It was just a little over a year ago that Andrew Breitbart met an untimely end at the tender age of 43. I’m persuaded that he didn’t die of old age, but that’s a topic for another day. He left behind a thriving news aggregator called Breitbart.com which,
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IEA Declares OPEC Has Accomplished Its Mission: Oil Is Now “Balanced”
- Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:17
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, April 23, 2018:
“It’s not for us to declare on behalf of the Vienna agreement [the OPEC production-cut agreement in force since January 2017] that it is ‘mission accomplished’, but if our outlook is accurate, it certainly looks very much like it,” said the International Energy Agency (IEA) last week. Those production cuts, aided by the rolling disaster in Venezuela that continues to take crude oil production off the world market, have, according to the IEA, brought down the world’s crude oil stocks within shouting distance of OPEC’s goal: the five-year average of those stocks.
Compliance among members of the OPEC cartel and its friends (including Russia) has been extraordinarily high, with Saudi Arabia helping things along by cutting its own production far more deeply than the agreement called for.
U.S. production, estimated to approach 11 million barrels a day by the end of the year (twice what it was just seven years ago), has been unable to match the production cuts and worldwide demand, which has greatly surprised to the upside.
Add in concerns that on May 12 the president of the United States will decide
Latest Poll: An Election Today Could Retire Five Senate Democrats
- Saturday, 10 March 2018 07:17
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, March 9, 2018:
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of many in trouble in November.
Results of a poll of likely voters released on Thursday spell trouble — serious trouble — for at least five of the 10 Senate Democrats running for reelection in November in states carried by Trump in 2016. The poll, conducted by Axios/Survey Monkey from February 12 through March 5, shows Democrat senators in Montana, West Virginia, Missouri, Indiana, and North Dakota in deep trouble. The other five, in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, aren’t out of the woods by any means.
If it’s true that voters will vote their pocketbooks in November, a steadily improving economy would spell trouble for more than just these endangered five senators. The Wall Street Journal just reported that voters’ total net worth — including all assets such as stocks, 401(k) plans, and real estate, minus outstanding credit card-debt and mortgage balances — rose in the last quarter of 2017 by more than $2 trillion to a record $98 trillion. That’s nearly seven times their disposable annual income, giving them not only a nice cushion in the event of an unhappy accident but increasing confidence in their financial futures.
And those financial futures are especially important to young voters, as reported just before the 2016 presidential election by USA Today.
Dakota Access Pipeline Fulfilling Its Promise
- Tuesday, 02 January 2018 05:58
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, January 1, 2018:
Fully operational since June, the Dakota Access Pipeline is lowering transportation costs, reducing tank car usage, reducing environmental and population risk, improving North Dakota’s financial condition, and putting the lie to the alarmist anti-pipeline propaganda.
There’s scarcely a downside.
Alaska’s North Slope Oil Reserves Are “Open for Business”
- Friday, 02 June 2017 05:37
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, June 1, 2017:
Map of northern Alaska showing location of , ANWR-1002 area, and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA).
Following a six-day trip to northern Alaska, Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed an order on Wednesday in Anchorage that reverses a 2013 Obama administration executive order. That 2013 order removed half of the immense National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA) on Alaska’s North Slope from consideration for energy development. Said Zinke:
North Dakota Oil Production Jumps as Access Pipeline Nears Completion
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 05:24
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, May 15, 2017:
The latest report from North Dakota’s state oil and gas division showed that crude oil production for March is back up over a million barrels a day, an increase of nearly nine percent since December and almost double what the state produced five years ago.
The boom is back.
In Bismarck there are hundreds more jobs being offered than takers, according to the Associated Press (AP), with “for hire” signs appearing once again in stores, shops, and restaurants downtown. In Williston there are 500 more job listings today than there were a year ago. Williston Republican state senator Brad Bekkedahl, whose district sits on top of the massive Bakken oil shale deposits, told the AP, “There is a long-term optimism that was not here a year ago.”
In the oil business, “long-term” is measured in months, not years or decades. In March 2012 there were 6,954 oil wells producing 580,000 barrels of crude every day. In March this year 13,632 wells produced 1.025 million barrels daily.
And it’s not all due to the Dakota Access pipeline,
Russia, Saudi Arabia Release Trial Balloon: Extend Production Cut by a Year
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 05:17
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, May 15, 2017:
In a joint statement released on Monday, oil ministers from Russia and Saudi Arabia said the present crude oil production reduction agreement reached last November should be extended for another year. The original target was a reduction of world crude inventories down to its five-year average. Since the present agreement didn’t come close, it should be extended, said Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih:
Bakken is OPEC’s Elephant in Its Living Room
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 05:09
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This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, May 15, 2017:
Setting the stage for the OPEC meeting on May 25, Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih, promised on Friday that “OPEC will do whatever it takes to rebalance the global oil market.” Whatever that means, and whatever comes out of that meeting, it won’t be enough to“rebalance” the oil market (rebalance: raise the price of oil sufficiently to reduce significantly the deficits the cartel’s members are currently running).
If the cartel repeats and extends the present agreement by six months, it’s likely to have the same impact: immeasurably small. The last agreement promised to cut 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) from its overall production. It managed to cut production by less than half that, 800,000 bpd. In the grand scheme of things (world production of oil is just over 80 million bpd), this represents a one percent reduction in global production of crude. Wahoo.
What will be discussed in Vienna will no doubt include who is going to be doing the heavy lifting, and how much. Will there be exceptions to the extension as there is in the present one? Will there be failures to comply, as there were under the present one? Will there be sanctions applied to those who cheat? What about non-members? Will they somehow be persuaded to engage in the farcical extension? From here the meeting has all the makings of Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing.”
Have the Environmentalists Stooped to this Level?
- Thursday, 04 May 2017 05:40
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This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, May 3, 2017:
When the final tally of the costs of cleaning up after the so-called “environmentalists” protesting the Dakota Access pipeline was completed, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum asked for federal help. The tally? $38 million! This included not only overtime for the overworked Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier and his deputies, but private security people from outside the state brought in to help them. It didn’t include the thousands of dollars incurred by the owners of the local Comfort Inn in Cannonball after their Good Samaritan efforts – offering free rooms to those protesters caught in the cold – were rewarded by their “guests” trashing them.
But it did include the bill from an environmental cleanup and fumigation company from Florida brought in to remove thousands of tons of unspeakably vile trash the protesters left behind. This writer now refuses to grace those thugs and criminals with the appellations “environmentalists” or even “hypocrites.”
In his request to President Trump, Burgum said:
North Dakota Demands U.S. Taxpayers Pay for Pipeline Protest Cleanup
- Wednesday, 03 May 2017 05:27
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, May 2, 2017:
When the last of the pipeline protesters were removed, some by force, from the Dakota Access campsites in late February, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier thought that would be the end of it, and folks could get back to their regular lives:
I am very happy to say that we finally introduced [the] rule of law in the Oceti camp. I am hopeful that this announcement brings us closer to finality in what has been an incredibly challenging time for our citizens and law enforcement professionals. Having dealt with riots, violence, trespassing and property crimes, the people of Morton County are looking forward to getting back to their normal lives.
Except for the bills.
Keystone XL Pipeline Granted Approval by State Department
- Saturday, 25 March 2017 06:39
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, March 24, 2017:
With the signing of the cross-border permit by the State Department on Friday, the real work on completing Phase IV of the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast begins. TransCanada, the owner and operator of the pipeline, still thinks the project is viable economically even though it has been stalled for 16 months by the previous administration. In a press release, TransCanada’s CEO Russ Girling said:
Drop in Crude Oil Prices Threatens OPEC and Its Production Cut Deal
- Wednesday, 15 March 2017 05:32
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, March 14, 2017:
A report released on Tuesday from OPEC indicated just how phony and ineffective is its highly touted production cut “agreement” the cartel managed to lash together among its members and nonmembers last fall. The agreement was designed to remove some 1.8 million barrels a day (mbd) from worldwide production — enough, it was hoped, to drive crude oil prices higher. Before the agreement OPEC was producing 32.5 mbd. Tuesday’s report indicated that the agreement has reduced daily production to — ready? — 31.96 mbd.
The agreement was destined to fail from the beginning. First,
Dakota Access Final Tally: 750 Arrested, 24,000 Tons of Trash Left, and $1 Million Cleanup Bill
- Thursday, 02 March 2017 06:07
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, March 1, 2017:
So much for “environmentalists” really caring about the environment.
The North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (DES) said on Tuesday that a Florida-based clean-up company it hired to clear trash, waste, and debris from the Oceti Sakowin camp protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline has already run up a bill of $1 million after hauling away from the site 24,000 tons of trash, garbage, rotting food, tents, teepees, sleeping bags, dozens of empty propane tanks, human excrement, and several automobiles. They also left behind two dogs and six puppies, apparently abandoned.
When The New American reported a month ago on protesters polluting the environment they allegedly claimed to revere, the amount of time, effort, and money it would take to clear the site was understated.
New Hampshire the 12th State to Allow Constitutional Carry
- Friday, 24 February 2017 06:33
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 23, 2017:
OpenCarry.org open carry gun laws
Residents of New Hampshire are enjoying a long-awaited expansion of their Second Amendment rights with the signing into law on Wednesday of a bill allowing them to carry a firearm without first obtaining government permission. The third time “is a charm,” it is said, and this bill passed on the third attempt. The previous two attempts passed both state houses but were vetoed by previous Democrat governors.
Said Republican Governor Chris Sununu:
Dakota Access Protesters Pollute the Environment They Claim to Cherish
- Tuesday, 07 February 2017 06:18
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 5, 2017:
Cannonball River, North Dakota
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last Friday that the site that protesters have occupied near the Dakota Access pipeline will be closed on February 22 to “prevent injuries and significant environmental damage in the likely event of flooding in this area. Without proper remediation, debris, trash and untreated waste will wash into the Cannonball River and Lake Oahe.”
The cleanup started a week ago,
Army Corps to Issue Approval to Complete Dakota Access Pipeline
- Thursday, 02 February 2017 06:46
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, February 1, 2017:
Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D., shown), following a meeting with Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer and Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday, announced that the Army Corps of Engineers will allow the Dakota Access Pipeline to be completed. He stated,
President Trump Signs Executive Actions to Revive Keystone and Dakota Access Pipeline Projects
- Wednesday, 25 January 2017 06:17
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, January 24, 2017:
President Donald Trump signed three executive actions on Tuesday reviving action on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipeline construction projects aborted by former President Obama.
Trump said he wants to seek a “better deal” on the Keystone XL Pipeline and asked TransCanada Corporation to resubmit its application for permission to complete the project. He added, “If we’re going to build pipelines in the United States, the pipes should be made in the United States.” Approvals of both projects are “subject to terms and conditions to be negotiated by us.”
Former President Obama iced the Keystone project in 2015 after seven years of stalling and delays, deciding after all that it wasn’t in the best interests of the United States to complete it. And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pulled its prior approval of completion of the Dakota Access pipeline last September following outrage, accompanied by violence, by environmentalist activists and members of Indian tribes allegedly concerned about water pollution and disturbing cultural sites.
Trump was careful to use “executive actions” on Tuesday, instead of “executive orders,” in his nod to move ahead with both projects. As Tom Murse, a contributing writer on U.S. government policies for About.com, noted:
Oops! Trump Names Rick Perry as Energy Secretary
- Wednesday, 14 December 2016 06:54
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, December 13, 2016:
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry (shown) said that it’s likely his first presidential run ended during a Republican debate in 2011. He ran on a platform of cutting government and when he was asked by a moderator which agencies he would eliminate, Perry responded:
Obama Administration Pulls Previous Approval for Dakota Oil Pipeline
- Tuesday, 06 December 2016 06:49
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, December 5, 2016:
Jo-Ellen Darcy, the U.S. Army’s assistant secretary for civil works, announced on Sunday that it was pulling its previous approval to complete the Dakota Access pipeline: “The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota.” Darcy, an Obama appointee with a degree in philosophy and sociology from Boston College, added:
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