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WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday began a new effort to crack down on methane emissions, a major contributor to climate change. The first-ever White House Methane Summit came at a time of severe heat across much of the U.S., including in Pittsburgh, where temperatures are expected to approach or exceed 90 degrees until the weekend. President Joe Biden established a new methane task force to work with state and local officials to detect leaks and reduce emissions. The White House said billions of dollars of natural gas are lost to leaks every year. In Pennsylvania, methane accounts for...

Alberta’s Leduc geological formation contains an abundance of lithium, a critical and rare metal that is needed in batteries to power electric vehicles and cellphones. Lithium has traditionally been extracted from “hard rocks,” but in Alberta, it exists in the brine, or water, left behind in oilfields across the province. Geologist Chris Doornbos started E3 Lithium, a TSX-listed geo-tech company that entered into a strategic partnership with Imperial Oil last year. And last week, the company announced some impressive test results. “Our resource was upgraded (last week) to 16-million tonnes — 9.4 indicated and 6.6 measured resources of lithium carbonate...

In response to rapidly rising gas prices, the Montana Petroleum Association has announced that wells in the Bakken oil fields are officially going back online. Inflation, regulations and a lack of additional oil resources — such as those that would have been supplied by the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was canceled by President Joe Biden on his first day in office — have led to rising gas prices in the states, experts say. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month, energy prices were rising. In response to Vladimir Putin’s offensive, much of the Western world has imposed sanctions on...

Newly minted Secretary of Defense James Mattis celebrated his first full day at the Pentagon by overseeing 31 strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Mattis entered the Pentagon Saturday with a smile for his first full day of work, and for good reason, considering the significant bombardment ISIS forces received. A variety of fighters, bombers and remotely piloted aircraft engaged in the bombing run, which saw 25 strikes in Syria and six in Iraq. In Syria, two strikes destroyed ISIS units and artillery near the town of Bab. ISIS forces in Raqqa, the terrorist group’s de facto capital,...

Why hasn’t the U.S. bombed the oil wells that ISIS controls into oblivion by now? Would you believe that it is because the Obama administration “didn’t want to do environmental damage”? Former Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morell has publicly admitted that we have purposely avoided damaging the main source of income for ISIS, and his explanation for why we were doing this is utterly bizarre. But at this point what could the Obama administration say that would actually make sense? Everyone now knows that ISIS has been making hundreds of millions of dollars selling oil in Turkey, and...

Former CIA Acting Director Mike Morell says the reason why the Obama administration wouldn't bomb and destroy ISIS oil wells was out of concern about "environmental damage." Discussing President Barack Obama's thinking prior to the Nov. 13 ISIS attacks in Paris, Morell, who served as acting director twice while he was the agency's deputy director, tells interviewer Charlie Rose there's "now a sense of urgency that there wasn't before." ...

One nagging question that the industrial world has been asking itself since the discovery of the first oil well is what happens when the wells begin to run dry. The answer is relatively simple to imagine. We had a dry run, so to speak, when Dubai’s economy tanked a few years ago. And although the causes of Dubai’s ills and ails were financial and not oil related, the drama which unfolded gave us a watered-down version of what might transpire if and when the oil wells stop producing. But before we run the Armageddon tape that the world will stop...

THIS WEBSITE has photos from Gulf War I in which Saddam Hussein set Kuwait oil wells on fire as his military was removed. DFU NOTE: As we watch the battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, we have been given some hints at what Hillary has planned. Behind the scenes, the Clintons and their surrogates are attempting to negotiate with, bribe, and threaten Super Delegates. Hillary has been working on this presidential race for a couple decades. She is not going away quietly. As did Saddam Hussein, she is prepared to "burn the oil wells." She is not going...

WASHINGTON (AP) - California Democratic lawmakers are pushing new bills to install a permanent ban against drilling for oil or gas off the state's coast. The legislation introduced in the Senate by Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and in the House by nearly all of the state's 33 House Democrats comes as other lawmakers are renewing efforts to open coastal areas to energy development. Legislation by the Republican chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Energy Committee would require the Interior Department to begin selling leases for oil and gas development in an area of the central Gulf of...

HOUSTON - Paul N. "Red" Adair, a world-renowned oil well firefighter who revolutionized the science of capping exploding and burning wells, has died, his daughter said. He was 89. Adair, who boasted that none of his employees ever suffered a serious injury fighting the dangerous fires, died Saturday evening of natural causes at a Houston hospital, his daughter, Robyn Adair, told The Associated Press. Adair founded Red Adair Co. Inc. in 1959 and is credited with battling more than 2,000 land and offshore oil well fires, including the hundreds of wells left burning after the Iraqis fled Kuwait at...

CIA created fake mullahs by Tuesday 23 September 2003 3:54 AM GMT Agency director George Tenet's imposters spread propaganda in the Middle East The CIA installed phoney Muslim leaders and bribed existing ones to counter the anti-American sentiment in mosques across the Arab world after the 11 September attacks. The claim is made in "The CIA at War" by Ronald Kessler, an investigative reporter and author of several books about the CIA and the FBI, who also describes espionage activity in Iraq that supported the March invasion that unseated President Saddam Hussein. Kessler interviewed CIA Director George Tenet in May...

HAMBURG: Any discussion of the post-war reconstruction of Iraq quickly turns to the country's potential oil revenues. Even the US administration has indicated that Iraq's oil wealth can pay the bill for the war's aftermath. But most oil analysts consider this idea an illusion. With 15.1 billion tons, Iraq has the third-largest oil reserves in the world after Saudi Arabia and Canada but its contribution to global oil supplies has been modest in recent years. Under the United Nations embargo Iraq was only allowed to export a limited amount of oil and could make no investments in facilities. At last...

'Turks must swallow a bitter pill' Ankara presses US to remove Kurds from oil-rich Kirkuk Saturday April 12, 2003 The Guardian KurdishMedia.com Editorial, April 10 "The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, said he had reached an accord with Turkey to have Kurdish forces pull back from Kirkuk, the oil-rich city in northern Iraq. It appears that Kurds were only wanted for the 'dirty job'. After Kurds liberated Kirkuk, then their services are not required. The question for the US is this: why should Turkey, the one country that refused to help the US in the war against Iraq, have...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- Fighting around the southern Iraq oil fields that U.S.-led forces had previously thought were secure has driven out civilian firefighters trying to put out the oil well blazes, the top firefighter said Monday. ``It's not nearly as safe as they said it was,'' said Brian Krause, vice president and senior blowout specialist for Houston-based Boots and Coots. ``We're kind of sitting ducks out there.'' The Iraqi resistance in the oil fields challenges U.S. claims that southern Iraq is quickly falling under allied control. U.S. Marines declared the southern Rumailah oil fields in Iraq unsafe for journalists...

To 30 oil wells on fire in Iraq, according to Geoff Hoon To 30 oil wells were set fire to by the Iraqi forces in the south of Iraq, according to last estimates', declared the Minister for British Defense Geoff Hoon in a maintenance with the BBC (radio). "La last estimate which I received before leaving the ministry for Defense this morning is that perhaps to 30 oil wells were deliberately burnt ", specified Mr. Hoon. "Dans the current context, it is perhaps less worse than what us planes fears, because there are several hundreds of oil well in...

Iraqi forces set fire to oil pipelines KUN0171 4 GEN 0109 KUWAIT /KUNA-QMS1 MIL-IRAN-IRAQ-OIL FIRES Iraqi forces set fire to oil pipelines TEHRAN, March 20 (KUNA) -- Iraqi forces set fire on Thursday to its oil pipelines in the city of Khanaqin, located northeast of the capital Baghdad, in attempt to stop U.S. aircraft and forces from reaching their targets, Iranian News Agency (IRNA) said. Billowing smoke emitting from Iraqi territory could be seen clearly from the Khasruwi area, a part of Iran's Qasr Sherein province located on the western border with Iraq. Earlier, reports indicated that Iraqi troops set...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon has contingency plans to extinguish oil well fires in Iraq, if Saddam Hussein sets them ablaze as he did in Kuwait in 1991, the Defense Department said. The Pentagon said Saddam has both the "capability and the intent to damage or destroy Iraq's oil fields," citing recent intelligence that 24 rail containers of pentolite explosives have been delivered to Iraq. US estimates say the regime's likely actions would potentially double the disastrous effects experienced in Kuwait in 1991 when the destruction of Kuwaiti oil wells by Saddam had 20 times the detrimental impact of...

THE PENTAGON said yesterday that US officials have detected indications that Saddam Hussein is planning to blow up Iraq’s 1,500 oil wells in the event of a US-led invasion, including evidence that he has already wired some well heads with explosives. The announcement follows assertions made last month by US defence officials that the Iraqi leader plans to execute a “scorched earth” policy if he faces removal from power, which includes the destruction of power plants, food storage facilities and oil wells. One defence official said: “There are a number of indications through reliable intelligence sources that the process (of...