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Kelpie Wilson: From Teapot Dome to Gale Norton
Monday, 20 March 2006, 12:48 am | Kelpie Wilson
As the Teapot Dome scandal of Warren G. Harding's presidency was one milestone in the history of American resource piracy, the tenure of Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior is surely another. More >>
Pete McCloskey Talks about GOP Corruption - IV
Wednesday, 1 March 2006, 11:09 am | Kelpie Wilson
On February 12, I sat with Pete McCloskey at a public park in Lodi, California, to ask him a few questions about his race against the most anti-environmental congressman in history, Richard Pombo. Mc Closkey is challenging Pombo in the Republican primary, ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Republican Gold-Diggers Hit Wall
Friday, 13 January 2006, 2:02 pm | Kelpie Wilson
Believe it or not, the looting of a continent and its people that began with Columbus more than 500 years ago is not done yet. Today's gold-seekers may look different from Spain's conquistadors, but they are of the same breed. More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Climate Shock - We're on Thin Ice
Saturday, 31 December 2005, 2:11 pm | Kelpie Wilson
Climate shock comes from the realization that climate change is not only real, but huge; it is not only huge, but it is now; and it will affect your life very shortly. Not your grandchildren's lives. Not your children's lives. Your life. Soon - if it ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Pombo's Poison Pills
Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 12:20 am | Kelpie Wilson
Arctic natives and caribou got a reprieve last week when some House Republicans refused to go along with adding Arctic Refuge oil drilling to the budget reconciliation bill. Conservationists are jubilant, though the feeling is tempered somewhat by knowing ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Let Them Freeze in the Dark
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 12:54 am | Kelpie Wilson
Every time conservationists have criticized the energy industries for the pollution and climate destruction it takes to pull oil, coal, gas and uranium out of the ground and turn it into energy, the retort is always the same: "You eco-freaks want everybody ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Energy Hog Lessons
Friday, 7 October 2005, 2:43 pm | Kelpie Wilson
Billionaire oil baron John Paul Getty knew that the secret to accumulating great wealth was to never miss an opportunity. He even installed a pay telephone at his English country estate to ensure that guests paid for their own calls. If he wasn't ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: The Hapless Environmentalist
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 12:08 am | Kelpie Wilson
Does a hapless environmentalist who, for reasons of his own, decides to protect a hapless toad, have any right to freedom of speech? Does this hapless environmentalist have any standing to come before a court and advocate for the hapless toad under ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: America's Tsunami
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:48 am | Kelpie Wilson
Survivors of Katrina are looking around at their flooded world and calling it "our tsunami." Climate writer Ross Gelbspan says Katrina's real name is Global Warming. In a general sense, he is correct, but the scientific record shows that hurricanes ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Kill the Bill
Sunday, 31 July 2005, 4:58 pm | Kelpie Wilson
If anything merits drawing the filibuster sword out of its sheath, it is the energy bill that came out of a House/Senate conference this week. More >>
Kelpie Wilson: The Tragic Abuse of Corn
Friday, 22 July 2005, 2:38 pm | Kelpie Wilson
It was one of those things that you can't quite believe is real. I was flipping through a magazine and saw an ad for a stove that burns corn kernels. For heat. Corn is food, not fuel, I thought, but the ad assured me that "Corn is replenished annually. ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Energy Bill Heads to Conference
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 11:36 am | Kelpie Wilson
This week, members of the Senate and House will begin their conference to resolve the differences in the energy bill. The 800-page Senate version of the bill comes at a price of $18 billion in annual tax incentives plus $40 billion or so in authorized ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Exponential Enrons Ahead
Friday, 24 June 2005, 2:59 pm | Kelpie Wilson
One of the least-discussed provisions in the Bush energy bill that has passed the House and is now fast-tracked in the Senate is PUHCA repeal. "Pooka repeal," you say, "what's that?" More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Sellin' Nukes, Dissin' Wind
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:17 am | Kelpie Wilson
Twenty years after Chernobyl, the pro-nuclear lobby has decided that it's time to glue a happy face on nuclear power again. Simultaneous pro-nuclear public relations campaigns have plastered their briefs in the US and British media markets in the ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Oil on Ice – Director Interview
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 10:42 am | Kelpie Wilson
Oil on Ice is a new documentary on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that will show you exactly why drilling in ANWR is such a terrible idea. But that's not the reason to watch it. The reason to see it is for the wildlife footage. More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Going Geo-Green
Friday, 1 April 2005, 2:53 pm | Kelpie Wilson
"I am a geo-green," says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has written a series of columns expounding his "geo-green" stance. Geo-greens, he says, combine geopolitics with green strategies - specifically in the context of the Middle East ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson IV: Nigeria's Oil Killing Fields
Friday, 18 March 2005, 10:40 am | Kelpie Wilson
At the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon, held March 3-6, I was able to hear about the work of environmental lawyers and activists from around the world. The most deeply affecting panel I attended was on the human and ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: Like A Christmas Tree In The Gutter
Thursday, 30 December 2004, 11:16 am | Kelpie Wilson
We love the Christmas tree as a symbol of the evergreen renewal of nature and spirit, and we embrace it in our homes this time of year. In the aftermath of the New Year, we see the skeletal brown trees with shreds of tinsel lying on our curbs and in our ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: We Are All Tuvalu
Tuesday, 14 December 2004, 10:30 am | Kelpie Wilson
Tuvalu is an island nation in the Pacific. It stands a mere three meters above sea level and two years ago, on a calm, otherwise beautiful day, a tidal surge from the warming, rising Pacific Ocean flooded nearly all of the capital island of Funafuti. ... More >>
Kelpie Wilson: A Virtual Ecotopia
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 3:43 pm | Kelpie Wilson
Like many, my first thought on seeing the electoral map of November 2nd was a blue state secession. The blue left coast hanging there off of Canada looked just like Ecotopia to me. More >>
