Clean Coal, Hard Cash

AP released a brief article this morning outlining the real emphasis behind the push for “Clean Coal“. Governor Brian Schweitzer, in Bismarck on Tuesday for an energy seminar said, “clean coal technology could help generate billions of dollars for his state and North Dakota.“
Therein is revealed the real purpose behind our support for “Clean Coal“. [...]

CCS questions remain

Climate legislation in both the Senate and House seek billions of dollars to fund carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects nationwide. Is this technology safe? Is it cost effective? Does it work? Does it even exist? These are the questions that we need to answer before we begin to just lob money at energy companies.
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Beetle Battle

Coming soon, to a pine tree near you! He’s a tiny little feller, about the size of a grain of rice, but boy is he hungry. The Mountain Pine Beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae is a Rocky Mountain native and we had learned to live with occasional outbreaks. We are now in the middle of a full [...]

Denny the Dodger

Back in July, Denny Rehberg signed the Let Freedom Ring, “Responsible Healthcare Reform Pledge“. He pledged to not vote to enact any health care reform legislation that he has not read personally in it’s entirity and that has not been available on the internet for at least 72 hours. The good news is, that Denny [...]

Temperature tantrum

I see that it was snowing in Colorado and Wyoming yesterday. Imagine that, snow in October. So, there you have it, global warming is a fake. That’s about as deep into the data as the folks who denounce climate change like to go.
One of the favorite ploys of climate change deniers is to claim that [...]

Coal ash conundrum

Last week, the Bugle published an article concerning a recent National Research Council study on the hidden health and environmental consequences of power production in the U.S. The study found that we pay, as a nation, about $120 billion per year, mostly in increased health problems and early deaths for our reliance on fossil fuels.
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There ain’t no free lunch

It is imperative for the health of the planet that we move away from extractive, carbon-based energy and toward more environmentally friendly alternatives. However, an article in the New York Times this morning reminds us that there are always going to be consequences to the planet no matter how we get our electrical power. Two [...]

People are stupid

That may be a bit harsh. Maybe a better word would be “uninformed“. As we come down to the line on passing some kind of clean energy legislation through the Congress, it has come to my attention that most people don’t have a clue what the hell we are talking about, but are never the [...]

Snowe Job

It’s come down to this. Democrats can’t stop two of their own from actively signing on to the Republican agenda so, we once again are willing to pay the price of letting more people die so a single Republican, Olympia Snowe, will play nice. President Obama is now actively courting Snowe by pushing her “trigger” [...]

Failure to launch

I love this! Jonathan Karl at ABC News reported yesterday that
Democratic sources tell me that Reid – after a series of meetings with Democratic moderates – has concluded he can pass a bill with a public option.
That’s certainly good news. It’s possible that this is really just a trial balloon to see if they can [...]