Banning Industrial Sand Mining Would Be a Mistake
Silica sand mining can bring high-paying jobs to southern Minnesota with minimal threat of environmental damage.
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Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Isaac Orr: Introducing Bette Grande to Energy Team
Research Fellow Isaac Orr introduces the latest addition to The Heartland Institute’s team, Research Fellow Bette Grande. Bette is a former legislator from North Dakota who served in the ND legislature for nearly two decades. During that time she specialized in pension reform and energy issues.
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Isaac Orr “Will Fracking Make My Water Catch On Fire?”
Isaac Orr, a Research Fellow for energy and environmental policy gave a talk on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and frac sand mining in Appleton, Wisconsin as part of the Fox Valley Conservative Forum series.
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Government
Deception, Agenda and Folly Drive Latest Obama EPA Anti-hydrocarbon Rules. Are Farmers Next?
First they came for the coal mining and power plant industry, and most people did not speak out because they didn’t rely on coal, accepted Environmental Protection Agency justifications at face value, or thought EPA’s war on coal would benefit them.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jon Haubert: Responsible Energy Development in Colorado
Jon Haubert from the group Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED) discusses the role that CRED plays in helping the general public understand the process of hydraulic fracturing in a balanced manner that weighs the costs of developing oil and natural gas against the benefits derived from them.
Isaac Orr Discusses NY Fracking Ban on Pennsylvania Farm Country Radio
While the ban is considered to be a political success for Governor Cuomo, Orr explains how the state is going to miss out on economic opportunity and tax revenue.
Andrew Cuomo’s Fracking Psuedo-Science
What do Bigfoot and New York’s ban on fracking ban have in common? The evidence supporting the existence of both is equally (un)credible.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – David Quast: Hydraulic Fracturing Ban in New York
Research Fellow Isaac Orr and his special guest David Quast from Energy In Depth discuss the flaws in the “science” used to justify the ban, the economic impact it will have for the citizens of New York, and the broader implications this ban could potentially have on the industry in other states.
Fracking is Fundamental
Responding to the announcement by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that the state would ban fracking, Ms. Noon joined others, bringing their expertise to bear on a topic that remains a concern only because environmentalist enemies of energy in America continue to lie about it every chance they get.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast
HEARTLAND DAILY PODCAST – Jessica Sena: Sierra Club’s most deceptive videos ever made on Fracking
Heartland Institute Research Fellow Isaac Orr and Jessica Sena discuss a new Sierra Club video “Fracking 101,” which by many accounts is one of the most deceptive videos ever made on the topic.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
How Obama and His Environmental Base Are Planning to Eradicate the Oil and Gas Industry
If your crony capitalist money can buy the government regulations you want and reroute the federal treasury into your anti-fossil fuel agenda, you get to keep your taxpayer-fed crony capitalism and anybody who survives gets the socialist shreds.
Take Your Pick of Lies About Ozone, Methane or Mercury
Is it surprising that the Environmental Protection Agency continues to tell big fat lies about anything it wants to ban, but is reluctant to show the “science” on which the bans are based?
Stop That Fracking Pipeline!
All this fuss over one buried gas transmission line, a minor addition to the 200,000 miles of such pipelines already transporting natural gas in the United States. The county has electric power lines that are more visually obtrusive and carry more soil erosion risk. We apparently accept those intrusions because we all plug into the wall sockets. The shale gas pipeline, however, will initially carry most of its gas to the cities of coastal Virginia and North Carolina, so it is resented here. Big mistake.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Frac Sand Study: Lots of Scare, Little Science
Make no mistake, everything we do has an environmental impact, and frac sand mining is no exception. But to exaggerate the costs and ignore the benefits is dishonest. Wisconsin can take reasonable precautions to develop frac sand resources in an environmentally responsible way and continue to enjoy the benefits of creating thousands of high-paying jobs throughout the state.
Air Monitoring Data at Frac Sand Facilities Not Scary
Halloween is upon us, and once again opponents of frac sand mining are trying to scare people in Wisconsin and other parts of the Upper Midwest by producing one-sided studies based on unscientific, anecdotal evidence (which is subject to cherry-picking and other biases) to back their claims. Fortunately, the scariest claims these organizations have made about the potential public health impacts of frac sand mining are not supported by the scientific data, and in many cases the data suggest just the opposite.
The “Malaise” Has Returned
The joke is that Jimmy Carter is happy that Barack Obama has replaced him as the worst President of the modern era. It is a supreme irony that Obama’s campaign theme was “Hope and Change” when Americans have lost a great deal of hope about their personal futures and the only change they want is to see Obama gone from office.
Shouldn’t We Be Fighting a War on Terrorism, not on Fossil Fuels?
“You are responsible for President Obama’s re-election,” I told 150 folks from the oil and gas industry —most of whom were conservative Republicans. I spoke to them on October 15 in San Angelo, TX. A reporter covering the event wrote that I “stunned the crowd by telling them they were largely responsible for getting the president re-elected, and asking them if they knew how they had helped.” He continued: “The room was very quiet for several moments as Noon waited to see if anyone would volunteer an answer.”
GAO Report Confirms: States Better Fracking Regulators than EPA
A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirms what many small-government environmentalists have been saying for years: States are more effective at regulating the disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing operations than is the Environmental Protection Agency.
Environment/Energy · Regulation · Science
A Victory for Our Energy Independence: Cove Point Gas Plant Is Approved
Victories are hard won and often seem few and far between on the free market energy and environment front. We spend much of our time, bemoaning and battling bad policies, regulations,[…]
Colorado Dems Frack Backtrack is all about November
In June, in a sparsely populated county in northern New Mexico, a primary electionsurprisingly unseated an incumbent County Commissioner. No one seemed to notice. But, apparently, high-ranking Democrats to the north were paying attention.
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