Billions in profits, billions in subsidies: Big Oil has their cake and eats it too
This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
How soon we forget as Congress suffers from oil spill amnesia
This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
While the Gulf Still Gently Weeps
Co-authored by Simon Mahan and Toni Reale It seems like yesterday when the airwaves were filled with the horrifying news that an exploratory oil rig had exploded in the Gulf of Mexico…
In like a Lion, out like a Lamb?
This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
New Deepwater Drilling Permit Provides Platform for Perpetuating Myths
On February 28th, the Obama Administration issued its first deepwater drilling permit since the Gulf of Mexico disaster in April of last year. Noble Energy Inc. has been granted permission to continue…
Onshore Oil Infrastructure Could Change our Coasts Forever
It is hard to believe that it's been just 10 months since the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed an estimated 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the mantra…
NC Governor Seeks Public Input for Offshore Energy Future
In response to a proposed federal natural gas and oil leasing program for the Atlantic, Governor Beverly Perdue of North Carolina created (by executive order) a Scientific Advisory Panel on Offshore Energy…
Southeast Waters Spared from Offshore Oil Drilling
On March 31st, 2010 to the shock and amazement of clean energy advocates, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of the Interior would seek to lease offshore areas that were previously…
SACE Launches New Video: Southern Solutions to Gulf Oil Drilling
Today the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy launches a new video highlighting the ways that we can drill for clean energy solutions in our region and not for oil. Our video comes out…
Another Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf of Mexico
This blog was co-authored with Jennifer Rennicks While Gulf communities are busy picking up the pieces that remain of their coastal heritage and natural resources following the BP oil disaster, we learned…