s role in the transition to net zero pushes a pathway that would jeopardize global energy security and harm the industry’s emissions reduction efforts. Ahead of COP28, the IEA’s
Read More...There is a lot of misinformation circulating about U.S. carbon capture and storage (CCS), despite the widescale implementation of this technology having bipartisan support in Congress and the backing of the Biden administration and top energy and climate international organizations. Recently, media coverage around CCS has prioritized voices that are perpetuating this misinformation, creating an
Read More...The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee recently held a hearing to discuss opportunities for Congress to reform the permitting process for energy and critical mineral projects. While primary topics of the hearing included fast tracking reviews of pipelines, oil and natural gas wells, and mineral mines, key comments were made on the Environmental Protection
Read More...ExxonMobil Shows Us Exactly How Corporatism Is Done Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: It’s no fun singling out an oil and gas company for the corporatism we regularly condemn but truth is truth and ExxonMobil is fully engaged in
Read More...While the Biden administration consistently claims it has made emissions reduction a significant priority, its actions behind the scenes with permitting delays, a rapid decline in oil and natural gas leases, and other regulatory roadblocks tell a different story. These backlogs are obstructing growth across the energy value chain and preventing progress on the very
Read More...BP Admits European Green Energy Policies Are, Well, Loony David Blackmon Publisher and Editor, Energy Transition Absurdities … … [Editor’s Note: BP has been all on-board with loony European energy policies. It has had a bad case of Energiewende envy, but now a CEO ironically named Looney, is backing off. The Wall Street Journal reported
Read More...In a significant milestone for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), the Bureau of Land Management has approved and authorized for the first time ever a private company—ExxonMobil—to construct underground infrastructure and store CO2 deep underground on federal lands in Wyoming. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has continuously evolved over the last 50 years, becoming a
Read More...CLCPA Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: “Vested interests have had their say, and public relations have taken precedence over engineering and economics” but CLCPA “winging it” cannot and will not work.] At the September 13, 2021 meeting of New York’s Climate Leadership and Community
Read More...