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Source: Southern California air board puts new restrictions on urban oil fields - LA Times We have seen a spate of complaints about air quality near our urban oil fields here in southern California... 
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A complete guide to the oil price crash.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is a great general overview of oil pricing fluctuations. It does not prove a curb-notes version or overly simplify this important dynamic.
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Total petroleum imports fell to $23 billion, the lowest level since August 2009
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Great! Now we can buy more SUVs!
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The U.S. is now the world's largest oil producer, and some worry that falling prices could mean an industry slowdown. But with production costs also falling, drillers are unlikely to cut back soon.
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State lawmakers approved the delay in late June, and at the same time tightened up the environmental review process for fracking permits.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Our new regulations/enhanced review of fracking wells in California are being delayed slightly to make the process more unified and cohesive.
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A bill that would temporarily ban the oil and gas drilling procedure known as fracking in California was approved at its first state legislative committee hearing on Tuesday.
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Keystone XL and tar sands oil are emissions-free wonders that will do everything good you ever thought possible. (At least according to the American Petroleum Institute.) Let's take a look at the...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Ahhhhhhh....the power of deep-pocketed lobbying. The good ol' American Way!
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Let’s call fossil fuels what they are: weapons of mass destruction. And they need to be neutralized.
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LONDON (AP) - Oil company BP says it has made a "significant" discovery in the Gulf of Mexico in a well it co-owns with ConocoPhillips. BP said Wednesday that the find a...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
BP keeps on chugging along!
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A Retro Report looks at the poor planning and technological challenges that contributed to the nation’s worst oil disasters, the 1989 Exxon spill and the 2010 BP blowout.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While brief, this is a surprisingly accurate and fair summary of the Valdez spill vs Deepwater Horizon blowout.
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Here in California's thirsty farm belt, where pumpjacks nod amid neat rows of crops, it's a proposition that seems to make sense: using treated oil field wastewater to irrigate crops.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Indeed. This is the old mantra of folks: if you don't look for a problem, you won't see a problem/can't prove a problem exists.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's highest court threw out a challenge Friday to a proposed route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, even though a majority of judges agreed the landowners who sued should have won their case.…
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Environmentalists and other opponents of the pipeline have highlighted the potential for extraction and transport of crude from Canada’s tar sands to contaminate water, pollute air, and harm wildlife. But the congressional republicans, the oil industry, and other pipeline backers argue that Keystone will lead to jobs and increase oil independence as well as strengthen bonds with Canada. Er...or maybe we should say would lead to perhaps 2,000-3,000 temporary jobs for perhaps 2 years.
“Boosting American-made energy results in more American jobs and improved international relations," said Rep. Leonard Lance. "This is a winning combination for our Nation’s economy, our national security and a centerpiece in our relationship with our ally, Canada.”
Rep. Adam Smith had a different take: “Rather than focusing on Keystone XL, we should be working on bigger picture investments in clean energy and energy efficient technologies that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels that hurt our environment.”
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Monty Burns is one of the greatest all-time TV villains, his position at the center of all Springfield’s evils allowing him to embody whatever plutocratic wickedness the Simpsons’ writers want to take a whack at. This week, Monty’s all about padding his inestimable wealth with fracking, the controve
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Most Americans feel relieved when they see a drop in prices at the pump. Jason Bruns feels the opposite. A higher price of oil is good for him. He owns 10 oil wells in Kansas that produce about two barrels a day.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The view of oil production from a tea-cup per day oil producer.
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http://www.legoblockshell.org/?ytv1 We love LEGO. You love LEGO. Everyone loves LEGO. But when LEGO's halo effect is being used to sell propaganda to childre...
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LEGO has been on a roll lately, partly thanks to a popular film that helped bring the 75-year old Danish company back to the forefront of popular culture. But Greenpeace thinks something is rotten in the state of Denmark! They've made this video to try to pressure LEGO into dropping its partnership with oil company Shell.
LEGO has responded to the Greenpeace video, basically saying "Hey, don't involve us in your dispute with Shell", to which Greenpeace countered with an open letter explaining why LEGO can't have its cake and eat it too when it comes to who they implicitly promote and support (they sell a lego set that is a Shell gas station) with their toys that are used by millions of children.
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More than half of the wastewater injection wells being used by frackers in the state are within 10 miles of a recently active fault.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The data from Ohio is quite concerning. Not being a tectonic expert, I am not sure of their data. But in quick overview, the stories that started emanating from the Buckeye State about two years ago certainly seem to suggest that messing with injection wells to the magnitude that modern dense tracking operations do is not a great idea.
But no need to worry. We here in California NEVER have earthquakes.
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Facing criticism and legal trouble, companies working in the Bakken shale field said they would try to recapture more of the natural gas now burned as waste.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
A price on carbon would ensure that this pollution is at least generated for useful work/engines.
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From
ht
Last month, a Radio Disney-sponsored, oil company-funded educational program performed a series of events at 26 elementary schools across Ohio, educating students about the alleged benefits of fracking.
The program, titled Rocking in Ohio, was led by three Radio Disney staffers and was entirely funded by the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP), a lobbying group funded by oil and gas companies.
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To hear the oil industry tell it, California stands poised for an economic boom. Development of the Monterey Shale, a vast geologic formation that could hold 15.4 billion barrels of oil, will flood...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Yes. There has been much too much hype here and little evidence of mobilization in practice.
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