Rick Martinez gets it wrong again
As he tries to spray dispersants on the growing concerns over offshore drilling:The pictures of oil from the BP gusher reaching the shores of Louisiana tear at my heart. But the images haven't changed...
View ArticleBurr says restrictions on Big Oil are to blame for Gulf oil spill
__________ is to blame for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Insert your answer in the blank. If you answered "too many restrictions on Big Oil companies," you might be the only person in...
View ArticleNC Conservation Network alert: offshore drilling bill
Just got this heads-up in the (e)mail:We have some breaking good news on North Carolina's response to the Gulf oil disaster and an urgent request for you to contact your state representative in the...
View ArticleThe truth behind Sue Myrick's blathering
If you were to take this statement at face value:“I understand the concerns of people; environmentally we have to live in a real world,” said Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C. “Until we can develop the other...
View ArticleOffshore drilling off the table, again
Administration reverses position on drilling in the Atlantic:The Obama administration reversed course Wednesday and said it wouldn't allow drilling off the Atlantic coast and in the eastern Gulf of...
View ArticleNC GOP's "Drill Bill" explored
First, a little uninformed misinformation:Acknowledging the timing was ironic, a trio of Republican state senators this morning held a news conference to announce they had filed a bill to open up the...
View ArticlePresident Obama promotes myth about offshore drilling and gas prices
Cross-posted from the Institute for Southern Studies.With Congress taking action in recent weeks to expand and speed up offshore oil and gas drilling, President Obama used his weekly radio address this...
View ArticlePresident Obama reinstates moratorium on offshore drilling
Which never should have been dropped in the first place:But the White House, in its latest five-year plan proposal, also intends to place all of the East Coast off limits to exploration, reports The...
View ArticleSo this is McCrory's plan to save NC?
At the Oriental Shrine Club in Greensboro last week McCrory told the audience:“We will create jobs as a government by getting into the energy-exploration business, both offshore and underground.”read more
View ArticleKoch Brothers Invest in NC Politics
Koch Industries, the Kansas-based oil and chemical conglomerate whose owners Charles and David Koch have played a leading role in financing the fight against government regulation, is stepping up its...
View ArticleMartinez misleads his readers, once again
Peppering the pages with irrelevant statistics:The difference is fossil fuels. Because North Dakota is producing low-cost energy through exploration and extraction of the Bakken shelf, that state has...
View ArticleGovernor McEnergy gets excited, blows a transformer
"Finally! Something I'm slightly less unqualified to talk about."McCrory said exploration is part of a two-pronged approach to make the energy industry a sector that will help North Carolina come...
View ArticlePresident accosted by strange man claiming to be Governor
An anonymous source on the security detail was quoted, "Look, these things happen from time to time, we can't be everywhere. Heads will roll."“In the short time I had on the tarmac I took advantage of...
View ArticleConcerns raised about seismic testing for offshore drilling
Devastation before the first drill bit descends:But one environmental group warns that damage to marine life from seismic air guns probing for pockets of oil and gas would mean bigger losses for...
View ArticleOffshore drilling: Unpredictable benefits, known risks
Republican legislators did everything but pull teeth to get Mike Walden to give a rosy picture about offshore drilling. Much to my surprise, he didn't.Republicans on the committee pushed Walden to say...
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