Security

A pair of bills that would help to jump start the economy and employment, improve national security and promote one of the nation’s most important and plentiful resources — natural gas — are “ready for action” when Congress reconvenes next week, according to independent oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens.

The proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, better known as the Waxman-Markey climate bill, is economically sound and may have benefits worth twice as much as the cost to implement it, an analysis has found.

The national security team of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Thursday was investigating another possible attack on an EnCana Corp. natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia.

The proposed American Clean Energy and Security Act, which narrowly passed the House last Friday, is a “public policy abomination” that “should be opposed by open-minded climate scientists and climate economists of all political persuasions,” an executive told the Texas Energy Summit Wednesday.

While highlighting plans for improved border security and migration policies, President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon meeting in Mexico City Thursday, also pledged cooperation across the border on measures to address climate change and energy resources.

While highlighting plans for improved border security and migration policies, President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, meeting in Mexico City Thursday, also pledged cooperation across the border on measures to address climate change and energy resources.

Calling for greater energy security and independence, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Wednesday said a John McCain administration would put in place policies for producers to “drill here and drill now” on both land and offshore.

While there may be future rewards in terms of diversification of energy supply, energy security and environmental protection, the American taxpayer currently is paying a high price for development of the power generation fuels of the future, according to a recent report by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Environmental concerns seem to be trumping energy security needs when it comes to the issue of drilling in the waters off two pristine Northern California counties 100 miles up the coast from San Francisco, according to stakeholders on both sides of the issue.