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9:15 AM, Aug 11, 2011 • By THE SCRAPBOOK
While the New York Times can barely conceal its glee at the phone-hacking scandal embroiling the rival Murdoch empire, The Scrapbook confesses to a certain schadenfreude of its own at the Gray Lady’s latest embarrassment. The Times’s slanted coverage of the natural gas industry continues to generate radioactive fallout.
Read more... Calls it ‘news.’Aug 1, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 43 • By STEVEN F. HAYWARDBy now just about everyone has jumped on board the natural gas bandwagon (see “The Gas Revolution,” April 18, 2011). Its newfound abundance inside the four corners of the United States is proving to be a disruptive factor in the nation’s energy mix. Cheap natural gas adds to the pressure on coal-fired electricity, but also makes wind and solar power much less feasible, even with massive subsidies.
Read more... Amazingly, an era of energy abundance is upon us, unless politicians and environmentalists get their way.Apr 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 • By STEVEN F. HAYWARD
Read more... The leaseholders, the gas drillers, and the regulators.Apr 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 • By ABBY WISSE SCHACHTERWayne County, Pa. The landmen who came here three years ago weren’t counting on Betty Sutliff.
Read more... Can Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., provide America with a much-needed comprehensive energy policy?11:42 AM, Mar 2, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYEight years ago, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was wrestling with the fact that America did not have a comprehensive energy policy.
Read more... The significance of Israel’s natural gas deposits.Feb 21, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 22 • By MICHAEL MAKOVSKYIsraelis have always lamented that Moses led the ancient Israelites to the one patch of land in the Middle East bereft of energy resources. It turns out the sea offered more promise. At the end of December, a huge natural gas discovery was confirmed in the Eastern Mediterranean inside Israel’s territorial waters. Once referred to as an “energy island” that not only lacked energy reserves itself but was also cut off from the huge energy resources of the nearby Arab nations, Israel may well become over the next decade an energy exporter.
Read more... ‘Think, Baby, Think’ Apr 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 30 • By STEVEN F. HAYWARDIf you think the health care debate is a tangled mess, try wading into the thickets of the energy sector, which is high on the Obama administration’s list of targets to subjugate. Few areas of national policy offer as bad a ratio of blather to substance as energy. It is a field where cliché, wishful thinking, and wince-inducing ignorance dominate the discourse.
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