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Will President Obama’s new drilling policy give the Arctic over to Russian domination?

Is it merely a coincidence that millions of dollars of Russian money have been laundered and forwarded to anti-fossil fuel radical environmentalists to fight exploration and development by the United States of Alaska's vast oil and gas and minerals reserves? While Russia plans to seize the entire Arctic for its own use, the United States shuts down all future development over nearly 20 million acres of land and sea -- for absolutely zero environmental benefit, especially since Russia will likely be able to exploit much of that same territory anyway. Just as bac, Obama did this despite universal opposition from Alaska's elected officials -- robbing the state of much-needed jobs and revenues. Hopefully, this theft and giveaway to Russia can be reversed.

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Ron Arnold

|2015-02-14T15:59:28-05:00February 14th, 2015|3 Comments

America is falling behind in the new cold war over Arctic oil and gas

CFACT policy analyst Marita Noon reports that President Obama's made dash to prevent U.S. oil and gas activities in the very profitable Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) may stem more from Russian money funneled to U.S.-based environmental nonprofits -- and the desire of the President to please such groups -- than from any intelligent rationale for declaring these rich lands off limits to the minimal development needed for resource extraction. Russia, meanwhile, is conducting military-scale operations in a possible effort to take physical control of the entire Arctic region.

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Marita Noon

|2015-02-03T07:57:08-05:00February 2nd, 2015|Comments Off

100 years ago: The Willy — Nicky telegrams

July 28th, 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia one month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie. The great powers of Europe began to mobilize their armies. Two imperial cousins, Czar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany engaged in a fascinating exchange of telegrams (in English) as their nations teetered on the brink of war.

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CFACT Ed

|2014-07-28T08:34:58-04:00July 28th, 2014|2 Comments

Needed: U.S. natural gas exports

The U.S. today has the resources to counter such moves as Russia's recent cutoff of natural gas shipments to Ukraine and the ISIS surge in Iraq that threatens that nation's oil and gas deliveries. The simple changes in law and policy needed to expedite the growth of the U.S. LNG business are to (a) open up federal lands and waters to drilling, and in particular, hydrofracking, and (b) expedite approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy of LNG export plans that would bring jobs for out-of-work Americans and tax revenues to state and local governments.

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Paul Driessen

|2014-06-23T20:55:43-04:00June 23rd, 2014|Comments Off

Putin’s gift to America’s energy independence

James Rust, taking a note from Peter Glover's article about Russian energy imperialism, suggests the U.S. should step up its own energy production and liberalize our oil and gas export laws to provide Europe with the means to thwart Russia's bold geopolitical strategy. Of course, the Europeans might do well to reverse their own anti-energy-production policies. The key is to remember that fossil fuels production is a manufacturing process that drives economic growth.

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James Rust

|2014-03-25T16:29:43-04:00March 24th, 2014|Comments Off

Bell: Use fracking to subdue Russia

The best weapon against Putin’s aggression in the Ukraine and elsewhere lies right beneath our noses and feet. Unleashing America’s abundant oil and natural gas resources can not only greatly disempower Russia’s stranglehold threats against Europe and other allies, but can also strengthen our ties with those countries while providing energy independence, economic benefits, and jobs to increase strength at home. Although major expansion of U.S. oil and gas exports to energy-thirsty Europe cannot be achieved overnight, commitments to do so can have immediate leveraging effects around the world. With oil and gas accounting for more than half of Russia’s federal [...]

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Larry Bell

|2014-03-19T03:05:40-04:00March 10th, 2014|3 Comments

Media ignores inconvenient ice, yet Antarctic rescue ship now trapped too

Can the media ignore both the global warming nature of the expedition that got itself trapped in Antarctic ice, and 2013's massive growth of Antarctic ice itself? UPDATE: The Yanks are comin'. U.S. ice breaker steaming to the rescue.

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CFACT Ed

|2014-01-04T17:48:15-05:00January 4th, 2014|22 Comments

Antarctic ice blocks ice breaker sent to rescue climate researchers trapped in… ice

Will the dramatic spectacle of climate researchers trapped in Antarctic ice (which has expanded massively during 2013) help free the media of the false global warming ice narrative?

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CFACT Ed

|2013-12-29T09:35:42-05:00December 28th, 2013|44 Comments

COP 19: Realism dawns as nations pull back CO2 targets

As the Obama administration utilizes any excuse available to throttle down American energy production, other countries are headed in the opposite direction.

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CFACT Ed

|2013-11-17T20:11:42-05:00November 17th, 2013|8 Comments

A climate treaty without a vote? Russia protests UN’s shocking “consensus” procedure

Will Russia restore due process to the UN climate talks or could the Warsaw outcome and ultimately the UN's long sought climate treaty of Paris be adopted with world nations never being given the opportunity of actually voting?

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CFACT Ed

|2013-11-11T05:23:43-05:00November 10th, 2013|5 Comments

Russia reduces charges against Greenpeace from piracy to “hooliganism”

Russia has amended its piracy charges against thirty detained Greenpeace campaigners. The new charge of hooliganism carries a penalty of up to seven years in prison -- A prospect leaving little room for comfort as temperatures drop in Murmansk.

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CFACT Ed

|2013-10-23T18:37:46-04:00October 23rd, 2013|4 Comments

More from Greenpeace indicted by Russia for piracy

Fourteen and counting. Greenpeace parent: "She was just looking forward to seeing polar bears and never thought for one minute this sort of thing would happen."

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CFACT Ed

|2013-10-03T10:12:57-04:00October 3rd, 2013|3 Comments

Greenpirates! Russia charges Greenpeace with piracy

Russian authorities have charged five Greenpeace campaigners with piracy in Murmansk and are continuing to detain and investigate as many as 25 more. If convicted they face 10-15 years in prison.

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CFACT Ed

|2013-10-02T16:57:29-04:00October 2nd, 2013|13 Comments

Russia seizes Greenpeace ship for trespass and piracy

Russia seized the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and towed it into the port of Murmansk after Greenpeace personnel “attacked” Russia's “Prirazlomnaya” oil platform in the Pechora Sea. This is the same ship CFACT hung the "Ship of Lies" banner on at COP 19 in 2009.

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CFACT Ed

|2013-10-02T09:08:23-04:00September 26th, 2013|11 Comments

Crony carbonism deal breaking apart?

It’s way past time to recognize that UNFCCC’s cap-and-trade, loss and damage compensation and other global wealth redistribution agendas have little or nothing to do with actually preventing a climate crisis, much less offering any benefits. Despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels, global temperatures have not only been flat for going on two decades, but are predicted by leading scientists to cool over many future years or decades to come.

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Larry Bell

|2013-06-29T10:11:47-04:00June 24th, 2013|1 Comment