By Rick Manning Why is opening up America’s natural energy resources and defeating an environmental movement that has massive wealth, a pliant media and the capacity to play on emotional heart strings, the most important domestic question facing our nation? The answer is that cheap, abundant energy […]
By Paul Driesson “We’re from the Earth Guardians group, and we’re working on fracking and how it’s going to affect our future and our health. So we wrote this song for all the gas companies that are putting their profits ahead of our future.” With […]
By Rick Manning It is the story that just keeps getting better and better for free marketers. The state of North Dakota has now passed Alaska to become the second largest oil producing state in the nation. The Bakken Oil Field, which covers the northwest portion of the […]
By Duggan Flanakin and Craig Rucker Four-plus years into the Obama Administration, the President continues to hide behind administrative agencies and “studies” regarding his true intentions on the Keystone XL Pipeline. This vital link between Canadian oil and U.S. refineries would bring jobs and prosperity […]
By Rick Manning The positive and negative impacts of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) will be examined by a special working group within the House Resources Committee . The goal of the working group is to seek answers to the following questions: How is ESA success defined? How do we […]
Within hours of a catastrophic tornado hitting Oklahoma, resulting in at least 24 deaths, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took to the floor of the Senate to blame “Republicans run[ning] off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings.” He claimed “cyclones in Oklahoma” were caused by supposed man-made climate change driven by carbon emissions. There’s only one […]
By Paul Driessen Beekeeping is big business, and everyone loves honey and foods made possible by pollination. But “colony collapse disorder” threatens bees and crop pollination in many areas. CCD and other bee die-offs are nothing new. What we now call colony collapse was first […]
By Paul Driessen The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deepwater drilling, 3-dimension and 4-D seismic (the ability to visualize 3-D […]
The process of hydraulic fracturing has turned the state of North Dakota into the third largest oil producing state in the nation with the expectation that it will grow to surpass the state of Alaska shortly. It has caused once oil rich areas in west Texas […]
A $40,000.00 portrait of the former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has been finished. NRD is hosting a caption contest. Comment either on this post, or the FB posting to enter the contest. The winner will have the picture published and promoted by NRD along with a link to their blog or personal website. Contest […]
