By: Julian Harris Gibson Breaking News / Photo: ABCNews.com Reports have just surfaced about a platform explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. The oil rig is located 20 nautical miles off the shore of Grand Isle, LA and owned and operated by Black Elk Energy Co. According to Coast Gaurd spokesperson Carlos […]
Letter to the Editor, BP may finally be ready to face the music about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Reports are buzzing that BP is negotiating a deal with Attorney General Eric Holder in Louisiana. This deal involves BP officially taking responsibility for the largest manmade environmental disaster in American […]
By: Julian Harris Gibson The latest IEA report forecasts America will surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia in oil production by 2020. Recent discoveries of oil reserves off the US continental shelf may make the United States the world’s leader in oil exports very soon. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), reports America imports about 20 percent of its energy […]
By: Julian Harris Gibson Sandy left us powerless, cold, out in the rain, and frustrated. As soon as we were finally getting back on our feet and ready to rebound from the lack of energy, gas and food–Athena came to town. Athena was a typical Nor’ Easter snowstorm that we should expect this time of […]
By: Julian Harris Gibson Legislators in Georgia are making great strides to bring solar power to the mainstream. There is a current push in the state legislator to end Georgia Power‘s monopoly over the market and allow competitors to offer solar power directly to consumers. As expected, the utility giant wants a different program set […]
Photos:AP By Julian Harris Gibson With the lines for gasoline growing several miles long in New York and New Jersey, skeptics can no longer ignore the call for energy independence. If the special interests would stop fighting the competition of electric cars and biodiesel, Americans may just be able to get off the gas line and get […]
By Julian Harris Gibson For all those who doubt wind power‘s profitability, I think they should take a trip to California, Iowa or North Dakota. Midwestern states are in what is called the flat lands of America. These states have the perfect geographic location to build a viable power grid supported at least in part […]
