“If we can’t even use seismic to ‘see’ the vast majority of our underground prospects and resources, we cannot possibly estimate what is actually there. The one thing we can say is: Our current estimates of U.S. oil and gas resources are wrong, and are almost certainly much too low.”
“Producing ANWR’s oil riches represents hundreds of billions in state and federal royalties and corporate income taxes, over the life of the fields, plus billions more in lease sale revenues, plus thousands of direct and indirect jobs, in addition to numerous jobs created when all this money is reinvested in the USA.”
Paul Driessen is a indefatigable intellectual warrior for energy and climate realism. Propelled by a distain for crony environmentalism that promotes global poverty, he has produced weekly opinion-page editorials and written a full-scale book challenging climate alarmism and unmasking energy fantasies.…
Continue Reading“India’s chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian has declared that India will fight against the ‘carbon imperialism’ being imposed on it. He affirmed the country’s plans to promote clean coal and suggested the development of a global coal alliance that can counter the renewable push by climate alarmists.”
India and the U.S. are about to deepen their economic ties—thanks to a government that supports free trade and conventional energy sources. A tradition continues: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-India partnership—a partnership that began in 1947 when President Harry S. Truman welcomed Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Speaking at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters that the U.S.-India partnership is set to get stronger in the next four years.…
Continue Reading“President Trump was right to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement. When withdrawing the Clean Power Plan, Pruitt should make it clear that, independent of its other problems, the Paris Agreement violates the will of Congress and is a betrayal of the American people.”
In explaining why he is withdrawing the Clean Power Plan (CPP), Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on October 17 that, under the Paris climate change agreement, “China and India don’t have to take any steps with CO2 [carbon dioxide] reductions until the year 2030.”
In fact, developing countries never have to make emission cuts.
What the climate treaty really says
The Paris Agreement starts:
“The Parties to this Agreement,
Being Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [UNFCCC]…
In pursuit of the objective of the [UNFCCC] Convention, and being guided by its principles….”