Trump Denies Climate Change
There is no doubt as to the mindset of our “leadership” in Washington. Neither is there much hope for sustainable energy in our nation until there is a change there. Read the original article here […]
FERC Still FERC
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the government’s rubber stamp for the petroleum industry, continues being FERC and continues to bully its opponents. FERC remains a tool of the fossil fuel industry. OSFR had a […]
Taxpayer Boondoggle Continues.
This huge waste of taxpayer money continues on and on. Water levels in some Keystone lakes fell when the JAE began drawing out huge amounts of water from the aquifer. This resulted in a […]
FERC And Washington Rubber-Stamp Pipeline Expansion Request
“According to FERC’s own analysis, the expanded pipeline will cause $8.8 billion in damages, and contribute 1.9 million metric tons of carbon per year in pollution…” FERC is up to its old tricks of rubber-stamping […]
Is This How Our DEP Protects Our Waters?
Our DEP should be disbanded, all the personnel released and the agency start over from scratch. This situation at Piney Point could have been avoided if our DEP had simply done its job years ago. […]
New Natural Gas Pipeline Planned
Pipelines for fossil fuels are never good, even when laid alongside old ones. With new and larger lines come new risks of accidents and in this case, environment destruction of trees and land grabs by […]
Promote water conservation before building pricey pipelines
Most water advocates and independent scientists agree that water transfers are generally not a good idea, and almost always have negative consequences somewhere. We have posted multiple times about the Black Creek project. The obvious […]
Catastrophic’ California Oil Spill Kills Fish, Damages Wetlands
As our readers know, where there are mines there are accidents and where there are pipelines there are spills. Read the original article with all photographs here at Reuters. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. […]
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