Vineyard Wind drinks oil! Each wind turbine generator houses 4,887 gallons of oil – Stands 814 feet tall, roughly 2.7 times taller than the Statue of Liberty
“Each GE Haliade-X 13 MW turbine has a 220-meter (722-foot) rotor, 107-meter (351-foot) blades, and is 248 meters (814 feet) tall – roughly 2.7 times taller than the Statue of Liberty.” And, Each Vineyard Wind WTG houses 4,887 gals of oil. pic.twitter.com/XpbYvaMex0 — Barbara Durkin (@Barbarajdurkin) May 7, 2025 # Background: Watch: ‘Juice’ debunks claims […]
Earth Day Reminder: Fossil Fuels Feed the World
Earth Day Reminder: Fossil Fuels Feed the World By Vijay Jayaraj Amid Earth Day’s impassioned calls to save the planet for future generations, a disquieting irony emerges: Efforts to eradicate fossil fuels – a linchpin of modern agro-industrial systems – risk severing the very supply chains that make global food security possible. From famine to abundance: […]
Biden administration lacked the authority to cancel oil and gas leases in Alaska refuge, judge rules
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-arctic-refuge-leases-judge-7a72febfea6cf57f2081a98799d973fc By BECKY BOHRER JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge in Alaska on Tuesday ruled the Biden administration lacked the authority to cancel seven oil and gas leases that had been issued for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason said terms of a 2017 tax law that set the stage for […]
Trump calls for company building Keystone XL Pipeline to return to America & ‘get it built’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-company-building-keystone-xl-pipeline-return-america-get-built Biden revoked the permit for TC Energy Corp.’s Keystone XL energy pipeline via executive order hours after his inauguration By Stepheny Price Fox News President Donald Trump turned his attention to the Keystone XL Pipeline on Monday evening, calling for the company building it to “come back to America, and get it built — NOW!” Trump said he […]
This won’t end well: California State Government Now Wants to Take Over the Oil Refineries
California Now Wants to Take Over the Oil Refineries California is one of the most oil and gas-rich places in the world. But the hostility of its state government is literally driving local producers to leave. Chevron is leaving the state where it was founded 145 years ago and moving to Texas. Phillips 66 is […]
Trump’s Interior Reopens 625M Acres For Oil, Gas Drilling, Slashes Biden’s Climate Policies
Trump’s Interior Reopens 625M Acres For Oil, Gas Drilling, Slashes Biden’s Climate Policies by Thomas Catenacci Interior Secretary Burgum orders review of Biden’s oil lease cancellations The Trump administration is reopening oil and gas leasing across hundreds of millions of acres of federal lands and waters that the Biden administration locked up. [emphasis, links added] In […]
IEA (International Energy Agency): How the agency went from being an honest broker to the Paris Agreement’s ‘armed wing’
Atop that list is the International Energy Agency. As French President Emmanuel Macron recently said, the IEA is now “the armed wing for implementing the Paris Agreement” on climate change. …
