Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Congress of Racial Equality, and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power ? Black death.

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Support drilling, fracking, Keystone … and exports

Paul Driessen | May 1, 2013 | 1 Comment

$Support drilling, fracking, Keystone … and exports$

We don’t need to restrict oil or gas exports. We need to open more lands to leasing and drilling. The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deepwater drilling, 3-dimension and 4-D [...]

EPA’s Tier 3 tyranny

Paul Driessen | April 19, 2013 | 0 Comments

High cost, no benefit does nothing to forestall agency’s quest for ecological utopia. President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has already promulgated a tsunami of 1,920 regulations, many of which will bring few health or environmental benefits, but will impose high economic and unemployment costs, often to advance the Administration’s decidedly anti-hydrocarbon agenda. The Heritage Foundation [...]

Cut fingers, cancer, bats and birds

Paul Driessen | April 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

By Paul Driessen and James H. Rust Government bureaucrats delay life-saving road projects, but let wind turbines butcher bats. Georgia residents recently learned that a rare bat has stalled state highway improvements. The May 2012 sighting of an endangered Indiana brown bat in a northern Georgia tree has triggered federal regulations requiring that state road [...]

Eco-imperialism joins vulture environmentalism

Paul Driessen | March 25, 2013 | 0 Comments

Obama appointees seek to impose ideological control over our energy, economy and property. Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use “dangerous manmade climate change” to justify new 54.5 mpg standards for cars and [...]

Our real manmade climate crisis

Paul Driessen | March 6, 2013 | 0 Comments

The crisis is due not to climate change, but to actions taken in the name of preventing change. In his first address as Secretary of State, John Kerry said we must safeguard “the most sacred trust” we owe to our children and grandchildren: “an environment not ravaged by rising seas, deadly superstorms, devastating droughts, and [...]

Carbon tax hallucinations

Paul Driessen | February 18, 2013 | 0 Comments

Carbon taxes will do nothing for revenues or climate, but will hurt job and economic growth. Average planetary temperatures haven’t budged in 16 years. Hurricanes and strong tornadoes are at or near their lowest ebb in decades. Global sea ice is back to normal, Arctic ice is nearly normal, and the Antarctic icepack continues to [...]

Real sustainability versus activist sustainability

Paul Driessen | February 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or isn’t – sustainable? Former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland said sustainability means we may develop … and [...]

Real sustainability versus activist sustainability

Paul Driessen | February 3, 2013 | 0 Comments

Activist sustainability concepts don’t meet environmental, humanitarian or sustainability tests. Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or isn’t – sustainable? Former Prime Minister of [...]

The politics of Hurricane Sandy and climate change

Paul Driessen | February 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

by Paul Driessen and Patrick Moffitt In the wake of “Superstorm” Sandy, the political spin and distractions reached hurricane proportions. “It’s global warming, stupid,” declaredBloomberg BusinessWeek after monster winds and waves pounded New York and New Jersey. This storm should “compel all elected leaders to take immediate action” on climate change, New York City Mayor Michael [...]

Desperately trying to derail Canadian oil sands

Paul Driessen | January 28, 2013 | 0 Comments

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his state’s portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed were environmentally sensitive. The Alberta-to-Texas pipeline would create more than 5,500 Nebraska jobs during its construction period and support 1,000 permanent jobs through 2030. During the project’s lifetime, KXL [...]

Trampling on people, environment, science and ethics

Paul Driessen | January 14, 2013 | 0 Comments

Environmental policies and practitioners often hurt people and values they supposedly protect. Policy integrity. Ethical culture. Ethical investing. Environmental protection. Environmental defense. Friends of earth. Defenders of wildlife. Not just their names, but their charter, culture and policies – their very being – represent a commitment to these profound values. Or so we are supposed [...]

The political superstorm that devastated New York

Paul Driessen | December 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

Incompetence, stupidity, diversion, blame shifting, and false solutions to imaginary problems. “Superstorm” Sandy killed more than 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, and left millions without food, water, electricity, sanitation or shelter for days or even weeks. Our thoughts and prayers remain focused on its victims, many of whom are still grieving as [...]

The new robber barons

Paul Driessen | December 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

The Obama Gang is stealing our taxes, energy resources, revenues, jobs and economy. Even amid demands that Congress raise taxes on “millionaires,” to fund bloated government agencies and programs, President Obama and his Administration steadfastly refuse to permit leasing and drilling for our nation’s bountiful oil and gas resources – which would raise tens of [...]

Stop subsidizing the slaughter!

Paul Driessen | December 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

Terminate Big Wind’s Production Tax Credit to save eagles, bats, whooping cranes – and jobs. The impact of mandated, subsidized and “production tax credited” industrial wind facilities on eagles, whooping cranes, bats and other valuable species is horrendous, ecologically devastating, intolerable … and growing. In fact, it is infinitely worse than the widely quoted figure [...]

Obama’s Walt Disney energy policies

Paul Driessen | December 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

Wishes upon stars won’t make energy dreams come true – but will bring nightmares. In Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film “Pinocchio,” woodcarver Geppetto dreams that his wooden marionette will turn into a real boy. Geppetto’s hopes are immortalized in the song “When You Wish Upon a Star,” which begins: “When you wish upon a star/ [...]