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Arctic Updates
Some recent happenings in the Arctic: The Arctic Council will hold its biennial Ministerial Meeting on May 15. The Council is an intergovernmental body that attempts to addres...
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GAO: Climate Change Puts U.S. Agriculture at High Risk
For the first time, the February 2013 Government Accountability Office High-Risk Series Report lists climate change as a high financial risk factor for the U.S. government. Sp...
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USGS Releases New Estimates for Oil and Gas Reserves in Dakotas and Montana
On April 30, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released a new assessment for oil and gas reserves in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. The assessment includes n...
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National Security Advisor Tom Donilon's Speech on Foreign Policy in the Modern Energy Era
Last week, Tom Donilon, National Security Advisor to the President, spoke at the launch of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. In his speech, Donilon discuss...
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Shooting at Tennessee Nuclear Power Plant Highlights Physical Vulnerability of U.S. Electricity System
Security of the nation’s electrical system from cyber attacks has received much attention as of late, but a recent event reminds us of the vulnerabilities in physical security...
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Drivers of Instability and Conflict in Africa
Last week, I participated in the CCAPS Shifting Conflict Patterns in Africa: Drivers of Instability and Strategies for Cooperation conference, during which policymakers, pract...
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Happy Earth Day
Photo: Image of Earth taken during the Apollo 11 mission, which brought the first man to the moon in July 1969. Courtesy NASA....
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Photo of the Week
Photo: Two U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Enforcement Specialists provide security at Rowes Wharf in Boston on April 15. Boston-based Coast Guard units have increased their patrols...
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Hill Happenings
Capitol Hill was active in the energy security arena this week. On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and responded ...
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Energy and Water Security Priorities Move Ahead at U.S. Military Installations
On April 5, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the largest renewable energy project in U.S. military history is expected to begin soon at Fort Bliss, Texas. Once o...
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The United States and China to Increase Dialogue on Climate Change
Saturday marked John Kerry’s inaugural visit to China as acting Secretary of State. While North Korea’s most recent episode of belligerence took center stage and dominated the...
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Secretary of Energy Nominee Not Definitive on LNG Export Policy
President Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy, Ernest Moniz, received bipartisan support on the Hill on Tuesday and appears likely to sail through the confirmatio...
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Signing Off
After four years, it is bittersweet for me to close this chapter of my professional life. Today is my last day at CNAS and at the helm of the Natural Security program. Startin...
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The State of Play in East Africa’s Energy Sector
Move over, America. East Africa has emerged as the newest potential player in the future geopolitics of energy. From oil in Kenya to natural gas in Mozambique, a region long t...
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Biofuel Inches toward Commercial-Scale Production
Last week, the San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc. announced a commercial partnership with the San Antonio-based Tesoro to refine the company’s algae-based “green” crude oil...
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America Committed to Gulf Security Despite Changing Relationship with Region's Oil, says Gen. Dempsey
America’s relationship with the Middle East’s energy resources is changing as U.S. domestic oil production continues to grow. A combination of hydraulic fracturing, horizontal...
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Reforming Mexico’s Moribund Oil Industry
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the nationalization of Mexico’s oil industry. In a January post on EnergyTrendsInsider.com, I wrote that one of the top energy trends to wa...
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Voices from the Field: What the Frack?
I recently set out to learn more about the process of fracking, with an interest in the risks and the mitigation of risks, as well as the national security implications of Ame...
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Climate Change Tops List of Security Threats in Pacific, says ADM Locklear
Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, likely surprised many when he said that the biggest long-term security challenge in the Pacific is climate c...
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The American Oil Boom and African Security
National security and energy policy experts have long called on the United States to diversify its sources of oil imports. These experts correctly asserted that in a time of l...