Over the past few years, I’ve written several articles calling out Chevron’s nauseating behavior in defiling the rain forests and people of Ecuador. In many such posts, I’ve speculated that they’d still be fighting against the world justice system long after …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Congress Can’t Wait to Approve Keystone XL
Everyone with lungs should be in support of the Sierra Club and what they’ve done with their campaign called “Beyond Coal,” which has brought the awareness of the issue to tens of millions of Americans who otherwise would have been …
Reject the Keystone XL
I just signed The Center for Biological Diversity’s petition calling for POTUS Obama to “Reject the Keystone XL Once and for All.” Will rejecting the project materially change our country’s devotion to oil? No. Will doing so suggest to Americans and …
Proud to Write for the Financial Prognosticator "The Hedge Connection"
Over the last six months I wrote a number of articles for the Hedge Connection, a newsletter that goes out to many thousands of investors, especially family offices. Considering that one of its most important domains is clean energy, I was …
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Why Are Oil Prices Falling? Putin? Something Else?
A colleague just sent me this: “The story should not be how falling oil prices will impact the shift to clean energy, it should be how the shift to clean energy is impacting the oil price.” – Michael Liebreich, chairman of …
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Vermont: The Mecca for Fossil Fuel Divestment
If you like self-styled people who don’t ask permission to do what they think is right, you have to live in awe of the state of Vermont. The presence of Bernie Sanders in the U.S. senate (pictured) is proof enough, …
Oil and Terrorism
In our discussions of the oil industry and its legitimacy, we occasionally run across people who deny that oil and terrorism have any real link, e.g., this comment to my recent piece on electric transportation: …. nor has “terrorism” got …
Plunging Oil Prices and Renewable Energy
Alejandro Manrique is a colleague from Argentina, who, last year, demonstrated his great generosity: he donated a ton of time to translate a great deal of our content here into Spanish. He wrote me just now to wish me a Happy …
Lopsided Reporting on the Coal Ash Eco-Disaster
A friend sent me this piece on the environmentally disastrous coal ash accident that occurred earlier this year. I wrote in return: Yes. I saw that recent “60 Minutes” piece in which Leslie Stahl (and the editors) totally barbecued the CEO …
The Oil-by-Rail Problem
Here’s a piece on railway disasters involving oil tankers. I could be wrong, but it seems that the ecological damage of these incidents is an externality of the oil business that is seldom counted—even by the people who are counting.
