Feature Stories
We Have to Be Strategic About Strategic Material Production
March 17, 2022
The most important duty of government is to provide for the security of its citizens. Providing that security is a complex enterprise. Its most obvious feature is military power: providing the surface, naval, air, and space forces necessary to protect
EPA is Determined to Accelerate the Electricity Affordability Crisis
March 17, 2022
The energy crisis emanating from Europe is a wakeup call for policymakers about the importance of energy security and the delicate balancing act required by the energy transition. Europe’s energy policy missteps are now proving an invaluable example of a
Steve Milloy: The U.S. Needs to Unleash Its Full Energy Potential
March 16, 2022
It should be plain to everyone by now that there is no “green energy” Nirvana on the horizon. Trillions of dollars have been thrown at “green energy” since the 1990s, and yet we burn more fossil fuels than ever before.
San Juan Generating Station is One of the Five Phase CarbonSAFE Projects
March 16, 2022
The United States will need to inject about a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually into underground reservoirs by 2050 to meet the zero emissions goals, according to Darin Damiani, carbon storage program manager for the U.S. Department of
Demand for Minerals Used in Electric Vehicles, Wind, Solar Power a Boom for B.C.‘s Mining Industry
March 15, 2022
Exploration for minerals in B.C. needed for the world’s transition to a low-carbon future has accelerated over the past two years, as the province’s mining industry hopes to demonstrate its commitment to the environment and reconciliation with First Nations. “If
Terry Jarrett: U.S. Must Learn from Europe’s Energy Crisis
March 11, 2022
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfolds, Americans are witnessing the troubling global impacts. Oil has passed $100 a barrel, and the European Union remains beholden to Russia for almost 40 percent of its natural gas supplies. There’s a reasonable fear
Michael Stumo: If We Want to Make it All in America, We Must Start by Mining it All in America
March 9, 2022
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech came just as the United States has abruptly entered a new post-post-Cold War era. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has quickly altered the global picture — and the president acknowledged the strategic impacts.
Jim Constantopoulos: U.S. Mining a Remedy for Mineral Scarcity
March 3, 2022
The biggest problem we face with mining in the United States is we’re not doing enough of it. And that’s because of the continuing absence of a long-term mining policy that recognizes the importance of a secure domestic supply of
Biden’s Empty Promise to ‘Work Like the Devil’ on Gas Prices
February 16, 2022
During a rare press availability, President Joe Biden promised to “work like the devil” to address high gasoline prices at the pump. He said that as part of an answer in which he also admitted, “I don’t know why they
Rio and BHP Seek Resolution of U.S. Copper Mine Stand-off
February 15, 2022
After a rattling, 15-minute ride down the single deepest, and possibly most claustrophobic, lift shaft in North America, there is suddenly an eerie silence. More than two kilometres beneath Arizona’s cactus desert country, this dark hole in the ground owned
