Fracking for yellowcake
Uranium fracking could soon be coming to a watershed near you. Photo: Marcin Wichary/Flickr. It works for oil and natural gas, so why not frack for uranium too? After all, America relies on foreign...
View ArticleDo we have enough water to frack our way to energy independence?
Photo: ashleigh290/Flickr. In chemistry you quickly discover that oil and water don’t mix. The same is true in the energy industry. It’s unfortunate, because the new fuel sources that the International...
View ArticleThe price for energy independence
Photo: futureatlas.com/Flickr. Move over OPEC, North America is about to become a net exporter of oil. At least that’s the supposed good news from the International Energy Agency’s latest outlook....
View ArticleWill Syria bring an oil shock?
Photo: FreedomHouse/Flickr. Is the Middle East about to deliver another oil shock to the global economy? The U.S. military has targets picked out in Syria and President Obama is trying to convince...
View ArticleHow farmland became Canada’s hottest real estate market
Photo: FeatheredTar/Flickr. Buy land, advised Mark Twain, because, as the punch line goes, they ain’t making any more of it. Fast forward to 2013 and that advice, as a look at prices for farmland...
View ArticleWhy energy producers need to pay heed to global warming
Image: AZRainman/Flickr. The world’s top climate change scientists are now 95 percent certain that humans are responsible for global warming. That’s the headline takeaway from the latest findings by...
View ArticleThe downside of higher U.S. energy exports
Photo: MrHicks46/Flickr. Critics of TransCanada’s Keystone XL project often argue that Canada should reap the full benefits of its natural resources, rather than exporting its petroleum riches south of...
View ArticleIs oil-by-rail boom an accident waiting to happen?
Photo: roy.luck/Flickr. Tick, tick, tick. The countdown to another rail accident is already on. A 90-car derailment recently in Alabama is only the latest in a series of train wrecks unfolding across...
View ArticleBig oil companies find it harder to turn a buck
Photo: Kansas Poetry (Patrick). Judging by pump prices, drivers might think oil companies were rolling in profits that only move higher. Lately, though, the big boys in the global oil industry are...
View ArticleWhy, nine years later, Keystone XL’s fate is still in limbo
Photo: amerune. It’s nine years and counting since the Keystone pipeline was first proposed and TransCanada is still waiting for presidential approval to build the line. An environmental assessment...
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