Average U.S. gasoline prices hit $3.89 a gallon on October 17, up about 20 cents from a month ago, 56 cents higher than last year at this time, and $1.35 a gallon higher than when Biden took office on January 20, 2021. In March, gasoline prices hit $4 a gallon […]
Summit Carbon Solutions filed its application for a siting certificate with the North Dakota Public Service Commission this week. The company plans to capture carbon dioxide emissions from ethanol plants in five Midwestern states and pipe the CO2 to western North Dakota for permanent underground storage. The project will reduce the […]
This week the American Energy Alliance released its American Energy Scorecard for the United States Senate. The AEA scorecard scores voting and co-sponsorship decisions on legislation affecting energy and environmental policy, educating voters on how their senators vote and holding members accountable for those decisions. This year’s Senate scorecard compiles […]
Since the COVID Shutdowns more and more workers are working remotely and online. This workplace freedom is creating all sorts of new cost and productivity issues in areas and departments they’ve traditionally only seen in sales and executive levels. Those departments were, and are, given a little bit of slack […]
Terry Etam, author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, columnist for the BOE Report and writer for Public Energy Number One, gives an update on the oil and gas activity north of the border. Canada’s Greatest Export shares a story about the […]
Here are this week’s guests for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 480. The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin interviews Harold Hamm, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Continental Resources, after he spoke at Wildcatters Wednesday at The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma. Hamm talks about the importance […]
In response to President (Joe) Biden designating Camp Hale as a national monument, Western Energy Alliance today called on him to end policies threatening future conservation funding. The Denver-based trade association cautioned that programs under the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), which are funded almost exclusively by federal oil and natural […]
I’d like to tell you a personal story about how and why I stopped posting pictures of my child on the Internet. It was about halfway through my son’s 7th grade year in middle school when he asked me to stop posting pictures of him online because “he wanted to […]
Dr. Loren Scott just finished his annual Economic Forecast for the State of Louisiana and the news is the economy is going to get better, but first it’s going to get worse. The interview explains why from OPEC to European gas to natural disasters to Biden’s policy’s. “People should be […]
The Lakes Area Precious Plastics Lab and Springboard for the Arts have concluded their public showing of “Future Fossils,” a temporary land art project that is one of dozens across the Upper Midwest participating in the initiative, 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial. The project was designed to raise awareness around […]
The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming is proposing 251,086 acres over 209 parcels in an upcoming oil and gas lease sale. BLM Wyoming’s second quarter 2023 oil and gas lease sale will be conducted in accordance with measures required by the federal Inflation Reduction Act, which became law in August […]
How your tax dollars and fear are used by Appointed Leaders and Elected Politicians to manipulate their information and your reality. By Jason Spiess, ESG University Who remembers Y2K? What do you remember about the global two-digit computer issue? Let’s take a minute and see how Y2K is vetted through […]
Here are this week’s guests for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 479. Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest and Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations explain what the EVolution Hybrid is all about. Curtis Shuck, Chairman, Well Done Foundation gives an update from Midland, Texas as well as their […]
Activity in the oil and gas sector expanded at a strong pace in the third quarter, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The business activity index—the survey’s broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh District energy firms—remained elevated at 46.0 but below the 57.7 […]
The national average pump price for a gallon of gas maintained its recent surge, rising seven cents over the past week to hit $3.79. Tight supply and increased demand as more drivers fuel up are the main culprits. “The regional differences in gas prices are stark at the moment, with […]
This past April, ESG University penned, and then typed an ESG Classroom Column predicting a European trend that would be coming to the United States soon. And it did. Here’s what I wrote in April titled “An ESG World Premiere! Coming Soon To A Regulation Near You”. New sales of […]
Volunteers of all ages grabbed shovels and planted 150 trees for the 150th anniversary of Bismarck at New Generations Park. City of Bismarck Forester Doug Wiles kicked off the event with a short speech, followed by former Mayor Steve Bakken. Bakken thanked The Crude Life and The Industrial Forest for […]
Is your Social Media Manager managing your media or just being social? A little over a decade ago, the role of a social media manager was probably not one of your job titles around the office. Today, however, nearly all companies have a page, nearly every employee is involved in […]
Here are this week’s guests for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 478. Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest and Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations explain what the EVolution Hybrid is all about. Curtis Shuck, Chairman, Well Done Foundation gives an update from Midland, Texas as well as their […]
The Department of the Interior today announced that the Proposed Notice of Sale for Lease Sale 258 in Cook Inlet, Alaska will be available for review in the Federal Register tomorrow. In the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Congress directed that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) hold Lease Sale […]
The Industrial EVoultion has begun in the Bakken oilfields. In the heart of the Bakken, TrainND Northwest has taken on a project to help transition fossil fuel jobs and training into a hybrid world. “One of the things we looked at with the EVolution Hybrid is the future of the […]
Curtis Shuck has been extremely busy the past three years plugging orphan wells, monitoring methane levels and cutting through government bureaucracy. This past April, on Earth Day, The Crude Life interviewed Shuck regarding his recent orphan well work in Ohio and Louisiana, and Texas was off the radar due to […]
It is time to for all of us here to be adults and have an ESG Conversation about children. Currently children make up almost one-third of the world’s population and have major influence over the marketplace, legislation and corruption. Yes corruption. Believe it or not there are some people who […]
Part Two of Four covering the historical changes, issues, government intervention and solutions to America’s economy. Article originally appeared in ESG University We had to call an audible on Part Two of Four with this ESG University Classroom Column. Originally we were going to explain how the oil and gas […]
People say things are bigger in Texas and in this case it’s savings at the gas pump. New numbers from AAA Texas show the statewide gas price average is $3.21 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel which is 13 cents lower than last week. The national average for a […]
Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Global Retail Oil and Gas Logistics Market 2022-2026” – 1% during the forecast period. Our report on the retail oil and gas logistics market provides a holistic analysis, market size and forecast, trends, growth drivers, and challenges, as well as vendor analysis covering […]
It’s Back-To-School with Executive Coach, Podcaster and Professional Speaker Joe Sinnott of Witting Partners and The Energy Detox Podcast as he talks with Jason Spiess about the shift in the workplace, home life and society. The two discuss how the shift in energy can make the workplace a completely new […]
The Heritage Foundation launched a digital campaign this week, “ESG Hurts,” which is intended to “expose the agenda of the Environmental, Social, and Governance movement”. The campaign provides background information on the dangers of ESG, and also includes model state legislation for lawmakers looking to protect state pensions, investments and contracts. […]
Governments and non-profits have killed over 50% of the trees planted in the past 20 years, now corporations are killing them too. Originally published in at ESG University Did you know half the trees planted by non profits and city governments die within the first year? That’s billions of dollars […]
TrainND Northwest and The Industrial Forest have signed a major deal to create a new social media procedure that will incorporate new voices in the workplace, ideas to promote inclusion and a diversity of employee requirements. The training organization and modern media company have agreed that creating a “social media […]
Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest, joins Jason Spiess to talk about their “$2.8M grant” they were able to obtain from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) as well as their Drone Light Show in Williston after the Babe Ruth World Series. The “sustainability” grant is funded by the American Rescue […]
Tom Shepstone, founder of NaturalGasNow, joins Jason Spiess to discuss some of the activity happening on the eastern portion of the United States, specifically the Marcellus Utica Appalachia Basins. “In terms of regulations, we are still involved with the Delaware Basin Commission to allow us to drill on our side […]
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today his list of financial companies that boycott energy companies. Listed companies are subject to the divestment provisions outlined in Texas Government Code Chapter 809, which defines a financial company as a publicly traded financial services, banking or investment company. The publication of the list, […]
Kunal Patel is a senior business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas joins Jason Spiess for an update on the oil and gas activity in the 11th District, including the Permian Basin in Texas. Activity in the oil and gas sector expanded at a robust pace in second […]
United States Air Force Veteran Mark J. Lindquist joined Jason Spiess live from the Ukraine with a boots on the ground report for media platforms The Crude Life and the Bismarck-Mandan KLXX SUPERTALK 1270AM. “Jason, our here in the Ukraine, we call this the first Instagram War,” Lindquist said. “This war is […]
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