Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
OPEC, producer of more than a third of the world’s oil, and the European Union plan to hold twice- yearly meetings to discuss how to maintain a stable oil price acceptable to producing and consuming countries.
China has abruptly slowed and halted work on building 22 major dams
and power stations in a dramatic greening of the policies of the
world’s most populous nation.
In 15 year’s time — and much sooner if the economy continues to explode — China will overtake the US as the world’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gases. Now, this does not mean that by 2020 it will be a rich country with most people owning cars or using air conditioning like in the US or Europe.
Foreign-controlled companies in Russia will no longer be allowed to develop major natural resource deposits, Russian Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev said on Feb. 10.
On the energy front, policy makers don’t know about, have forgotten about, have deliberately ignored, or decided to throw out The Precautionary Principle. And in doing so, they are jeopardising the future of the planet
Russia says it plans to sell weapons in exchange for oil and gas, a Russian news agency reported.
A thorough introduction to fundamentals of significance of oil peak that lets the Howard government off pretty light. Fails to mention Australias own rapid decline from peak of the
Readers should have no delusions about the state of New Zealand; it is being driven off the energy cliff in an orgy of consumption.
The hydrogen economy is really a nuclear economy. Investors and the rest of corporate America may not realise how close the country is to making a gigantic bet on a nuclear future.
Expansion of gas wells in Rocky Mountain states will degrade the air at several national parks.
…as growing demand for natural gas outstrips North America’s conventional supplies, many experts view imports of LNG as the only way to head off decades of soaring prices for businesses and the tens of millions of households that rely on the fuel for heat and electricity.
The outgoing chairman of Shell has announced he wants to take up a post with a climate-change charity when he quits the oil giant later this year, writes Jonathan Leake.
