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October 1, 2010

Cuba
Regulating Oil Drilling in Cuba

Cliff Krauss’s otherwise excellent article in the New York Times yesterday on the safety risks from Cuban oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico had one big and important omission: it said nothing about …

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

June 20, 2012

Fossil Fuels
The Odd Politics of Drilling on Public Lands

I’m in Ohio this week talking to people about the Utica shale boom. I’ll have more to say later, but right now, I want to share an interesting bit of one conversation I had yesterday. I was talking …

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

May 13, 2015

Fossil Fuels
The Environmental and Climate Stakes in Arctic Oil Drilling

On Monday, the Obama administration gave Shell conditional permission to move forward with Arctic oil drilling. The New York Times captures a common sentiment well in identifying this as a “tricky in…

Oil Drilling Arctic Environment Climate_5132015
Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

January 8, 2013

Fossil Fuels
Drilling into the American Energy Boom, in Four Charts

One interesting feature of the U.S. hydrocarbon boom is the widening gap between the industry’s interest in drilling for oil and other liquids versus dry natural gas. It’s all about economics: the di…

Drilling into the American Energy Boom, in Four Charts
Blog Post by Blake Clayton Energy, Security, and Climate

May 10, 2010

Fossil Fuels
Are Oil Sands Better for the Environment than Offshore Drilling?

The Canadian Press reports that Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice is using the Deepwater Horizon debacle to make the case for the Alberta oil sands: “I think it’s always been clear that the…

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate