Energy News from The Wilderness Society

Discussing renewable energy and brownfields in New Orleans

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:38:17 +0000

I’m in The Big Easy today to engage in a national dialog on redeveloping brownfields for renewable energy. (Brownfields are parcels of land that have been previously used for industrial purposes). The Environmental Protection Agency, under the leadership of Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus, is doing some exciting things to capitalize on this remarkable opportunity.

New report outlines broken promises in America's Arctic

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:30:53 +0000

Proponents of oil development in Alaska have been making promises, and breaking them, for decades. More than thirty years of industrial activity in Alaska have demonstrated that oil production is inherently a dirty business. Despite the industry’s best intentions to minimize impacts, environmental and social effects are accumulating and resulting in lasting harm to ecosystems and indigenous cultures.

Oil and gas leases pulled back! Wyoming’s Adobe Town gets reprieve

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:45:56 +0000

There is a place in south-central Wyoming’s Red Desert region that is so wild and pristine the state designated the area as "Very Rare or Uncommon" back in 2007. While locals recognized the major significance of this spectacular wilderness and spiritual place, Adobe Town was facing a serious threat from a proposal by the Bureau of Land Management to open the area up to oil and gas development.

Oil shale investigation is encouraging

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:09:47 +0000

The Department of the Interior is calling for an investigation of a Bush-era deal on oil shale leases that grossly favored industry over American taxpayers.

The investigation, announced Oct. 20, will look into excessively low royalty rates and other benefits that were tacked onto oil shale research-and-development leases in the final days of Bush administration.