What Is Plan B?

Eradicate poverty, reforest the earth, restore fisheries, eliminate overgrazing, protect biological diversity, stabilize climate — Lester Brown says it’s all possible. …TM: In other words, we would take food out of the mouths of the poor and put it into the fuel tanks of the rich? LB: That’s right. One of the consequences of high […]

Bush Energy Plan Irks Critics from Free Market Camp

WASHINGTON – Critics lashed out at President Bush over his proposals to break America’s oil addiction, contending the plan will undercut the basis of America’s strong economy, misdirect the country’s energy reform priorities, or further poison an already fragile environment. In his State of the Union address Tuesday, Mr. Bush, a former Texas oilman, raised […]

Energy independence is tough and getting tougher

WASHINGTON “The goal is energy independence,” White House economic adviser Al Hubbard said Wednesday in a conference call with reporters. You’ve probably heard that before. Ever since President Richard Nixon launched Project Independence in 1974 (which was supposed to bring energy independence by 1980), oil analysts and economists have argued that it’s unrealistic. Dallas Morning […]

Why UK petrol prices remain high

Soaring profits at Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell and other oil firms have led to calls from motorists for station forecourt petrol prices to be cut. Shell’s figures come as motorists face prices of about 90p a litre at pumps. Some groups, such as the Fuel Lobby – which last year unsuccessfully tried to […]

Reducing Prices At Gas Pump Goal Of University Of Houston Engineers

Developing radios no larger than a grain of sand to increase the drilling efficiency of oil wells, University of Houston engineers see promise for reducing prices at the gas pump. “Our research could have a great impact on oil prices,” said Richard Liu, UH professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the university’s […]

Lecture series addresses politics of oil, water

PORTLAND, OR – If peak oil and global water politics are your thing, this year’s Illahee lecture series is bringing four authors and activists to Portland in coming months. The series, started in 1999, focuses on emerging environmental issues. This year’s theme is “Oil + Water: Running on Empty?” Tickets sold out for last week’s […]

Natural Gas Price Document Electrifies Energy Sector

Turkey On Wednesday Turkish Electrical Engineers Association

Switchgrass: The Super Plant Savior?

President Touts Alternative Fuel Ingredient, But When Will It Be Ready? Feb. 1, 2006 Close, but how close? Bush’s goal is to increase research into the production of ethanol using such elements as grass and wood chips, which could make it a cost-effective energy source by 2012. The White House says ethanol could potentially amount […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: Global Warming

A number of stories appeared in the press last week suggesting a discussion of the relationship between peak oil and global warming is in order. Most scientists believe that burning fossil fuels is the culprit behind global warming and if we don’t get carbon emissions down soon, a lot more places will be under water […]

Technology Won’t Solve America’s Oil Addiction, Experts Say

President’s State of the Union Speech ignores deeper problem of depleting oil supplies; real solution requires massive conservation, group says. San Francisco, CA – February 2, 2006 — AmericaKatz also points out that the United States consumes fully a quarter of the world

Alternative energy shares fall after Bush speech

Shares in alternative-energy companies fell on Wednesday, despite a push by U.S. President George W. Bush for decreased dependence on foreign oil, with ethanol companies in particular sinking after days of strong gains… In solar power, SunPower Corp. (SPWR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) was down 1.87 percent at $39.25. Jeffrey Bencik, an analyst with Jefferies and […]

Energy demand to more than double: Middle East

Primary energy demand will more than double in the Mena region by 2030 and to meet this demand countries within the region will have to invest on an average $56 billion per year in energy infrastructure alone, according to the World Energy Organisation. More efficient generation and use of energy top the agenda of governments […]

New production method uses far less energy than it creates

Making alcohol fuel efficiently enough to help the USA move away from gasoline could involve a process with a cumbersome name: cellulosic ethanol production. Just now in the demonstration stage, it has the potential to deliver ethanol using as little as one-tenth the energy that the fuel provides, according to a study by the University […]

The 75% solution

Replace 75% of US oil imports from the Mideast by 2025? Viewed in another way, this is not a “goal,” it is a prophesy. There is no way that the US will be importing as much oil from the Mideast in 2025 as it imports today. And there is no way that the nations of […]

Saab joins BEST Bioethanol project

BEST (BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport) is a four year project, partly funded by the European Union (EU), in which three vehicle manufacturers, ten locations, five bioethanol producers and four universities will cooperate cross-functionally to accelerate the introduction of bioethanol as alternative automotive fuel in Europe. The City of Stockholm is acting as a coordinator for […]

OPEC Hopes to Raise Spare Output Capacity

VIENNA, 2 February 2006 — OPEC hopes to increase its spare production capacity by 0.5 million barrels of crude per day by June, OPEC President Edmund Daukoru said here yesterday, referring to a key factor on oil markets. After meeting an Austrian delegation representing the presidency of the European Union, Daukoru said: “We hope to […]

Vietnam To Build 14 Energy Plants

Vietnam is building 14 hydroelectric plants to cover part of its energy demands for the next decades, said official sources on Wednesday. Vietnam is an important producer of hydrocarbons in South East Asia but due to savings and ecological reasons, the country wants to take advantage of its many large rivers…The size of the plan […]

Hurricane Debate

The 2,000-plus scientists at this week’s annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society had plenty to talk about, from last year’s droughts to flash floods and wildfires. But the biggest question at the meeting in Atlanta — why last hurricane season was the worst since recordkeeping began 151 years ago — was almost too hot […]

Bush misspoke about 75% reduction in Middle East

One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn’t mean it literally. What the president meant, they said in a conference call with reporters, was that alternative fuels […]

Ceres Publishes Corporate Toolkit for Managing Climate Change Risks

Ceres and the Investor Network on Climate Risk have published a 24-page socialfunds

New developments in Biofuels, Wind, Solar and Hydrogen announced

Royal Dutch Shell plc provided an update of its activities in alternative energy including Biofuels, Wind, Solar and Hydrogen. Shell has now invested over US$1 billion in alternative energies, making it one of the world’s leading companies in the sector. “In Shell, we aim to develop at least one alternative energy such as wind, hydrogen […]

Stealing from the future

In a powerful presentation to an international audience at the Global Mind, Global Soul, Global Action conference at Tamkang University in Taiwan, Professor Lowe emphasised that the future is not somewhere we are going, but something we are creating. “There are many possible futures. We should be trying to establish a future that can be […]

It’s capitalism or a habitable planet

Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change. Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production in a finite planet. And yet this ideological model remains the central organising […]

US Energy Secy Outlines Plan to Lower Dependence on Oil

To meet the goal of reducing U.S. dependence on Middle East oil, the Bush administration plans to propose a fiscal year 2007 budget that includes increased funding for research on clean coal, ethanol and renewable energy, U.S Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Wednesday. During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Bush announced the […]

OPEC Issues Warning on Bush Oil Pledge

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday warned that President George W. BushFinancial Times

Putin speaks about energy and Russia

On January 31, 2006 Putin speaks for 3 plus hours about the Russian Federation, economics, and much about energy. Translation is in English. For best results, do “save as…” Video part 1 wmv (217913 kb) Video part 2 wmv (141151 kb)

Governor Asks Coal Mines to Stop Production

Gov. Joe Manchin called for all coal companies in West Virginia to halt production and perform safety checks after two more mine workers were killed Wednesday in separate accidents. “We’re going to check for unsafe conditions, and we’re going to correct any unsafe conditions before we mine another lump of coal,” Manchin said.CNN

Renewable energy close, Bush says

President Bush has said alternative fuels to compete with petrol could be produced within six years. Speaking in Nashville, Mr Bush said that scientists were close to a breakthrough on making ethanol from materials such as grasses. Technology, he hoped, would help the US “reduce if not end” reliance on Middle Eastern oil in his […]

Reducing U.S. dependency on Middle East oil easier said than done

WASHINGTON – President Bush set a goal Tuesday night of reducing dependence on Middle East oil by 75 percent before 2025. Bush declared that the United States would lessen its dependence on foreign oil by replacing Middle East imports with alternative fuels such as ethanol made from corn. He also pledged to boost spending on […]

Fists fly during energy crisis debate

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Rival lawmakers in the Georgian capital’s city council brawled during a debate over the energy crisis suffered by the country in recent days.

… Much of the country was without gas and electricity for days after explosions on a Russia gas pipeline and after winter weather downed high-power electric lines.

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