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2/5/2010 - Houston Chronicle News Watch: Energy

As more communities with gas drilling in their backyards start to worry about what's in the fluids used to crack open shale formations, some companies are taking steps to make those waters cleaner. Devon Energy is leading the way, according to the folks at Greening of Oil:

Devon Energy said it has been able to recycle a small percentage of the nearly 4 million gallons of wastewater produced per well in North Texas' Barnett Shale.

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Ken Edelstein

2/3/2010 - Mother Nature Network

As MNN blogger Jim Motavalli notes, Greening of Oil magazine may be a good thing. It’s an industry-based online publication dedicated to reporting “what is being done to make natural gas, oil and coal more earth-friendly energy sources during what is expected to be a decades-long shift to cleaner and cleaner power.”

So Greening of Oil’s mission may indeed represent progress, because so much of the fossil fuels industry is in a denial about the shift. And the journalism itself seems credible. More...

The Mirror

1/26/2010 - University of Northern Colorado

Magazines and newspapers dedicated to specific topics advocate addressing an issue important to the staff and audience they cater to. Although sometimes it may seem like biased reporting is afoot, using print media writing or news writing is still an effective way to construct a report — regardless of technological advances in broadcast.

Even though newspapers are dying and magazine ad revenue is falling, as well, online publications detailing the story with facts not surfaced by brief recorded segments inform audiences much more effectively.

This is evident in last Tuesday’s launch of the new online magazine Greening of Oil, a publication dedicated to educating the public and oil companies about cleaning up oil and making it an earth-friendly fuel.

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1/22/2010 - BNET

Every year, the U.S. uses 100 quadrillion BTUs of energy, and despite inroads by renewables like wind and solar, 83 quadrillion BTUs still comes from fossil fuels. More...

Organization dedicated to identifying barriers to clean energy

1/20/2010 - Oil Industry International

No one would like to consider their job to be an oxymoron, essentially a contradiction in terms. More...

Assignment 2020, Climate Change, Energy, Environment

1/20/2010 - Mother Jones

First, it was "green coal." Now oil is apparently going green too. More...

Alternative fuel views, daily news and insights

1/19/2010 - Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute

Ready or not, the holidays are now out of the way and we get to shift our attention back to Congressional antics. More...

Blogging the business of energy with Tom Fowler

1/15/2010 - Houston Chronicle News Watch: Energy

Considering how little of our energy comes from renewable sources, there are ample online news and opinion sources that look at 'green energy.' More...

2/10/2010 - What a bunch of crap.  Aren't you aware that global warming and all the hoopla over CO2, etc. has been thoroughly discredited and shown to be both a fraud and a hoax? More...

1/18/2010 - I'm an avid Petroleum News reader and just visited the site of your newest publication, the Greening of Oil. More...

3/5/2010 - HEADED TO ANTARCTICA … By now you’ve heard our big news: Greening of Oil has launched an Antarctica expedition blog — in English AND Arabic. Qatari engineer Abdulla AlMisnad, who works for Shell, is joining polar explorer Robert Swan’s 2041 team to the southernmost continent. Abdulla will be posting a daily log of his adventures, including photos and interviews with other team members More...

2/26/2010 - MARCHING ON WASHINGTON, D.C. … More than 1.6 million people have joined the “Pickens Army.” Intrigued? T. Boone Pickens says the United States paid more than $27 billion for foreign oil in January, based on figures from the federal Energy Information Administration. No surprises there since the country imports 60 percent of its oil! More...

2/19/2010 - SNAKE OIL SCIENCE … If you’re interested in reading a response to Sarah Palin and others who raised a ruckus about “snake oil science” when referring to climate change, here’s a response from one of the people in charge of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fourth assessment—the report that contained the error about the amount of melting anticipated for Himalayan glaciers: Setting the climate record straight. Not offering an opinion. Just some alternative reading. Let me know what you think. More...

2/12/2010 - BILL STREEVER IN SPOTLIGHT … A statistician may not be moved, but I was pleased to see people respond positively to our Bill Streever story. No backlash regarding ecologist Streever as a “sellout,” or worse, just real people with not-so-typical jobs in the oil industry who also feel they've had a positive impact More...

2/5/2010 - SPEAK SLOWLY, IN SIMPLE SENTENCES … On Feb. 1 Financial Times’ Energy Source blog ran an article that said natural gas producers “have started to contemplate exporting natural gas from the US.” The only actual producer quote supporting the reporter’s claim came from a 174-word statement by Russ Ford, Royal Dutch Shell’s executive vice president for onshore gas. More...

1/29/2010 - RUBBING SHOULDERS WITH AL GORE … In Greening of Oil’s quest to determine how “clean” coal can get, our reporter’s trail took her to Saskatchewan, Canada, to Dr. Malcolm Wilson, an expert in carbon capture and storage technology at the University of Regina. More...

Join Qatari engineer Abdulla AlMisnad on his voyage to Antarctica with polar explorer Robert Swan’s 2041 team; photos and daily logs in English and Arabic

Anchorage, Alaska—March 2, 2010—Students, age 10 to 100, are invited to join Qatari engineer Abdulla AlMisnad on his two-week voyage to Antarctica with polar explorer Robert Swan’s 2041 expedition, starting March 5 on Greening of Oil’s Web site. 

Abdulla will write a daily log of his adventures in Arabic (under construction) and English (ready to view) on Greening of Oil’s Antarctica expedition blog site More...

Magazine publishes synopses, links to papers that address any aspect of oil, natural gas, coal and alternative power

Anchorage, Alaska—Feb. 16, 2010—Greening of Oil magazine publishes synopses and links to graduate and final project papers that address an aspect of the energy industry.

The online magazine’s energy writers and scientists review all submissions and publish those that most effectively analyze and communicate a topic of relevance to the evolving energy sector. More...

Author of “Cold,” a New York Times bestseller praised by environmentalists, wants to see more biologists work for industry

Anchorage, Alaska—Feb. 10, 2010—Why is ecologist Bill Streever, author of the New York Times bestseller “Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places,” working for Big Oil?

Because he is making a difference. More...

Greening of Oil series focuses on CCS as global demand for emission cuts intensifies

Anchorage, Alaska – Feb. 3, 2010 – Veteran journalist Rose Ragsdale is online magazine Greening of Oil’s resident mining authority.

A longtime Alaska reporter and editor, Ragsdale is the editor-in-chief of North of 60 Mining News and a regular freelance contributor for Petroleum News. All three publications are owned by parent company Petroleum Newspapers of Alaska. More...

Online publication tracks the environmental footprint of the energy industry

Anchorage, Alaska - Jan. 14, 2010 - Anchorage-based Petroleum News has launched a new, international online magazine at www.greeningofoil.com. More...