By Paul Sankey
Published on January 20, 2021 at 9:24 AM
Your correspondent listened to a loooong podcast yesterday hosting Abigail Hopper, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association. Hopper was previously head of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM, big for offshore wind development, and of course offshore drilling). Before that, she was director of the Maryland Energy Administration and an adviser to former Gov. Martin O’Malley. As I learned at quite some expense of time, she was once a […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on January 19, 2021 at 9:00 AM
A scoop by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) over the long weekend regarding the Biden Administration’s plan to rescind the Keystone XL pipeline permit got everyone excited… except me, who groaned. The issue is symptomatic of the worst of US energy policy. New pipelines are environmentally friendly. They serve to replace old pipelines and/or train transport that is less efficient and environmentally damaging. While opposing specific pipelines has become the heroic battle of the environmentalist, […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on January 13, 2021 at 9:00 AM
Really strong relative day for oils yesterday, in fact all energy is running as the Biden administration battles its way to the inauguration. I’m driving my son Max to Emory for college on 21th January, through Washington, and one plan was to drop in and see the action on Inauguration Day, a moment in history and all, but DC has been declared a Federal Emergency Zone for the event and we figure that two mysterious […]
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