Government Reports

GAO Report to Congressional Requesters

Energy Task Force

Process Used to Develop the National Energy Policy - Auguest 2003

Policy Report Was the Product of a Centralized, Top-Down Process
The National Energy Policy report was the product of a short-term, labor-intensive process that involved the efforts of several hundred federal employees governmentwide. In the 3½ months between NEPDG’s inception and its presentation of the final report, the Principals and Support Group controlled most facets of the report’s development, including setting meeting schedules and agendas, controlling the workflow, distributing work assignments, rewriting chapters, approving recommendations, and securing the report’s contents from premature disclosure. Report

 

Draft Oil Shale and Tar Sands

Resource Management Plan Amendments to Address Land Use Allocations in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement December 2007DES 07-60  Report - BLM's Tar Sands Report, 3 parts

 

NGO Report

The Most Destructive Project on Earth

Report - Few Canadians know that Canada is home to one of the world’s largest dams and it is built to hold toxic waste from just one Tar Sands operation. Ever ything about the Tar Sands happens on a massive scale. The enormous toxics problems go hand-in-hand with massive global warming pollution and the impending destruction of a boreal forest the size of Florida.

 

Because of sheer scale, all Canadians are impacted by the Tar Sands, no matter where they live. If you live downstream, your water is being polluted and your fish and wildlife may be dangerous to eat. If you live in Saskatchewan you are a victim of acid rain. If you live in BC, “supertankers” may soon be plying your shoreline carr ying Tar Sands oil to Asia. If you live in Ontario, you are exposed to harmful emissions from the refining of Tar Sands Oil. And the impacts do not stop at Canada’s border – US refineries are re-tooling to handle the dirty oil from Alberta.

 

Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Wells: A Threat to Drinking Water

Report - We strongly urge the Senate, in considering energy legislation, to reject section 604 of S. 1766.  
This provision would effectively overturn two U.S. Court of Appeals decisions by amending the Safe
Drinking Water Act (SDWA) to establish an unjustifiable 41-month moratorium on EPA regulation of
hydraulic fracturing of coalbed methane wells—a risky activity that should be regulated to assure
protection of public health and drinking water quality.  This provision is unnecessary because a recent
federal circuit court decision provides a flexible mechanism to regulate this activity’s impact on
underground sources of drinking water.

Educational Report

COMMUNITY ENERGY PLANNING TOOL

Report - A Community Energy Plan is a means for reviewing and evaluating community design options
for a more efficient and sustainable use of energy.  Since energy use is a component of every
community project, planning for energy and resource use can help communities achieve long-
term sustainability.  Taking steps to conserve energy and use energy more efficiently, while also
developing renewable resources, will reduce the environmental impacts of our energy use.  

This is a voluntary planning tool complementary to those already in use in your community.  The
development of the plan follows a long-term approach. The goal of this approach is to lead your
community towards a sustainable future. What that future looks like, and how it will be reached,
is decided by your community, during the planning process.  Through planning and strategy
implementation, communities have proven they can motivate and facilitate accelerated rates of
local energy conservation, efficiency, and renewable resource use. 

 

Frequently Asked Question, Coal Bed Methane (CBM)

Report - Kristin Keith and Jim Bauder, Montana State University-Bozeman
John Wheaton, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology (2003)