Posts Tagged ‘oil and gas’

Should the Precautionary Principle Shut Down Wind Turbines?

November 18, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in birds, ecology, Energy, environment, environmental journalism, wildlife, wind farms, wind turbines | 86 comments

In 2012 Scientific American asked: Are Wind Turbines Getting More Bird and Bat-Friendly? In case you weren’t aware, wind energy has an ecological downside that’s hasn’t yet been smoothed out. As AP reporter Dina Cappiello wrote earlier this year, “the green industry is allowed to do not so green things”: It kills protected species with impunity and conceals the…Continue Reading…

Russia's Carbon Addiction

November 11, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Energy, oil & gas, Russia | No comments

Germany’s leading magazine, Der Spiegel, has a fascinating interview with Russia’s President Dimitry Medvedev, which includes this exchange: SPIEGEL: In a recent article that you wrote entitled “Go, Russia,” you spoke of your country’s “humiliating” economic “backwardness.” Why hasn’t Russia managed to overcome its dependency on natural resources in the time since the end of…Continue Reading…