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Publications Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!   Research & Commentary: Study Shows Potential Economic Pain in New Mexico if Fracking Is Banned on Federal Lands January 14, 2021 $62 Billion In Lost Tax Revenue, $85 Billion In Lost Income, $207 Billion In Lost Value Added Through 2040 A new study from the School of Energy Resources at the University of Wyoming lays out how a ban on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on federal lands would lead to “significant fiscal and ...

ARCTIC OIL DEVELOPMENT Alaska’s northern frontier and Arctic Ocean waters are teeming with species found in few other places, and many of them are now under threat from the oil industry and its enablers. The Western Arctic Reserve and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge provide critical denning areas for polar bears; support vast caribou herds; and are essential nesting grounds for thousands of bird species, including threatened eiders and yellow-billed loons. The sea ice of the Arc...

Because the implication there after that is what are you gonna do about it? thats kind of where we are right now, what are we gonna do about it? i think the answer is, were likely going to have to pro-side some escorts for the tanker flow through that main artery of oil development, but we cant do it by ourselves, dana. we dont have the ships to do that. wed have to bring all of our ships to that area. we need coalition partners in the region. they will ante up to do that. we also want our other...

Im convinced that its men and women in carhart and steel toed boots who built this country and its men and women in suits and ties who are tearing it down too often. those people, the grassroots of this country, they have more common sense in their little finger than most politician up on the hill do we need to listen to them. maybe you can educate me on this. ive always believed there is some part of inherent disconnect and how they perceive things and how theyre connected to practical things i...

Im convinced that its men and women in carhart and steel toed boots who built this country and its men and women in suits and ties who are tearing it down too often. those people, the grassroots of this country, they have more common sense in their little finger than most politician up on the hill do we need to listen to them. maybe you can educate me on this. ive always believed there is some part of inherent disconnect and how they perceive things and how theyre connected to practical things i...

>> that was bill waoert reporting and i want to bring in someone who feels so strongly about this potential exploration in the arctic that she wrote an open letterer bears her name. these words from dr. jane goodall. there is compelling scientific evidence of why it is truly important to protect this place. around the globe so many indigenous people have been harmed in the name of progress. we have other sources of energy. please vote against oil development in the arctic national wildlife refug...

>> in a week of news dominated by president trumps decision to pull out of the paris climate accord, subpoenas in the russian probe and terror attacks, the trump administration achieved some major accomplishments that are going mostly unnoticed. the "wall street journal" lays out the highlight. they include president trumps interior secretary signing an order to start oil development in alaska. senate republicans beginning to draft their healthcare bill and the dakota pipeline finally coming int...

They have their own terror issues to deal with. chechen rebels. >> were following the oil development and how these situations, including record flooding in the midwest, are hit oil refine riz. oil was up today. i should stress it is down on the year. the first back-to-back down year for oil since 1998. energy watchers still plan -- what do you think? >> i think its amazing the way oil came up today when we saw the pictures of out dubai with the fire. and the flooding we have had in illinois, it...

All of that. but today shell essentially said that for all theyve poured into this project theyre better off just taking a loss. this is a huge turnaround for a corporate giant on one of the most environmentally sensitive issues in the country. and joining us now is jennifer dlouhy, energy reporter for the "houston chronicle." jennifer has been covering had. thanks for being here tonight. first of all, from your reporting, is this as big a deal, as big a turnaround for shell as it would seem, to...

>> so the gulf of mexico has been under exploration and under oil development for decades, since the 1950s. and by contrast, you know, the arctic does not have -- the u.s. arctic anyway doesnt have pipelines. it doesnt have production facilities. so any oil company doesnt just have to find the crude that they want to produce and sell. they need to find a way to get it to market. so they have to build all of those facilities. and thats an extraordinary undertaking. the amount of environmental ana...