For the first time in many decades, there is a sense of hope and optimism for economic growth and development in South Sudan. I want to tell you why. The landlocked country in East-Central Africa is one of the poorest in the world. Around 4 out of 5 of its people live in poverty, and 70 percent of […]
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Fracking — a procedure to extract natural gas from earth — made headlines recently after Vice President Mike Pence and Democrat vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris brought it up during their debate. Leading up to the 2020 elections, both Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and Senator Harris, on various occasions, have remarked that they will end
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California just experienced a catastrophic loss from the COIVD-19 impact on the economy, as one of its major refineries, Marathon Martinez, has just announced it will be idled indefinitely. With airlines and cruise ships virtually shut down, and vehicle transportation at an all-time low, the demand for fuels and petroleum derivative products manufactured from petroleum,
In the wake of drone attacks over the weekend on two of Saudi Arabia’s top oil processing facilities, oil prices shot up worldwide, causing stock prices to fall. MarketWatch reported, “The attacks are believed to be part of a continuing conflict between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia,” but many experts think Iran is likely
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At a conference at the Vatican Saturday, Pope Francis told oil executives “climate change” could “destroy civilization.” The Pope’s warning ensues from his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, in which he called climate change “a global problem with grave implications” and “one of the principal challenges facing humanity.” He warned that it would most gravely impact the poor,
Ken Cohen at ExxonMobil has just published an article summarizing some of the basic things we know about the safety of “fracking” (hydraulic fracturing in drilling for oil and natural gas). The gist: It’s not a significant source of either air or water pollution, and its record, good from the start, has been improving consistently.
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Dear Lord, Thank you for giving us a planet that has such bountiful sources of energy within it. We thank you for the natural gas that keeps our homes warm, for the oil that brings food to our tables, and for the coal that gives us electricity. We pray that you would increase our wisdom
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The fossil fuel industry should be dismantled because it is as bad as human slavery.” That’s exactly what Kathleen Henry, president of a non-profit environmental law firm argued in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She went on: Continuing to use fossil fuels will, in fact, lead to economic collapse from the consequences of climate change. But
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