"Shell Halts Arctic Drilling Right After It Began"
"A day after it began drilling its first well in the Arctic Ocean, Shell has been forced to temporarily abandon the work because of sea ice moving into the area."
Source: Green/NYT, 09/11/2012
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"Eric Latino Is the 'Green Ambassador' of Drag Racing"
"If you get to talking to Eric Latino about his 1969 Pro Modfied Camaro, which he'll be racing this weekend in the 'Thunder by the Beach' drag-racing meeting at the Grand Bend Motorplex, he might tell you that race cars are painted almost any colour except green."
Source: Toronto Star, 09/10/2012
"Shell Begins Oil, Gas Drilling Off Alaska Coast"
"ANCHORAGE -- More than four years after Royal Dutch Shell paid $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea, a company vessel on Sunday morning sent a drill bit into the ocean floor, beginning preliminary work on an exploratory well 70 miles off the northwest coast of Alaska."
Source: AP, 09/10/2012
California: "Too Few State Oil Refinery-Safety Checks"
"California regulators have not been conducting the intensive workplace-safety inspections of Chevron's Richmond plant and the state's 14 other oil refineries that federal standards call for, a Chronicle investigation shows."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 09/07/2012
"Appeals Court Upholds Salazar's Decision To Cancel 77 Utah Leases"
"The long legal battle over Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's controversial 2009 decision to cancel 77 leases near pristine federal lands in Utah may have finally reached its end."
Source: EnergyWire, 09/07/2012
"Obama: Climate Change Not a Hoax, Extreme Weather Not a Joke"
"President Obama, often shy of turning climate change into a marquee campaign issue, last night made a full-throated endorsement of climate action, calling out Governor Romney and the Republicans as disbelievers of reality, and jokesters about a real threat. He also explicitly linked this summer's extreme weather to global warming."
Source: Mother Jones, 09/07/2012
"Texas Sees Rising Tide of Property-Rights Cases"
"The case of Julia Trigg Crawford versus the Keystone XL oil pipeline will soon return to the headlines."
Source: Texas Tribune, 09/06/2012
"Critics Say Canada Softens Coal-Fired Power Rules"
"Canada's government finalized much-anticipated regulations on Wednesday for phasing out the country's old coal-fired power plants in a move critics condemned as a watering down of earlier proposals to cut carbon emissions."
Source: Reuters, 09/06/2012
"10m Pounds of Maple Syrup Have Mysteriously Gone Missing in Canada"
"The province of Quebec is responsible for 75 percent of the maple syrup produced in the ENTIRE WORLD. So it’s no surprise that they keep a strategic maple syrup reserve -- hot weather ruins the volume and taste of the syrup crop, and pancake fiends can get ugly, so it pays to have backup. Which is all very good planning, until more than a quarter of the syrup nest egg disappears."
Source: Grist, 09/05/2012
"Iraq Oil Exports Hit 30-Year High"
"BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Oil Ministry says crude oil exports have averaged 2.565 million barrels a day in August, the highest level in more than three decades."
Source: AP, 09/05/2012
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