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The Federal Register recently contained a notice that the first meeting of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling will hold its first meeting in New Orleans next Monday and Tuesday, July 12 and 13.  The meeting

Today’s New York Times article about the BP Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill carries ominous news for the domestic offshore oil and gas industry and the Houston economy.  The mandate for the commission stated that its l

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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that he is approving the 130-turbine Cape Wind project to be erected in a 24-square mile block of Nantucket Sound.  The nine-year saga for the nation's first offshore wind farm to win governmental approval to move forward with construction may be drawing to a close, but we doubt it. =>Continue Reading

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is preparing to render his decision on the fate of Cape Wind, the 130 wind turbine project to be located in the heart of Nantucket Sound off Cape Wind.  The political heat on this decision is rising as the governors of six East Coast states have come out urging the project’s approval.  They believe that the rejection of Cape Wind on visual pollut

Yesterday the venerable Financial Times editorialized about the failure of the International Civil Aviation Organization to use sound science and stronger computer models before banning the flying of airplanes in Europe due to ash from the Iceland volcano.  The editorial stated, "The blanket ban must be replaced urgently by more measured precautions, based on scientific knowledge of how much ash is actually in the atmosphere..."  It went on to say, "The wide-scale computer modelling used so far, based on satellite images, is not up to the job." =>Continue Reading