Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Monday, May 29, 2017
What we've been talking about for awhile now: the increasing criminalization of protest, the militarization of policing, and the corruption of democracy and rule of law through privatized (paramilitary) policing: Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”
All of which offers more support for our thesis about the inherent (and increasing) criminality of the fossil fuel industry. More troubling, we see the blurred lines between public law enforcement and these private mercenary contractors. Troubling signs of the lengths that the fossil fuel industry and those sectors of law enforcement without the principle to question them will go to defend the interests of private fossil fuel capital.
Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”
See also, Ruth Hopkins' earlier report on private security at NoDAPL: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40681-footing-the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army
Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”
See also, Ruth Hopkins' earlier report on private security at NoDAPL: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40681-footing-the-15-million-bill-for-the-dakota-access-pipeline-s-private-army
Friday, May 26, 2017
Big Payoff After Blackstone Courted a Saudi Prince
Big Payoff After Blackstone Courted a Saudi Prince
Or, how oil dollars can be used to make more money off of the US public when we hand over infrastructure projects to Schwarzman's hedge fund and the Saudi princes....
Or, how oil dollars can be used to make more money off of the US public when we hand over infrastructure projects to Schwarzman's hedge fund and the Saudi princes....
Monday, May 22, 2017
Friday, May 19, 2017
The Grid: Ameren seeks special rates for a steel smelter, so that people can subsidize dirty coal as well as steel investors. Greitens, our governor, is in bed with the utility. They want to gut the Public Service Commission, which already is relatively weak. Schaaf, McCaskill respond to Governor's call for special session
Schaaf, McCaskill respond to Governor's call for special session
And more on this:
http://www.missourinet.com/2017/05/18/poplar-bluff-state-senator-outlines-his-position-on-norandasteel-issue/
And more on this:
http://www.missourinet.com/2017/05/18/poplar-bluff-state-senator-outlines-his-position-on-norandasteel-issue/
Monday, May 15, 2017
Dakota Access Pipeline security arrested. - Native Daily Network
The legacy of wars for oil in the MiddleEast: Militarized men w PTSD now charged with securing oil back home #NoDAPL https://t.co/j7yzrOsfSt— Energy Politics (@energy_politics) May 15, 2017
Dakota Access Pipeline security arrested. - Native Daily Network
Friday, May 12, 2017
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Monday, May 8, 2017
Exam review: How does #hegemony work? #coercion and #consent: Oklahoma Governor Signs Anti-Protest Law Imposing Huge Fines on “Conspirator” Organizations
Oklahoma Governor Signs Anti-Protest Law Imposing Huge Fines on “Conspirator” Organizations
By Alleen Brown, The Intercept... (click image for full story)
A STATUTE AIMED at suppressing protests against oil and gas pipelines has been signed into law in Oklahoma, as a related bill advances through the state legislature. The two bills are part of a nationwide trend in anti-protest laws meant to significantly increase legal penalties for civil disobedience.
By Alleen Brown, The Intercept... (click image for full story)
A STATUTE AIMED at suppressing protests against oil and gas pipelines has been signed into law in Oklahoma, as a related bill advances through the state legislature. The two bills are part of a nationwide trend in anti-protest laws meant to significantly increase legal penalties for civil disobedience.
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| Photo: Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP (via The Intercept) |
Friday, May 5, 2017
Exam review, The #Grid: As utilities embrace DERs, pilot projects emerge as key element of compromise
As utilities embrace DERs, pilot projects emerge as key element of compromise
As in Bakke's book, see here a couple of key points:
1) Utilities are generally reticent to change ("first to be second")
2) Issues of incoporating new technologies slowly
3) Regional variation (NE and Cali most advanced, the rest laggards)
4) Political and policy challenges
5) Importance of regional and state level grassroots action and pressure
As in Bakke's book, see here a couple of key points:
1) Utilities are generally reticent to change ("first to be second")
2) Issues of incoporating new technologies slowly
3) Regional variation (NE and Cali most advanced, the rest laggards)
4) Political and policy challenges
5) Importance of regional and state level grassroots action and pressure
The Paris Agreements aren't enough, but they are something, and Trump is dead wrong: via Timmons Roberts: From Harrisburg come two profound misconceptions about the Paris Agreement | Brookings Institution
Timmons Roberts
Highlights:
“The United States pays billions of dollars while China, Russia, and India have contributed and will contribute nothing.”
This statement is misguided and misleading. India and China are industrializing countries. China’s emissions have leveled off over the past three years, 13 years ahead of the deadline they agreed as part of their Paris pledge and with per capita emissions one-third that of the U.S. India’s are still rising, but from a per capita level of emissions one-tenth of the U.S. and with per capita incomes only 3 percent of the U.S. Both countries have invested massively in expanding renewable energy with generation capacity that now surpasses the U.S. by a large margin. Meanwhile, the U.S. remains by far the country most responsible for today’s carbon pollution....
Trump’s claim appears to draw from a Heritage Foundation report, which looks narrowly at the costs of climate action, without factoring in the enormous cost of doing nothing. This oversight is crucial: If we don’t act on climate change quickly, rising seas will cost hundreds of billions to hold back from damaging coastal cities. Fires, droughts, and more intense hurricanes will continue to drive up disaster relief costs. The 2006 Stern Review back pioneered the economics of trying to understand those costs, and they are huge. Sir Nicholas Stern and his co-authors found that not acting to prevent climate change was far more expensive than acting on climate change, and the point has been confirmed repeatedly since then.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Exam Review: #Oiligarchy: They say I'm a conspiracy theorist, but the last week of class I lectured on the Koch influence on government, and the ideas of regulatory capture and oiligarchy. Today's news, here it is.
Fossil fuel advocate tapped to lead DOE's renewables, efficiency office
At Department of Energy, person named to head up renewables division is also formerly of the "Koch-funded Institute for Energy Research,"
Read the whole article, via Utility Dive
At Department of Energy, person named to head up renewables division is also formerly of the "Koch-funded Institute for Energy Research,"
Read the whole article, via Utility Dive
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
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