Monday, April 14, 2025

Fossil Fuel Powers Fortune’s Global 500

The top rung of Fortune Magazine’s 2014 Global 500 list is heavily skewed toward fossil fuel development and exploitation. Of Fortune’s ten largest global companies, half are integrated oil and gas companies. Two, Volkswagen and Toyota, are totally dependent upon petroleum for their success. Coming in at No. 7, State Grid Corp. is China’s state-owned electric utility, creating electrical energy

Will Political Windstorm Bring Wattenberg Development to a Halt?

Note: this is Part Two of a two-part series looking at the rapid pace of oil and gas development in Weld County in 2014. Click here to read Part One: Will Voters Kill Colorado’s Golden Goose? 2013 was a record year for oil production in Colorado: 64 million barrels were produced in the state. Weld County extracted 52 million of those