Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Rank
Facility
Pounds
1.
RED DOG OPS., 90 MILES N. OF KOTZEBUE, KOTZEBUE, AK
481,578,816
2.
NEWMONT MINING CORP. TWIN CREEKS MINE, 35 MILES N.E. OF GOLCONDA, GOLCONDA, NV
291,128,400
3.
BHP COPPER N.A. SAN MANUEL OPS., 200 S. REDDINGTON RD., SAN MANUEL, AZ
248,695,440
4.
KENNECOTT UTAH COPPER MINE CONCENTRATORS & POWER PLANT, 12300 S. UTAH HWY. 111, COPPERTON, UT
113,640,793
5.
BARRICK GOLDSTRIKE MINES ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
The media has helped convince Americans that offshore drilling for oil in the United States will significantly reduce gasoline prices, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Although the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency has stated that the benefits from such drilling would be too small ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
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West Virginia Coal Mine
In September, oil industry executives gathered in Ireland to discuss future challenges the industry faced. The powwow kicked off with a keynote address from former U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. James Schlesinger.
"We can't continue to make supply meet demand much longer," Schlesinger said. "It's no ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
The price of oil has plunged in the past two weeks, but the biofuels bonanza has only just begun. [singlepic=432,400,290,,right]
Earlier today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied a request from Texas Governor Rick Perry to grant a national 50% waiver from the federal renewable fuel standard mandate for ethanol produced ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
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1. Ixtoc, Mexico (IXTOC I)
IXTOC I was an exploratory oil well built two miles under the ocean's surface, exploded in the Bahia de Campeche, 600 miles south of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico on June 3, 1979. The oil and gas blowing out of the well ignited, causing the ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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A new study on the environmental impact of wind turbines on bird life at the Judith Gap Wind Energy Center near Harlowton revealed that far turbines (at least in some areas) kill far more bats than birds. Turbine-related fatalities at Judith Gap Wind Energy Center near Harlowton reported 1,206 bats ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
The Bureau of Land Management said it will suspend all new solar energy projects on federal land for the next two years until it completes an environmental impact review. As discussed briefly in the preceding post, the BLM holds the country's most valuable sites in terms of solar energy ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
The language of conservation is getting a much needed overhaul courtesy of an international team of conservationists who are trying to standardize the discipline's language. The project plans to ground the discipline's problems and tools field in a framework of well defined concepts.
The new system applies at every level of ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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Phosphorus improves crop yields when added to fertilizers. The trouble is that phosphorous cannot be artificially produced. It needs to come from the ground. More specifically, it must be extracted from phosphate compounds buried in mines deep under earth. ...
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