CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 24, 2018 What is believed to be the largest oil and natural gas reserve ever assessed in the United States has been discovered in Texas and New Mexico, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders The United States has resumed its role as the world energy model. For the first time in decades, the “fracking” boom has not only propelled the U.S. into energy self sufficiency but again offered opportunities for export. Fracking is the process of injecting liquid at high pressure into […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 The Trump administration said it is re-evaluating Obama-era land management policy that kept millions of acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska off limits to drilling. The Interior Department announced it is looking at areas of the 22.1-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) that can be opened for oil […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2018 While the Left has been quick to attribute the deadly California wildfires to climate change, forestry analysts say poor land management and environmental regulations which limited logging are the main reasons behind the increase in devastating wildfires. Gov. Jerry Brown said wildfires were part of a “new normal” because of […]