Drill Here, Drill Now

During the 2008 presidential campaign, environmentalists mocked Sarah Pallin's simplistic slogans of "drill here, drill now."  But, today, President Obama is going to announce a breathtaking proposal to open up vast areas of coastal waters, including in the Arctic, for oil and gas drilling.

I suspect many environmentalists did not hear President Obama during the campaign talk about the "necessity" of opening new areas for drilling nor his endorsement of nuclear power.  The next issue, highly complex one, will be when the US Forest Service begins opening up federally managed forests for the harvesting of woody biomass as a source of biofuels.

Drill here, cut there....

Natural Gas Company Doing the Right Thing

The Catskills, habitat for some of the best drinking water in the country (that doesn't have to be filtered) is again protected. A company that owned the natural gas rights underneath the New York City watershed has decided not to drill. It's the right thing to do.

Nice to see a company in America make good choices.