In most part of the US, temperatures were about 20% lower than normal. When I see this omission, I suspect either stupidity on the part of the writer or cupidity for the profits and stature that come from aligning oneself with a powerful and wealthy oil industry. But, they often repeat uncritically what the oil industry, their paid consultants, and fake think-tank and university academics supported by the industry tell them. Industry consultants and fake think-tank academics are already well-paid for their fealty to the industry line. All the extractive industries disproportionately place bad consequences on those nearest the site of extraction for the benefit of the rest of us and for their own bottom line. This trunk line will be used to provide at least two paths to ground for each tank. This expansion will quadruple gasoline output within two years, producing 1,200 tons by the end of 2021, compared to a current production of 300 tons. These nations need to invest in proper technology that will help them to make proper use of their natural resources. To use Taleb’s words, I am suggesting that we not allow ourselves to be suckers. You can use various devices available in the market to improve air quality in your house or in your office.

When the stock price is safely above the option price, the insider buys the deeply discounted shares from the company directly and then dumps the shares on the market almost immediately to secure a large and risk-free profit. The insider gains from short-term hype while avoiding the downside of possible long-term disappointment. The broader issue is how public policy is being affected by people who have little or no downside if their public pronouncements and projections are wrong. When they speak to reporters, there’s no downside if they are wrong. Won’t they suffer if their forecasts are wrong? These people are essentially acting as agents for the industry even though they often appear in the media as neutral observers and thus agents for the public in its quest to understand our true energy situation. In fact, this has always happened wherever people traded company shares through history. Then, there is the problem of the board of directors being beholden to the company management rather than the shareholders–yet, another agency problem. 12 million collection of antique road maps that were purchased from him by Chesapeake at the direction of board to help cushion his horrendous losses on the Chesapeake stock he owned.

To that, call it, certainly 10% to 20% base run off, although we did add some recent wells from Chesapeake that they operate. Aberdeen has seen substantial oil deposits being discovered in the North Sea during recent years. Other companies, many of which were run by independent prospectors popularly known as “wildcatters,” followed Hunt’s lead, but 11 years passed before they found the next significant discovery. The Grotto is a natural area where one can view things normally found in caves like stalactites and stalagmites. It doesn’t sound like it would be that bad. And, these directors often approve outrageous bonuses for management which, of course, are not taken back when things go bad. No one person feels that it was he or she that caused the problem, and the law in the United States and many countries counts bad advice and misguided advocacy as free speech. We also buy in other areas of West Virginia and other states but as far as West Virginia goes, we have a focus in the Marcellus shale play and the Utica shale play areas. Reporters depend on living, breathing sources for their information far more than they do on meticulous documentary research. Nor will the change affect the fund’s stake in Norway’s state oil and gas firm, Equinor, or the country’s ongoing plans to explore and pump more oil and gas in waters increasingly far north.

These governments are reducing their CO2 emissions through abiding by some of the resolutions and recommendations of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), several of which have been ratified through the Kyoto Protocol. These measurements show that methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells can be significant. Structural dip in a given fault block can occur in any direction as a result of the complex depositional faulting. Yet, all the same things mentioned under the previous heading are always first on the chopping block directly because of corporations refusing to pay their fair share! His latest book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, has much to say about the agency problem and should be mandatory reading for anyone who must manage risk–which means just about everyone. This would carefully align the management’s aims with those of shareholders since management would now have a lot of skin in the game with no chance of a bailout if things go badly.

Rather, we should require whoever enters top management to invest a substantial portion of his or her savings in the company and be forced to retain any position for 10 years or more before selling. West Lothian has recovered from 100 years of rape, thank you for asking. Many academic experts and financial executives had been pushing for financial deregulation for years. When analysts pressed executives on this issue during a third quarter earnings call, the company reiterated its promise that positive cash flow would be coming soon. 75 million bonus awarded to Aubrey McClendon in 2008, then CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., as the natural gas market collapsed and the excessive borrowing by Chesapeake tanked its stock price and nearly brought the company to bankruptcy. To his credit, McClendon had much of his personal fortune invested in Chesapeake. When one person makes a costly error, it is much easier to pin the blame and extract consequences. You will also notice that almost without exception such stories and books make scant or no mention of climate change, as if the supposed renewed fossil fuel abundance has no consequences for the unfolding climate nightmare.