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- Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow
- Big Bets on the Niobrara Shale
- Bakken / Three Forks Horizontal Wells Look-up
- Aurora Borealis Live Broadcast
- The Global Energy Boom
- Glaciers Help High-Latitude Mountains Grow Taller
- Higher Taxes on the Oil and Gas Industry?
- BP Well is Now Plugged
| Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:36 PM PDT “Snowmelt in the Colorado River basin is occurring earlier, reducing runoff and the amount of crucial water available downstream. A new study shows this is due to increased dust caused by human activities in the region during the past 150 years.” – Quoted from the NASA news release.  |
| Big Bets on the Niobrara Shale Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:49 PM PDT Companies in parts of Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska are working to lease land above the Niobrara Shale. Early results suggest that it will yield a lot of oil through horizontal drilling, similar to the Bakken Shale of North Dakota.  |
| Bakken / Three Forks Horizontal Wells Look-up Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:46 PM PDT The North Dakota Oil and Gas Division has an online query system that allows you to look-up production and location information for Bakken / Three Forks Horizontal wells by producing zone.  |
| Aurora Borealis Live Broadcast Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:45 PM PDT “AuroraMAX is a five-year educational and public outreach initiative that features live broadcast of the Northern Lights from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The project is designed to raise awareness of the science of the Northern Lights, and how the Sun's relationship with Earth can affect our daily lives.” Photos of Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis.  |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:18 PM PDT According to an article on Bloomberg.com: Over the next 20, years global economic growth and rising incomes will produce rapid growth in the demand for energy. This rising demand must be supported by fossil fuels because the growth in renewable energy capacity will probably not be fast enough.  |
| Glaciers Help High-Latitude Mountains Grow Taller Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:18 PM PDT “Glaciers can help actively growing mountains become higher by protecting them from erosion, according to a University of Arizona-led research team. The finding is contrary to the conventional view of glaciers as powerful agents of erosion that carve deep fjords and move massive amounts of sediment down mountains. Mountains grow when movements of the Earth’s [...]  |
| Higher Taxes on the Oil and Gas Industry? Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:01 PM PDT A poll conducted by the American Petroleum Institute suggests that 2/3 of American voters are against raising taxes on the oil and gas industry.  |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2010 07:40 AM PDT The Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico has been plugged from the top and plugged from the bottom. It has been pressure tested and should now be killed.  |
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