• Climate Change

Energy And Transportation Sectors Feel Ripple Effects of Coronavirus – Will There Be Climate Benefits?

March 19, 2020

• Bakken crude
• Citi
• COVID-19
• diesel
• fracking
• jet fuel
• JP Morgan
• oil and gas
• Permian Basin

Oil and gas producers are being impacted by the spread of COVID-19 as Conoco-Phillips has canceled the travel of hundreds of workers who shuttle up to the oil fields on the North Slope of Alaska while workers currently there work an additional week, and in North Dakota the oil and gas commission is considering banning operators from either selling more unwanted Bakken crude oil or even forcing them to abandon wells completely.

Why This Matters:  The up and down sides of the scrambled new world order are coming into focus.

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• Sustainability

Toxic Blooms Have Energy Potential

August 15, 2019

• algae
• algae blooms
• biofuel
• fossil fuels
• Gulf of Mexico
• jet fuel

We often write about the damaging impacts of algal blooms found in the ocean and in lakes that are fouling beaches and coastal waters, not to mention drinking water in certain areas.   But algae have the potential to be used as fuel for everything from delivery trucks to warplanes and ships, according to author Ruth Kassinger in an opinion piece in The Boston Globe. –

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