Posts tagged "bp"

Refuting Liberal Talking Points: Wind Farms & Wind Energy

The background material Wind power is expensive/requires subsidies/fossil fuel backup www.ncpa.org www.ncpa.org www.sbecouncil.org Wind power rarely operates at capacity and is unpredictable www.masterresource.org www.ncpa.org blog.heritage.org Wind power requires a lot of space www.ncpa.org Wind energy is not cleaner www.thegwpf.org blog.heritage.org If you like higher electricity prices, move to California (or pass renewable energy mandates in your area) articles.latimes.com tonto.eia.doe.gov blog.heritage.org www.ncpa.org

The Energy Report – 9/17/10

Susan McGinnis anchors this afternoon’s Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC. On the program: – Federal inspectors say they’ve found excessive levels of explosive coal dust in air samples from the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, where 29 men died in an April explosion.- The House has passed a measure offering zero-interest loans to rural homeowners for home weatherization.- Hurricane Karl and its 120-mph winds are bearing down on oil wells in the Mexican state of Veracruz and the country’s only nuclear power plant.- BP has completed its relief well and can now start permanently plugging the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion. www.cleanskies.comwww.twitter.com/cleanskiesnewswww.facebook.com/cleanskiesnewscontact@cleanskies.tv

The Energy Report – 9/8/10

Susan McGinnis anchors this afternoon’s Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC. On the program: – BP is taking some responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in an internal report released today.- BOEM Director Michael Bromwich says lat week’s oil platform fire in the Gulf won’t affect an upcoming decision on the deepwater moratorium.- China is idling steel mills and factories and blacking out neighborhoods to meet its ambitious energy and climate goals.- Students and environmental activists are traveling from Maine to Washington with a solar panel from the Jimmy Carter White House in an effort to persuade President Obama to again use solar power at the White House. www.cleanskies.comwww.twitter.com/cleanskiesnewswww.facebook.com/cleanskiesnews

The Energy Report – 6/28/10

Susan McGinnis anchors this afternoon’s Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC. On the program:- Hurricane warnings go up in the Gulf, as offshore oil rig workers come down.- BP says the relief well that will hopefully stop the oil gushing into the Gulf is getting closer to its target. – Some of the top minds in science and industry are in Washington today… Weighing in on the Gulf oil spill. The TEDx oil spill conference gets underway. www.cleanskies.com

The Energy Report – 6/22/10

Susan McGinnis anchors this afternoon’s Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC. On the program:- A federal judge in New Orleans has blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects that was imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill.- Oil industry executives criticized President Obama’s six-month ban on deepwater drilling, in London today, saying the world doesn’t have enough other sources of oil to eliminate deep sea rigs. -Mayors from around the country gathered along the Louisiana coast to see environmental damage caused by the spill.- Denmark gives the green light to build one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world. www.cleanskies.com