An Interdisciplinary MIT Study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. Identifies numerous economic and technical problems with the energy source, but concludes governments should invest anyway.
John H. Large and Myele Schneider. Oxford Research Group. Reviews risk scenarios for nuclear plants in various countries and concludes risks there are important gaps in the security profile of the plants.
International Center for Technology Assessment. Review of costs of defending oil shipments from the Persian Gulf and other sources, such as Colombia. Also includes Strategic Petroleum Reserve and other domestic security maintenance services in shipping lanes and roads.
Dominique Guellec and Bruno van Pottelsberghe, OECD Publications. This document attempts to quantify the aggregate net effect of government funding on business R&D in 17 OECD Member countries over the past two decades.
Conference sponsored by the United States Department of Energy
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1/6/2009
Conference sponsored by the United States Department of Energy, 4-5 March 2002, Arlington, VA. To assist U. S. Department of Energy offices to improve their estimates of the benefits of their R&D programs.
Thomas Kåberger, presentation at the First Asia Pacific Green Power Conference, Tokyo. Spending government money on research and development has helped develop technologies for utilization of renewable energy. Systems of subsidies have made it possible to have the technologies demonstrated.
Joshua Skov and Nancy Myers, Science and Environmental Health Network. Free access to groundwater resources for coal risks is depleting the scarcest resource in the West (water) to produce subsidized gas. Since groundwater is a common resource crossing many property lines, there is little logic for…
James R. Kuipers. All the states require some form of "reclamation bonding" to ensure that mining operations are conducted responsibly and reduce their liability in the event mining companies fail to fulfill their responsibilities. Bonding levels may be inadequate or insufficiently enforced. Kuipers…
Robert Repetto. The adequacy of Canadian and US mining companies' disclosures of material environmental information were found to be deficient, especially in the disclosure to investors of known material environmental risks and liabilities.
Produced by Revenue Watch of the Open Society Institute, the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University, and the International Budget Project. Guidance manual for how to track oil and gas revenues using government budget documents.