Eric let us be realistic for a moment and be more pragmatic about the energy resources of the world and the consequences of nuclear fallout.
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As the West celebrates the apparent expansion of NATO into Central Europe, Russia is making a concerted bid to achieve a strategic victory of its own: dominance of the energy resources in the Caspian Sea region.
That prospect has been further compounded by the recent revelation by the Dow Jones Energy Service that a subsidiary of Sinopec, Shengli Petroleum, was awarded a contract to develop the energy resources of yet another rogue state: Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
The prospect of severe global energy disruptions, the further nationalization of existing energy resources and the formation of energy-based, anti-American alliances present a threat to the global competitive equation.
When American oil firms first began to take an interest in the rich energy resources of the region in the early and mid-1990s and to invest tens of millions of dollars, especially in Kazakhstan, Russia did not have the financial means to compete.
As we lay the foundation for a clean energy economy, we must also take advantage of the abundant energy resources we have here at home and reduce our dependence on oil imports.
The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board reported in June that output from the region increased by 14% in 2009 to 544 million barrels.
But it also happens because we no longer have the energy and resources to understand what sentiment means as a democratic force.
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Large, powerful players can afford to bully and bulldoze the small, and few have the energy and resources to wage a courtroom battle.
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"There's been a concerted move, supported by the government, to expand in the energy and resources sectors and become more self-sufficient, " he said.
Alex Farrell is a professor in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley who studies the impacts of unconventional oil.
While natural gas is a fossil fuel that emits carbon dioxide, tapping into the gas hydrates assessed in the study is not expected to affect global warming, said Brenda Pierce, coordinator for the USGS Energy Resources Program.
While TREC's plan is nowhere near becoming a reality, it seems inevitable that, in one form or another, someone will try to capitalize on the vast solar energy resources available in the sun-soaked countries of the Sun Belt.
Senator Frank Murkowski, who chairs the House committee on Energy and Natural Resources, said the energy secretary made repeatedly given assurances that improved security measures at the lab were protecting America's nuclear secrets.
Over the past decade, the U.S. electric power industry has reduced carbon emissions, reigned in demand growth and diversified the portfolio of energy resources used to generate electricity provided by the power grid.
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On the one hand, he says he supports an "all of the above" energy plan that uses all of the nation's energy resources.
He also is committed to an all-of-the-above approach, including the development of clean energy resources here in the United States, all with the aim of reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
The Center for Security Policy has long warned of the dangerous uses energy resources can be put to by malevolent forces in the Kremlin either as a revenue stream to support militaristic activities or as an instrument for economic warfare.
Currently, Senator Wallop serves as the ranking minority member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and as a senior member of the Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Small Business.
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Exxon Mobil's spell at the top of the rankings illustrated the importance of energy resources at a time when rising demand from Asia caused the oil price to rise more than fivefold over the past decade.
Most of the industrialized world depends on energy resources from the Middle East.
GE, Shell and the two largest owners of utilities in the United States, Exelon and Duke Energy, were being questioned by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
The top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Domenici's opinion carries significant weight on energy matters, and during the last week, he waged a campaign to defeat the measure if it included the tax provision and renewable mandate for utilities.
There was even an agreement in 2006 to work together to avoid bidding up the prices of energy resources in third countries.
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Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy and the Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program at The University of Texas at Austin.
Russia may not be trying to recreate an empire it has neither the energy, human resources or ideology for that but it is trying to prevent the West from entering its sphere of influence.
Sitting in the center of the so-called Sun Belt, the country is part of a vast, rainless region reaching from the western edge of North Africa to the eastern edge of Central Asia that boasts the best solar energy resources on Earth.
The Energy and Natural Resources Committee should want to ascertain whether any American company is going to be willing to explore the ocean floors' resources if, as the price of doing so, they have to give sensitive data and technology to international competitors.
Republican Lisa Murkowksi, ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, also spoke approvingly of ARPA-E in a speech at the D.
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As part of the global effort to conserve energy resources, governments have begun to mandate the phase out of traditional lighting.
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