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Size of Keystone XL pipeline fight overshadows impact
Posted by Columbus Dispatch: None Given on November 7th, 2015
Columbus Dispatch: The fight over the Keystone XL pipeline had all the elements of a classic Washington scrap: protests, political ads and lobbyists on retainer. What was sometimes missing in the seven-year struggle, energy analysts say, was an accurate accounting of the project’s impact on the environment or the economy, the twin issues that drove the debate. Environmentalists said Keystone XL, which TransCanada Corp. first applied to build in 2008, raised the risks of climate change. But a U.S. environmental review...
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Production Ohio’s Utica Shale Increasing Fast
Posted by Columbus Dispatch: None Given on January 2nd, 2014
Columbus Dispatch: Ohio energy companies extracted more than twice as much oil and gas from the Utica shale in the third quarter of 2013 as they did in all of 2012, according to new figures issued by the state.
Although that might seem like a dramatic increase, the spike in production was not unexpected, considering the increase in active wells, industry experts say.
The numbers are part of the first-ever quarterly report on the Utica shale, the result of a new state law that requires companies to file a report...
Food forecast may have China worried over global warming
Posted by Columbus Dispatch: None Given on March 9th, 2013
Columbus Dispatch: Last week’s announcement by China’s Ministry of Finance that the country will introduce a carbon tax, probably in the next two years, did not dominate the international headlines. It was too vague about the timetable and the rate at which the tax would be levied, and fossil-fuel lobbyists were quick to portray it as meaningless. But the Chinese are deadly serious about fighting global warming, because they are really scared.
A carbon tax, though deeply unpopular with the fossil-fuel industries,...