The Deluge Continues
Innovative drilling techniques, as explored in our March/April print issue, are remaking the geopolitical map in unpredictable ways.
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The Energy Debate We Aren’t Having
The energy boom has the nation mired in chatter about a burgeoning job market, or panicked over certain environmental destruction. Instead, we should be asking: To whom will go the spoils of this bonanza, and on whose shoulders will the risks fall?
The Deluge
Rapidly advancing technologies are opening up astonishing sources of oil and gas all over the world. We are entering a new era of fossil fuels that is reshaping global economics and politics—and the planet.
Why Can’t Obama Articulate His Energy Strategy?
The president's all-of-the-above approach to oil, gas, coal, wind, solar and everything else has been comprehensive, but incomprehensible.
Maybe A Little Less Dictatorship In Our Tanks
Here’s a seemingly obscure bureaucratic decision that could have big moral implications. Yesterday the SEC (Securities Exchange Commission)…
Surfers and Fracking
Surfer Chadd Konig first gained national attention when he paddled 315 miles from Santa Barbara, California to Mexico…
Gulf Coast Oil Platforms: Save the Rigs?
A federal program urges the fast removal of “idle iron” oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. But in an unexpected twist, some environmentalists want the rigs to remain as a home for fish.
Steve Coll’s Choppy Portrait of ExxonMobil
Despite its tomes of good data, a University of Houston oil-industry historian finds Steve Coll’s “Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power” leaves us wanting more.
Burning Ice: The Next Energy Boom?
Oil companies and governments around the world are examining how to uncage huge amounts of methane gas locked up in undersea ice.