Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles or tell us about other current items of interest in the comment thread below.
Bush lifts executive ban on offshore oil drilling
Associated Press, 7.15.08
President George W. Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore oil drilling yesterday and challenged Congress to follow suit, aiming to turn the enormous public frustration about gasoline prices into political leverage. Democratic lawmakers rejected Bush’s plan as a symbolic stunt.
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Prospect of drilling roils political waters
Washington Post, David A. Fahrenthold, 7.15.08
A new push in Washington to increase offshore oil and natural-gas drilling has intrigued politicians and alarmed environmentalists in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, where the ocean has been off-limits to exploration for 19 years.
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No tax credit, no solar power
Greentech Media, 7.14.08
Spanish owned Abengoa Solar would suspend its plans to build a concentrating solar-thermal plant and a mirror manufacturing plant in the United States if the federal government doesn’t extend a package of investment tax credits for eight years, a company official said Monday.
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Alarm on carbon trading scheme
The Age (Australia), Chris Hammer & Michelle Grattan, 7.15.08
ONE of the world’s best-known economists, Jeffrey Sachs, has warned Australia against using an emissions trading scheme to tackle climate change, saying it would never win global support.
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Heedless rush to oil shale
Washington Post, Ken Salazar, 7.15.08
To hear Bush touting Western oil shale as the answer to $4 per gallon gasoline, as he did again yesterday in the Rose Garden, you would think it was 1908 . . . or 1920 . . . or 1945 . . . or 1974. Every couple of decades over the past century, the immense reserves of the oily rock under Colorado and Utah reemerge as the great hope for our energy future.
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