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Michael James Barton

Michael James Barton is the founder of Hyatt Solutions and speaks around the country on energy and energy security matters. He previously served as the deputy director of Middle East policy at the Pentagon.

Environmentally speaking, pipelines are better than trains to ship fuel

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Sixteen-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg admonished global leaders at last year’s United Nations: “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”  But it’s her parents who are daring. Why terrorize children with fairy tales of mass…

Saudi oil attacks were a warning

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When drones struck Saudi Arabia’s oil processing facilities in September, 6 percent of global oil production went offline overnight.   The intent was clear: create a massive disruption in the global oil market, sending prices soaring and leaving the United States and its allies reeling.   What happened next — or rather what didn’t — was no…

The Keystone Pipeline will be a big boost to Oklahoma and U.S.

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The decade-long fight over Keystone XL, a 1,179-mile underground oil pipeline that would carry crude from Canada to Nebraska, just took another surprising turn. In June, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction and allowed the long-delayed construction project to move forward. But environmentalists quickly threw up new frivolous roadblocks. The U.S. Army…