Back in January, when I published this, I didn’t think it would garner the attention it did.
Rex responds to the critics.
Never die, Rex.
What I call, Be Proud, below the fold.
Keystone Kop
Trafficking in stupidity – “What Was Tom Steyer Doing In This Isolated Canadian Town?”
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Free Ethical Oil!
Keystone Kop
The time has come to position our forces along the Alaskan border.
The Canadian government demanded an answer immediately on the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline. It has now received a reply from the United States government that amounts to: Maybe next year.
The project is now paralyzed for an indefinite period, with the U.S. administration Friday announcing another delay in a process already beset by political and legal challenges.
The announcement made it clear that Canadian pipeline backers will not get the answer they wanted in time for the summer construction season, pushing completion of the project until 2015 — at best.
Related: ‘Bought the president’: Does lib billionaire Tom Steyer hold all the Keystone cards?
The Sound Of Settled Science
Blast from the past.
Oh, Frack!
Oh, no – more good news.
A chemical product designed to kill bacteria in hospitals is gaining traction in the oil and gas industry as a solution for treating hydraulic fracturing water.
Excelyte, which has been successfully tested on flowback water from the Piceance and Marcellus shale basins, is being tested in eastern Utah’s Uintah Basin for use in hydraulic fracturing, well maintenance and treatment of flowback water, said Integrated Environmental Technologies (IET) CEO David LaVance in an interview with Rigzone.
The water treatment solution is similar to bleach in the sense that chlorine is the active ingredient, but unlike bleach, which is caustic with a high alkaline content, Excelyte is Ph-neutral and benign to humans. However, the product is deadly to aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in water used in hydraulic fracturing. Excelyte is also effective in killing viruses, and the product has yet been tested on a bacteria it couldn’t kill, including anthrax, said LaVance. Excelyte also is non-toxic and undetectable 90 days after use.
h/t David B.
Free Ethical Oil!
Greenpeace wants Elections Canada Commissioner Yves Cote to investigate whether EthicalOil.org is just a way for the Conservative Party of Canada to skirt political donation limits.
“It walks like a front group, it talks like a front group,” Greenpeace campaigner Keith Stewart said Tuesday. “(We’re) asking the commissioner: Is this a front group that would violate the elections law act?” […]
He admits, however, everything “could be within the boundaries of the law.”
*snort*
Oh, Frack
Exploding sinks and liquid that flows upward.
Forward!
[I]f you visit the drilling sites in Williston, N.D., you discover an amazing phenomenon: At night, this little energy town of fewer than 30,000 people lights up like Manhattan on New Year’s Eve. All these lights are flares burning off the natural gas that was drilled that day. Why on earth would the drillers do that? Because they want oil, which sells at $100 a barrel, as opposed to natural gas, which is now so abundant that it’s cheap.
But why don’t they sell the natural gas too? Because they don’t have the pipeline capacity to bring it to the markets where it’s needed. So they are burning off an energy source, without capturing the power. What a waste.
The pipelines aren’t getting built, simply because the government isn’t letting them get built. It has been an eye-opening experience to watch liberals block an infrastructure project — the Keystone XL pipeline — that two of three Americans (and even a plurality of Democrats) support. Pew had an amazing poll last month reporting that just about every demographic group in America supports the Keystone pipeline, except for Democrats with Ph.D.s and Democrats who earn more than $100,000.
Don’t attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice.
Pembina Horse
h/t Jamie
Global Warming Cult Members on Display
Have you ever challenged a person when they’ve used the term “denier” to describe people who question the Theory of Man-made Global Warming? I have. But in every single case, when I’ve pointed out to them that their use of the “D” word is a direct reference/comparison to Holocaust Deniers, they adamantly state that it is not. In some ways, I believe them, for most are LIPs (Low Information Parrots) who are simply regurgitating the latest talking points they’ve absorbed from their MSM “news” sources.
However, no such excuse can be given to educated Leftists – the politicians and writers and academics who clearly DO know better. In a recent column, James Delingpole exposes one such person:
Global warming ‘deniers’ are as bad as ‘Holocaust deniers’ because climate change is as “as certain as Auschwitz”, a Guardian columnist, Nick Cohen, has claimed.
Delingpole provides a link to an interesting article published a month ago which provides a lengthy gallery of prominent Leftists and their use of the term “denier”.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Corruption at The Washington Post
So the Post could have written a very different story about the Keystone Pipeline. The Post could have written that opposition to the pipeline is being funded in large part by [billionaire Tom Steyer] who has a personal financial interest in the pipeline not being built. And that’s not all! The billionaire is a political crony who has used his connections in Washington to get rich and to fleece consumers and taxpayers. Now, with Keystone, he is doing it again! How is that for a story that would “stir and inflame public debate in this election year?”
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So we have a contrast that couldn’t be clearer: the Washington Post published a false story about support for Keystone because it fit the Democratic Party’s agenda. It covered up a similar, but true story about opposition to the pipeline (and about “green” politics in general) because that, too, fit the Democratic Party’s agenda. I don’t think we need to look any further to connect the dots.
And yet, a still deeper level of corruption is on display here. Juliet Eilperin is a reporter for the Washington Post who covers, among other things, environmental politics. As I wrote in my prior post, she is married to Andrew Light. Light writes on climate policy for the Center for American Progress, a far-left organization that has carried on a years-long vendetta against Charles and David Koch on its web site, Think Progress. Light is also a member of the Obama administration, as Senior Adviser to the Special Envoy on Climate Change in the Department of State. The Center for American Progress is headed by John Podesta, who chaired Barack Obama’s transition team and is now listed as a “special advisor” to the Obama administration. Note that Ms. Eilperin quoted Podesta, her husband’s boss, in her puff piece on Tom Steyer.
Oh, yes-one more thing. Guess who sits on the board of the Center for American Progress? Yup. Tom Steyer.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
According to the Washington Post…
You might expect the biggest lease owner in Canada’s oil sands, or tar sands, to be one of the international oil giants, like Exxon Mobil or Royal Dutch Shell. But that isn’t the case. The biggest lease holder in the northern Alberta oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately-owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David.
Oops.
Who is Post reporter Juliet Eilperin? Among other things, she is married to Andrew Light, who writes on climate policy for the Center for American Progress. The Center for American Progress is an Obama administration front group headed by John Podesta, who is a “special advisor” to the Obama administration. CAP’s web site, Think Progress, has carried out a years-long vendetta against the Koch brothers that has focused largely on the environment. Ms. Eilperin’s conflict in writing about environmental issues has already been a subject of controversy at the Post.
Related: ‘People Would Be Surprised At The Level Of Cooperation Reporters Have With Politicians’
Fukushima And Chernobyl
Myth versus Reality
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h/t Eric
The Keystone Pipeline
Currently running above ground.
Keystone’s friends and foes alike may have underestimated the North American rail system’s ability to handle the thick, gritty oil from western Canada known as tar sands. And while rail was originally a stopgap solution to the lack of a pipeline, oil producers have discovered its advantages.
Now, transportation and energy experts on both sides of the border believe that Canadian crude shipments by rail will continue to increase, whether the pipeline is ultimately approved and built or not. Concerns about the safety of rail shipments after a series of recent derailments won’t slow the growth, they say.
Free Ethical Oil!
Yours to distribute.
The End of the Sentence
Premier Wall at the Manning Conference.
The Keystone Pipeline
Currently running above ground.
I Amuse Myself
"Province of @NorthDakota" has a nice ring to it, yes? MT @CeresNews #Flaring in ND's #Bakken http://t.co/qQazh06pKM #Canada #openarms
— Katewerk (@katewerk) February 5, 2014
Propain
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
National Energy Board, November 28th, 2013 – Expectations for a mild winter could lead to lower propane demand in Canada and the U.S.
CTV Ottawa, January 27th, 2014 – Eastern Ontario homeowners hit with skyrocketing propane bills
Associated Press, January 29th, 2014 – The propane drain coincides with extreme cold temperatures in several Midwestern and Southern states where residents and business owners are struggling to keep heating tanks filled due to increased costs or supply cut-offs.
There’s more – “National supplies of propane were depleted by a late harvest that increased demand from farmers who needed to dry an unusually large amount of grain before storage.”
To make ethanol.
(h/t James M) *Updated with additional linkage