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Gale Norton: Was She a Shill for Shell on Shale?

September 22, 2009 By Chase Huntley

Oil shale. Courtesy DOE.

A remarkable news item surfaced this past week that Gale Norton, President George W. Bush’s first Secretary of the Interior from 2001-2006, is under a federal criminal probe due to her potentially inappropriate, unethical, and illegal relationship with Royal Dutch Shell over the federal lands that a Shell subsidiary was awarded for oil shale development when Norton was Secretary. Read more

Laying a strong foundation for renewable energy

April 6, 2009 By Chase Huntley

You've no doubt heard about the progress Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has made in reversing bad Bush administration public lands policy. Read more

Oil shale offers little more than a hoax to taxpayers

March 9, 2009 By Chase Huntley

In the wake of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s actions to restore science and good stewardship to the federal government’s oil shale and oil and gas leasing programs, several groups ― many with connections to oil and gas companies ― continue to sound a false alarm that such steps will lead us toward a greater dependence on foreign energy sources. Such claims could not be further from the truth and serve only as a means to divide Americans to advance the aims of special interests such as the fossil fuel industry. Read more

Environmental damage control: Which Bush policies should Obama scrap first?

January 27, 2009 By Kathy Westra

Washington is abuzz right now with talk of how the new Obama administration can undo some of the environmental damage done by their predecessors in the White House. There’s so much to be done, and everyone’s asking where to start. Read more

Oil Shale: setting the rules of the road before there’s a road

November 19, 2008 By Chase Huntley

Mount Garfield oil shale. Photo by Doc Searls.

French satirist Voltaire once cautioned against hasty action saying, “Burn not your house to frighten away the mice.” Pushing a scorched Earth energy policy during its last days in office, the Bush Administration is prematurely rushing toward commercial leasing and production of oil shale resources in the Rocky Mountain West. The Department of the Interior Nov. Read more