Organized Crime Penetrates Energy Sector
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042308R.shtml
Randall Mikkelsen of Reuters reports: "International organized crime groups control 'significant positions' in global energy and strategic materials and are expanding holdings in the US materials sector, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday."
James Hansen | Timeline for Irreversible Climate Change
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042308EA.shtml
In YaleGlobal Online, James Hansen writes: "Government 'energy information' departments parrot industry. Partly because of disinformation, the major efforts needed to develop alternative energies have not been made. The reality of limited supply forces prices higher. Eventually, sales volume will begin to decline, but fossil-fuel moguls will make more money than ever."
Paul Roberts | Seven Myths of Energy Independence
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042308EB.shtml
According to Paul Roberts in Mother Jones, "Thoughtful observers have been trying to debunk energy independence since Nixon's time. And yet the dream refuses to die, in no small part because it offers political cover for a whole range of controversial initiatives.... In the doublespeak of today's energy lexicon, says Julia Bovey of the Natural Resources Defense Council, 'energy independence' has become code for 'drill it all.'"
Melting Methane
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042308EC.shtml
Volker Mrasek, Der Spiegel, reports: "Researchers have found alarming evidence that the frozen Arctic floor has started to thaw and release long-stored methane gas. The results could be a catastrophic warming of the earth, since methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide."
A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
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