Economic neo-liberalism vs political realism

Dubai Ports World, a state-owned United Arab Emirates company set to take over management of six United States ports has agreed to postpone its plans in the wake of harsh bipartisan criticism of the deal in the US Congress on national security grounds. In a statement released to the media on Thursday, the company said […]

Wicks must focus on oil and renewables to keep UK a powerhouse

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China and India to test oil demand with price reform

China and India are set in the coming weeks to take strides in tackling fuel price systems they see as obsolete, although it may be months before consumers’ ability to cope with higher costs is fully put to the test. The two thepeninsulaqatar

Save the planet – by taking your car on an alcohol-fuelled jaunt

Some British cars will soon fill up with ‘petrol’ made from sugar cane. It’s a modest first step on the road to cutting carbon emissions, writes Robin McKie. Not much to go on, you might think. However, for many engineers and green campaigners the experiment represents the tip of a very promising iceberg. According to […]

POWER STRUGGLE

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Soaring gas prices will lead to 7,000 layoffs in plastics sector

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Midwest the winner in new biofuel boom

On early mornings at East Kansas Agri-Energy, trucks pack the driveway loop to unload bushels of dry, yellow corn into a hopper. By nighttime, those kernels are ready to transform – they’ll turn into fuel. The U.S. ethanol industry now has 95 plants nationwide. Analysts say by 2012 it will almost double in volume, from […]

Enforced relocalization

Most relocalization planning (that is available on the net) is for an optimum, sustainable socio-economic configuration after a slow energy descent or powerdown. There seems to be hardly any focus upon forced relocalization as a result of a severe economic dislocation and hence relocalization planning akin to civil defense/disaster emergency preparedness. Enforced relocalization is perhaps […]

Peak oil: wolves in sheep’s clothing?

MATTHEW SIMMONS is not exactly an imposing figure. An unassuming man, his gentle voice bears the soft twang of Texan gentility. Blue eyes twinkle behind rusty cheeks as he reminisces: Mr. Simmons was highly dissatisfied with the information available from the Saudis about their oil capacity; they do not allow independent auditing of their

Peak Oil’s Threat to Public Health

SYNOPSIS: Excerpts from a presentation at the annual meetings of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, December 14, 2005 The world is near “Peak Oil,” the point where half of its recoverable oil has been consumed. Petroleum -and natural gas– provides fuel for transportation and machines, energy for heat and air conditioning; is used in […]

NIGERIA: Delta militants release hostage photos, threaten more attacks

WARRI, 24 Feb 2006 (IRIN) – Armed militants holding nine foreign oil workers hostage in Nigeria’s troubled Niger Delta, on Friday released photos of the captives for the first time but denied entering into talks with the government over their release. Photographs e-mailed to reporters showed the hostages, who have spent a week in captivity, […]

Natural Gas Consumption Booms in Istanbul

The natural gas consumption in Istanbul reached to 750 million cubic meters in January due to the cold weather stream from Siberia. The natural gas provider to metropolitan area, IGDAS, reached it’s highest sale rate in its 20-year history. Levent Tufekci, IGDAS General Manager, said Friday: “Our natural gas sale target for 2006 was 4.1 […]

Proposed Canadian gas pipeline questioned

IN COURT: Native group cites North Slope in seeking a delay. VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A Native group is asking the Federal Court of Canada to temporarily halt an environmental review of a $6 billion natural gas pipeline, which it says could affect their traditional way of life. The Dene Tha are a First Nations […]

Farm profits eroded by costs

CALIFORNIA – Rising fuel prices and increased interest rates are expected to cause a significant drop in the income of American farmers this year, following two years of unusually high prices and record crops, but in Mendocino County these factors will only add insult to the injury of several years of low earnings. “We’re not […]

Foiled Attack on Saudi Oil Sends Ominous Message

Damage to the world’s ‘jugular vein’ would have been disastrous. Anxiety is ever-present. …”This is a major-league deal,” said Matthew Simmons, an oil-industry consultant who has written a book about Saudi Arabia’s role in the world petroleum market. “This shows that the terrorists are acutely aware of where you want to go for the jugular […]

The Politics of Oil

Despite the warm winter and oil inventories being abnormally high, geopolitics still rule the day. After Friday’s explosion in Saudi Arabia that was intended to disrupt oil production, oil is up again on geopolitical concerns. Al Qaeda has sworn to harm the kindgdom’s oil infrastructure. It just so happens that most of the places we […]

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

“Try to image an airplane suddenly losing its engines. It was really a crash”… A crash that put Cuba into a state of shock. There were frequent blackouts in its oil-fed electric power grid, up to 16 hours per day. The average daily caloric intake in Cuba dropped by a third… So Cubans started to […]

Palm and rapeseed seen fencing in biofuel race

From Europe to Asia, green fuel plants are being put up at a dizzying pace as the world is told it cannot live without cheaper and renewable energy from vegetable oils with rising prices of crude oil. But few proponents of the projects are saying how much higher prices of rapeseed oil and palm oil […]

Al-Qaida Claims Attack on Saudi Refinery

Suicide bombers carried out a bold attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility Friday but were stopped from breaking in by guards who fired on their cars, exploding both vehicles and killing the attackers. Al-Qaida purportedly claimed responsibility for the attack, the first on an oil facility in Saudi Arabia. The assault raised speculation […]

Pond life: the future of energy

Genetic engineers have made a leap in developing a strain of algae with the potential to supply fuel for a future hydrogen economy, Wired reports. Unpublished work from the University of California at Berkeley may have brought the technology past the economically viable 10 per cent efficiency level. By shortening the chlorophyll stacks in the […]

Farmers’ profits dwindle as energy costs rise

Greene County dairyman Charles Buckner is energy-challenged. Last year, the energy bills for his 800-acre farm doubled to $24,000, from $12,000 in 2004. His fertilizer bills jumped 58 percent to $38,000, from $24,000. Buckner, like thousands of farmers across the country, is trying to cope with a dwindling income as higher energy prices bite deep […]

British Energy hit by series of outages

Surging power prices helped British Energy deliver strong third-quarter profits yesterday, but the group admitted that output fell below its expectations after a series of unplanned shutdowns. The nuclear generator said it continued to benefit from rocketing wholesale prices as adjusted operating profits reached Scotsman

Transforming Nigeria’s Oil And Gas Industry

Even as Nigeria assumes the Presidency of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on January 1, 2006 and a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) crude pipeline blown up in the Niger Delta killing at least eleven persons and denying the country the export of 170,000 barrels of crude per day, the management of the […]

China and India to test oil demand with price reform

China and India are set in the coming weeks to take strides in tackling fuel price systems they see as obsolete, although it may be months before consumers’ ability to cope with higher costs is fully put to the test. ..By changing the way prices are set, Beijing and New Delhi will be laying the […]

The Emissions and Energy Outlook for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles represent the second-largest consumer of energy in the US transportation sector, behind light-duty vehicles but ahead of every other transportation mode, according to the Energy Information Administration. By 2030, the transportation sector greencarcongress

Bush: World Will Not Allow Nuclear Weapons in Iran

President Bush says the international community will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. The president is asking Congress for $75 million to help bring about democratic change in Iran. President Bush says Iran is secretly developing a nuclear weapons program. Iran says its uranium enrichment activities are for the purpose of generating electricity. With […]

New scientific theory, hydrate hypothesis, suggests global warming catastrophe

A recent scientific theory called the “hydrate hypothesis” says that historical global warming cycles have been caused by a feedback loop, where melting permafrost methane clathrates (also known as “hydrates”) spur local global warming, leading to further melting of clathrates and bacterial growth. In other words, like western Siberia, the 400 billion tons of methane […]

Tapping Rocks for Power

A European consortium is drawing closer to building a megawatt-scale power plant that uses bedrock heat. By fracturing granite bedrock located five kilometers below the surface and pumping in super-saline water, a team of French, German, and Swiss engineers are extracting the rock’s thermal energy, and they plan to use it to produce pollution-free electricity. […]

Can fungi trim the gasoline habit?

Souped-up microscopic fungi could help cut the U.S. gasoline habit by converting a billion tons of agricultural waste into domestic fuel, while also slashing greenhouse gas emissions. To make cellulosic ethanol, enzymes spewed from fungi convert cellulose from the fibrous parts of plants, such as stalks, into sugar that then is fermented. In traditional ethanol, […]

Here Comes Lunar Power

It’s not on Bush’s alternative-energy agenda yet, but moon-driven tides, ocean currents, and waves generate more oomph than wind and are more consistent than solar. With its vast stretches of shoreline, the U.S. has some 2,300 terawatt-hours of potential near-shore wave power, estimates EPRI. That’s more than eight times the yearly output of the nation’s […]

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