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Hydraulic fracturing fluid is nearly 99.5% water and sand.
Biofuel for Navy's "Great Green Fleet" costs around $12 million.
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A study conducted in 2009 found that for every 1 “green” job that Spain created, 2.2 jobs were destroyed elsewhere.

In his recent Huffington Post piece, Elliott Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists portrays the Institute for Energy Research (IER) and its advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), as “a front organization for the oil and gas industry.” The title of his piece says it all: “Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation.”

I founded IER in 1989 as a free-market …

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Published // May 21, 2013
Author // Robert Bradley
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AEA, Elliot Negin, IER, Robert Bradley, Union of Concerned Scientists

Feds Give Wind Farms License to Kill Analysis Wind

Besides receiving federal subsidies and other financial incentives, the wind industry is getting special treatment from the Obama Administration: wind farms are allowed to kill protected bird species. The Associated Press has found that the Obama Administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected birds, thus shielding the wind industry from liability. Further, the Obama Administration has kept the scope of the deaths …

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Published // May 20, 2013
Author // IER
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Associated Press, condors, eagles, fish and wildlife services

Proposed Fracking Rule Another Power Grab by Broken Bureaucracy hydraulic fracturing Oil

WASHINGTON D.C. — IER President Thomas Pyle released the following statement concerning the proposed federal regulations for hydraulic fracturing announced today by the Department of Interior:

“This regulation places an unnecessary additional burden on American energy producers, and ultimately on energy consumers who will pay for it in the form of higher energy prices. The rule is another power grab by the Obama Administration, which is forever seeking to fix …

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Published // May 16, 2013
Author // IER
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fracking, IER, Interior Department, Obama

ICYMI: North Dakota Proves Obama Doesn’t Get Energy Natural Gas Oil

WASHINGTON, D.C. – IER President Thomas Pyle penned an op-ed in RealClearEnergy today on the Obama administration’s failed energy policies. In the article, Pyle explains how states like North Dakota benefit from the shale boom and hydraulic fracturing, while the Obama administration continues to actively obstruct domestic energy production on federal lands:

North Dakota Proves Obama Doesn’t Get Energy
By Thomas Pyle
May 16, 2013

The Bakken and Three Forks …

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