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Smoking gun: AEC told President Kennedy why coal industry was opposed to...
It’s been quite a while since my last smoking gun post on Atomic Insights. It may be time to revive the series to remind nuclear energy advocates to follow the money and know their opponents. In the...
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Smoking gun – Antinuclear talking points coined by coal interests
Some of the earliest documented instances of opposition to the development of commercial nuclear power in the United States originated from designated representatives of the coal industry. They were...
View ArticleEsso Italiana paid political parties for specific “corporate objectives”...
In 1972, an Exxon internal audit disclosed that Esso Italiana, Exxon’s Italian subsidiary, had been making payments to Italian political parties that were tied by amount to specific corporate...
View ArticleAntinuclear activists are too modest
Jim Conca has published a couple of recent posts on Forbes.com about the premature closure of nuclear power plants in the United States. One titled Are California’s Carbon Goals Kaput? focuses on some...
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Atom and the Fault
I came across a fascinating little book by Richard Meehan titled The Atom and the Fault: Experts, Earthquakes and Nuclear Power. It was published in 1984 by MIT University Press. Meehan is a...
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“Greens” fighting Pebble mine are helping Rio Tinto, Anglo-American and BHP...
I came across an interesting saga yesterday. My introduction came from a May 14, 2015 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal titled The Greens’ Back Door at the EPA. (Hint: If you don’t have a WSJ...
View ArticleStanford’s University’s New Natural Gas Initiative
It is virtually impossible to get an educational institution to understand something when its revenue depends on its audience not understanding it. – Rod Adams, Stanford’s New Natural Gas Initiative,...
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Following the money: who’s funding Stanford’s Natural Gas Initative
A few days ago, I wrote about Stanford University’s new Natural Gas Initiative (NGI) and described why I thought the existence of that program helped to explain why some prominent Stanford professors...
View ArticleStanford climate scientists promote 100% renewable revolution using natural...
We’ve been repeatedly told that 97% of climate scientists agree that CO2 emissions from human activity are a major cause of climate change. Scientists who question that assertion are villified as...
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How would a Rockefeller crony react to Eddington’s vision of subatomic energy?
Recently an Atomic Insights reader shared a document that inspired a new line of thinking about the chronology of atomic energy development. The inspirational document was a PDF copy of a chapter...
View ArticleWhy would UBS root for Entergy’s Merchant Nukes to Close?
UBS Investment Bank holds a large portfolio of loans to companies involved in extracting natural gas using the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Because of the healthy fees...
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More financial motives for UBS’s effort to encourage nuclear plant...
Yesterday, I wrote a quick post that linked a recently issued UBS report’s negative views about the economic viability of merchant nuclear power plants in the US to UBS’s large portfolio of troubled...
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Rockefeller Foundation’s hefty influence on education. Propagating fears...
In my continuing efforts to produce a narrative about the way that the public was taught to be afraid of ionizing radiation, no matter how low the dose, I came across an interesting write up in the...
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Corporate environmental contributions: Greenwashing or worse?
Ken Silverstein posted a thought-provoking piece on Forbes.com titled Being ‘Good Neighbors’ And Staying Out Of Print Motivates Companies To Be Environmental Stewards. The following quote stimulated...
View ArticleNatural gas burners file suit challenging fairness of New York Zero Emission...
A coalition of electric power producers that operate natural gas-burning generation plants have filed suit in the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York. They are challenging the New York...
View ArticlePennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association and Marcellus Shale...
The Beaver Valley (PA) Times has published an important article titled Group forms to oppose bailout of struggling nuclear power industry. That article needs to be read and retained by those of us who...
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Above board competition in energy markets finally emerging. API Ohio pushing...
In a break from its historical tactic of quietly enabling surrogates, the US petroleum industry has started to openly engage in battles to suppress use of atomic fission. The Ohio division of the...
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How did leaders of the Hydrocarbon Establishment build the foundation for...
On December 8, 1953 President Eisenhower announced to the UN that the US knew how to harness atomic energy to produce useful power. He stated that the US was willing to widely share that knowledge. He...
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How did an oil shale investor hamstring his atomic energy competition?...
During the contentious effort that resulted in passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, Sen Eugene D. Milliken (R-CO) played an important role in establishing an attempted US government monopoly over...
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Oil and gas opposition to consolidated interim spent fuel (CISF) storage...
Image from campaign against CISF An article titled “US sweetens pot to study siting for spent nuke fuel storage” was published in the January 26, 2023 edition of the Washington Post. The article...
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