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Ignorance and Greed: Trump’s War on the Environment
Ignorance and Greed: Trump’s War on the Environment Under Donald Trump, the environment has been the hardest hit of any sector of society, carried out by executive actions, the overturning of Obama-era regulations, and the enactment of new rules via cabinet review. This assault is occurring just as NASA reports that we’ve just had another […]
When Did Global Warming Theory Begin?
When Did Global Warming Theory Begin? Back in 1967, the International Global Atmospheric Research Program was established, mainly to gather data for better short-range weather prediction, but included climate. The following year, this was the beginning of biased studies which suggested that a possibility of a collapse of the Antarctic ice sheets would raise sea levels catastrophically. […]
The Oligopolization of Food Supply Hits a Snag
The Oligopolization of Food Supply Hits a Snag Three companies to control 60% of world’s seed and pesticide markets. German drug and agrichemicals giant Bayer has suffered a setback in its efforts to acquire the world’s biggest seed company, Monsanto. Bayer had reckoned on winning regulatory approval for its $63.5 billion takeover bid at the […]
7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages
7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages At least seven people were dead after a “monster nor’easter” – officially called Winter Storm Riley – slammed the northeastern United States on Saturday, leaving a trail of flooded streets, power outages and brutal winds. NASA ✔@NASA Spotted by @NOAASatellites‘ #GOES16 satellite: today’s #noreaster […]
Drilling and Mining Interests Pushed to Shrink Utah National Monuments, Documents Reveal
Drilling and Mining Interests Pushed to Shrink Utah National Monuments, Documents Reveal Even though Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke insisted “this is not about energy,” environmentalists and public lands advocates have long suspected the Trump administration’s cuts to national monuments were driven by its push for more drilling, mining and other development. Now, internal Interior Department documents obtained by the New York Times show that […]
Make Your Choice: Change By Pain Or Insight
Make Your Choice: Change By Pain Or Insight It’s time to make the decision. Choose wisely. Most experienced investors know the four most dangerous words are: This time is different. It never is. And yet one of my key predictions here at Peak Prosperity is that The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last […]
Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States
Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States During its first year under Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Interior has coordinated closely with the oil and gas industry to accomplish its priorities on the nation’s expansive federal lands. Among them: considering a plan to transfer control of oil and gas development on public […]
Oklahoma Bolsters Earthquake Protocol For Frackers
Oklahoma Bolsters Earthquake Protocol For Frackers Oklahoma has witnessed a surge in earthquakes over the past decade. Regulators and scientists largely agree that the higher seismic activity is associated with the injection of wastewater from oil and gas production into wastewater wells. Now Oklahoma is tightening its seismic protocol for the oil and gas operations […]
Beast From The East: Europe’s Feeling The Chill
Beast From The East: Europe’s Feeling The Chill The “Beast from the East” has well and truly arrived in Europe, blanketing much of the continent in snow. The Siberian weather system has sent temperatures plummeting to as low as -30°C in some places and, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy reports, at least ten people have died due to […]
Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth
Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth “I Said Why? They Said They Didn’t Know” Let history record that on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017, 14 days after climate change-fueled Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and 4 days before Hurricane Irma hit southern Florida, the climate-denying President of the United States Donald […]
Puerto Rico: Hurricane destroyed wind, solar. Plus five months on, 15% still blacked out.
Puerto Rico: Hurricane destroyed wind, solar. Plus five months on, 15% still blacked out. In South Australia, when the lights went out, Olympic Dam took two entire weeks to get operational again. Spare a thought for those in Puerto Rico. Right now, five months later, and one in 6 still don’t have electricity. That’s five […]
The Beast from the East and European Energy Security
The Beast from the East and European Energy Security European energy security is a subject I return to time and again normally prompted by some kind of event. This time it is severe cold weather and snow that has spread from Siberia over the whole of North and Western Europe, rather late in the season, […]
Federal Judge Halts Bayou Bridge Pipeline Installation, But Photos Show Damage Already Inflicted
Federal Judge Halts Bayou Bridge Pipeline Installation, But Photos Show Damage Already Inflicted There was an eerie stillness along the route of the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin the day after a federal judge halted work on the pipeline. A temporary injunction was granted two weeks after groups opposed to the pipeline had their […]
“Communications Are Down”: Massive 7.5M Quake Cripples Papua New Guinea
“Communications Are Down”: Massive 7.5M Quake Cripples Papua New Guinea Several major oil and gas operators were forced to shutter operations on Monday after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea’s energy-rich interior, causing landslides and cutting off communications, per Reuters. The tremor hit in the rugged, heavily forested Southern Highlands about 350 […]
