Review: Tar Sands by Andrew Nikiforuk

If you’ve been following energy news with a discerning eye, then you already know better than to buy into all the hype about the Canadian tar sands…Far from being a panacea for declining supplies of conventional oil, the sands could…leave Alberta resembling “a third-rate golf course in the Sudan”…The quote comes from Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book Tar Sands, a powerful, eloquent litany of horrors associated with North America’s frenzied dash toward tar sands bitumen.

Review of A Presidential Energy Policy by Mike Ruppert

As with nearly all of Mike’s writing over the years, some parts are resoundingly liberal and resemble FDR’s New Deal, and some parts echo a conservative Republican or Libertarian approach simply because Mike’s overarching concern has always been to “implement policies that will keep the nation functioning and that will protect the American people and the world as a whole.”