Category Archives: Energy markets

Is “US Energy Dominance” Overhyped? Top Experts Doubts Claims About Future Net Energy Exports

Why US energy production forecasts, specifically from shale plays, may be exaggerated in a serious way.

Inside the Trump Admin’s Fight to Keep the Keystone XL Approval Process Secret

The Trump Administration has been withholding documents in the ongoing suit against the Keystone XL pipeline.

Exxon’s Conspiracy Charges Aim To Derail Climate Lawsuits

ExxonMobil is engaged in unprecedented efforts to sue and harass in court those are investigating and suing the company over global warming

Gaius Publius: Obama Energy Secretary Named to Board of Utility Giant

Obama alumni taking revolving door Big Energy jobs puts paid to the idea that Dems are less beholden to corporate interests than the GOP.

Shareholder Proposals Target Climate Change Risk

Shareholders step up demands for companies disclose more information about the impact of climate change; these calls extend beyond energy companies.

Why Is The Shale Industry Still Not Profitable?

A careful parsing of shale industry performance data indicates that the industry’s claims of productivity gains are overstated.

Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster

A jury acquitted front line workers in the horrific Lac-Mégantic “bomb train,” but the higher-ups have not been held to account.

Solar Import Tariff: Pain Without Benefit

On the not-well-thought-out solar tariff.

Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill

Offshore drilling is dangerous to workers, wildlife, and the public. The Trump Administration is happy to keep it that way to boost profits.

Wolf Richter: Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact

Even China is Buying U.S. LNG

Mexico’s Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Face Indigenous Pipeline Resistance South of Border

Mexico is now facing its own Standing Rock-like moment as the Yaqui Tribe challenges Sempra Energy’s Agua Prieta pipeline between Arizona and the Mexican state of Senora.

Judge Sides with Big Oil in Maine Pipeline Case

Judge allows oil company challenge to city ordinance to proceed, to allow pipeline company in theory to transport Canadian tar sands oil.

Is The Oil Glut Set To Return?

EA gives a downbeat forecast for oil prices in 2018.

Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future

The insane trajectory of the energy cost of bitcoin mining.