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The United States should start taking lessons from Canada regarding oil development and its relationship to a pro-growth regulatory and tax structure. Canadian production of oil sands in northern Alberta is expected to reach 4.1 million barrels a day by 2020, up from last year’s production level of 1.6 million barrels per day. This area in Canada is the world’s third largest crude oil resource.[i] Unlike the United …

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Published // May 29, 2012
Author // Daniel Simmons
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Canada, NEPA

Reality Check: Obama’s Clean Coal Claims Analysis Coal

According to White House energy adviser Heather Zichal, the Obama administration still sees a future for coal. She also said that the administration wasn’t “singing ‘Kumbaya’” with the natural gas industry and was committed to seeing coal burned “in a more environmentally friendly way.”[i] But what does that mean and how do we reach that point?

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President Obama supposedly has an “all-of-the-above” energy policy that is …

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Published // May 24, 2012
Author // IER
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clean coal, clean energy standard, coal energy, Heather Zichal, Obama Administration

There He Goes Again: Paul Krugman Invents Solyndra “Facts” Analysis Solar

Paul Krugman is a Nobel-winning economist with expertise on international trade, yet he has a disturbing habit of pontificating with confidence on matters where he is either deliberately misleading or is simply ignorant of the basic facts. I have previously documented this habit when Krugman commented on the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, and more recently when he carelessly repeated “facts” about mercury emissions that were obviously nonsense to anyone with common …

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