The current state of U.S. energy subsidies: a topic that somehow manages to – simultaneously – bore me to death and make me pissy. (And yes, I uttered that particular word out loud in front of my Ecocentric colleagues last week. I’m not proud.)
Where to begin? First, the Senate couldn’t bring itself to strip a few tax subsidies for oil companies a couple Thursdays ago. That measure wouldn’t have touched coal or natural gas companies, just the five largest, most profitable oil companies in t ... *Read Full Article»
On a weekend trip near Monticello, New York during the summer of 2010, my family and I visited some friends of ours, a married couple we’ve known for years. Over lunch, I mentioned that we had passed by several anti-fracking signs on our way to their home. Gasland had recently aired on HBO and I was curious what our friends thought about fracking (aka high-volume, horizontal hydraulic fracturing), so I asked them. There was a pause; our friends looked at each other uneasily. Long story short, in 2009 they had leased some land they own in Pennsylvania to a gas drilling company. I can’t remember what I said but suffice it to say, I was taken aback.
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