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Are Biofuels Really a Boondoggle? The Perils and Promise of Turning Plants into Gasoline

Posted on: Apr 15, 2013, Source: The Tyee

​Tea Party activists, environmentalists and petrolistas now condemn the industry in equal measure, but is there more to the story?

Meet the Tar Sands Pollution Refugees

Posted on: Mar 6, 2013, Source: The Tyee

'Gassed' by oil sands operations, families say they've been forced to evacuate.

Natural Gas Glut: Wall Street Is Driving the Shale Gas Boom Like it Did the Housing Mortgage Scandal

Posted on: Feb 25, 2013, Source: The Tyee

In an attempt to meet unrealistic financial production targets (and please Wall Street), the industry drove natural gas prices to uneconomic lows in recent years.

Disaster in the Making: Grave Warnings Issued That Keystone Pipeline Is Structurally Flawed

Posted on: Oct 5, 2012, Source: The Tyee

TransCanada is trying to get its Keystone XL pipeline approved, but a whistleblower is raising the alarm.

One Scientist's Easily Understood Theory Offers a Radically Different Vision for How We Think About Energy

Posted on: Jun 15, 2011, Source: The Tyee

Charlie Hall champions a revolutionary idea known as "energy return on energy invested." Every plant, animal and human civilization lives by EROI, he explains.

Why Our 21st Century Slave Society Can't Last

Posted on: May 29, 2011, Source: The Tyee

We're the slave masters of energy-driven gadgets that replace human labor. But don't count on it sticking around.

The Republican Who Dared Tell the Truth About America's Looming Oil Disaster

Posted on: Sep 3, 2010, Source: The Tyee

Matt Simmons didn't let the money, bullshit or arrogance surrounding the oil industry cloud his judgment.