Who won the award for “Worst Year in Energy” for 2019? Was it Rick Perry, who resigned as Energy Secretary when his connection to the Ukraine scandal became evident? Could be. But don’t count out the owner of the largest …
Category: Fossil Fuels
End of Coal Industry Inescapable
Those looking for a blow-by-blow description of the demise of the coal industry in the Powder River Basin in the north-central U.S. can get it in the article linked above.
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Arizona’s Navajo Generating Station Coal Plant Has Permanently Shut Down
From this article: The Navajo Generating Station, located near the Arizona-Utah border, has officially shut down after using the last of its coal, according to a Monday press release.
Another Nail in the Coffin for Fossil Fuels
The European Investment Bank, the world’s largest multilateral development bank, is soon to end lending money to organizations associated with fossil fuels. What happens when capital dries up? The entire industry slides inexorably into oblivion. Fossil fuels made the 20th …
Peak Oil Didn’t Happen, But….
From this week’s newsletter from the American Energy Society: Conventional oil discoveries have been declining; however, there were three large oil discoveries in 2019:
Banner Day for the Coal Industry, Wish We Could Say the Same for Your Health
The toxicity of coal ash, and the fact that the Trump administration couldn’t care less about it, are two well-established facts. Here we have an article that chronicles the unraveling of previous guidelines by a) easing regulations on what pollutants …
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Will Today’s Rollback of Regulations on Coal Plants Affect You?
Most readers will not feel the direct effects of the Trump administration’s rollback of the EPA regulations that had formerly kept toxic chemicals like mercury and arsenic out of our drinking water.
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Bloomberg: “Biggest Private Coal Miner Goes Bust as Trump Rescue Fails”
As reported by Bloomberg, Robert E. Murray, the U.S. coal baron who pressed the Trump administration to help save America’s struggling miners, placed his company into bankruptcy as demand for fossil fuel continues to weaken.
The “Other” News from Turkey
Turkey is on everyone’s minds currently, almost exclusively due to their slaughter of the Kurds to their south, enabled by the U.S. betrayal of its former ally. Of far fewer column-inches is Turkey’s oil and gas exploration ships that are …
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Coal’s Decline
When the Powder River Basin’s Belle Ayr coal mine opened in 1972 it was the first strip mine opened in the region (Montana and Wyoming). Now it has hit hard times. Its owner, Blackjewel LLC, was in federal bankruptcy court …
