A new book and the temperatures in the Mountains

One of the many significant salient points that Donna Laframboise makes in her new book on the IPCC lies in the predilection of the IPCC aut...

OGPSS - Natural gas pipelines and regulation

In the last post on this topic I covered some of the earlier developments in the use of natural gas (NG) as a lighting source, and began t...

The Oil and Gas Production Sunday Series

We are now in the period where the subject of peak oil is no longer getting the ridicule that it created when we started discussing the topi...

The Future of Oil Shale

I have spent some time over the past few weeks writing about various different ways of producing oil from oil shale. While it is now about ...

Nuclear weapons and oil shale

There is a distinct possibility that we will see the global supply of oil begin to decline within the next decade. In fact the drop may com...

Oil Shale, a future source of oil?

One of the large numbers that is often quoted in response to the concerns that some of us express over future energy supplies relates to the...

Trying to legislate technology

Over on Climate Progress there is a note on the 100th coal-fired power station to be cancelled or postponed in recent months. This one is ...

Wind in the Rockies is expensive

Government policy can, once decided, be implemented by a combination of laws and financial incentives/disincentives among other means. Thus,...