Global Warming: Be Very Afraid

An interview with Elizabeth Kolbert When Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer for The New Yorker, surveyed the world’s leading climate scientists, she discovered an alarming unanimity to their message: The world needs to wake up, and fast. .. WN: You quote a Nature study predicting that 15 percent to 37 percent of the species on […]

Nigeria: Militants Give Condition for Oil Production

Militants operating in the creeks of the Niger Delta yesterday vowed that resumption of production of over 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude oil closed down in the wake of the crises in the region would not be allowed to resume until the Federal Government meets their 10-point demands. This is coming on a day […]

Europeanisation of Russia needed for EU energy security, Piebalgs says

The adoption of a European-type market economy in Russia and beyond would help create stable energy markets and extra wealth for suppliers while spreading energy benefits from billionaires to ordinary citizens, energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs explained in an interview on Tuesday (28 March), prioritising foreign policy over single market goals in the EU’s new Energy […]

Shenzhen encourages energy saving

Shenzhen of south China’s Guangdong Province will support the construction of energy-saving buildings to achieve a sustainable economy, Shenzhen Vice Mayor Lu Ruifeng said yesterday. Lu is presently leading a 60-member Shenzhen delegation in Beijing to promote Shenzhen-made products at an international expo on green buildings and energy-saving products, which opened yesterday. The Shenzhen booths […]

Angola’s oil rich province to get special status

Angolan Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade has said that Cabinda province would be granted a special status as part of negotiations to end secessionist fighting in the oil-rich area. “The situation in Cabinda compels the government to adopt measures including the creation of a special status for the province,” Da Piedade told parliament…Sub-Saharan Africa’s second […]

Turkey worries over safety of carrying crude oil through its straits

Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler said in Ankara Tuesday that carrying oil through the Turkish Straits has reached to a very critical and dangerous level regarding environmental, social, physical and economic reasons. ..”Amount of crude oil carried through the Turkish Straits increases gradually each year. This situation poses a serious environmental threat […]

Clean energy is in sight if deadlock can be broken

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Peak oil, coal, and bizarre optimism

So last week Salon ran a big story on peak oil by Katharine Mieszkowski. It was decent, though focused a bit too much on the loony fringes. I guess the temptation to do that is irresistible when trying to make a long story about the Hubbert Curve and Venezuelan oil reserves compelling. Quiggen’s point, briefly, […]

The Americans are losing militarily in Iraq but they are winning the war on the economic front through privatizing Iraq Jang

China Pushing Oil to $100 Per Barrell May be Bad

Imagine for a minute that itprweb

End our dependence on fossil fuels

Since the Arab oil embargo in 1973, the United States has gotten more new energy from efficiency than from all net expansions of domestic energy supplies put together. Efficiency is step one. Displacing fossil fuels with renewable sources is step two. We found that the tools for curing oil dependence can also revitalize manufacturing. Americans […]

Obasanjo to Convene Meeting on Oil-Rich Delta

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has decided to call a meeting next week aimed at resolving the four-month crisis in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta that has cut the country’s oil production by a quarter, his spokeswoman Oluremi Oyo said on Tuesday. Obasanjo is due to convene the meeting, titled Leaders of Thought of the Niger […]

Clinton man offers classes on homebrewing biodiesel

As President Bush emphasizes the need for the United States to reduce its dependence on foreign oil, T.J. Houston of Clinton already has taken the first step. Houston researched the process of making qctimes

Fusion as energy source debated

Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun and the stars, is a potentially viable solution to the global energy challenge, and is an alternative that must be fully explored, industry experts say. In the wake of the June 2005 announcement that the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor will be constructed in Caradache, France, interest in […]

Making Our Food Fuel Isn’t the Answer

Economics has only four basic principles: marginality, elasticity, substitution and time preference. And as anyone who ever completed a basic course can attest, prices are set at the margin. It is the price offered for the last unit produced and the cost of producing the last unit that really matter. These principles from the so-called […]

UK Cuts its Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Target for 2010

The UK has published a new Climate Change Programme (CCP06) that the government expects to reduce the countrygreencarcongress

CEO Alliance Calls for More US Natural Gas Supplies

Assembled at a news conference in Washington on Tuesday, five chief executives of natural gas producers and industrial natural gas consumers called on the Bush Administration and Congress to take immediate action to help increase US natural gas supply. “There is no shortage of natural gas in this country,” said Anadarko CEO Jim Hackett. “In […]

Do We Have Enough Gas to Burn? (Pakistan)

The government has also planned to offer incentives to investors to introduce CNG buses in major cities. As many as 10,000 cars and other vehicles with CNG-fitted kits are being added to our roads every month. PakistanPakTribune

Halliburton Overcharged for Iraq Oil Work – Report

Oil services company Halliburton Co. repeatedly overcharged taxpayers and provided substandard cost reports under a $1.2 billion contract to restore Iraq’s southern oil fields, according to a new report by U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman. Waxman, a California Democrat, said Democratic staff members of the House Committee on Government Reform examined a series of government audits […]

Oil Rises to 7-Week High on Forecast of Gasoline Supply Decline

Simmons: Crude oil today is “preposterously cheap” Crude oil rose to a seven-week high on speculation that a government report will show U.S. gasoline inventories fell for a fourth straight week. U.S. stockpiles of gasoline and distillate fuel, a category that includes heating oil and diesel, probably dropped last week, according to a Bloomberg News […]

Server Consolidation and Power Issues Top Server Priorities

TheInfoPro has released Wave 2 of its Server Study, showing that server consolidation is the top priority for server professionals, while power and energy issues pose the greatest challenges. Ironically, spending on blades servers is expected to grow more than for any other hardware technology, enabling consolidation, but exacerbating the energy crisis, notes TheInfoPro (TIP). […]

Shell boss pumps up students

Firm to add 500 jobs every year, CEO tells U of S students …”We will never run out of oil and gas. That’s not the issue,” he said. “The issue is not supply, the issue is cost and environmental impact. “In Western Canada, the resources are so big that I wouldn’t even think about how […]

Hybrid cars may not be green machines

Battery-powered cars may be better for the environment, but not for consumers The questionable economic benefits notwithstanding, hybrids are growing in popularity. They accounted for 1.2 percent of auto sales last year, more than double its market share in 2004. And they

2005 Hottest Year on Record

The temperature data for 2005 provide further evidence of what some scientists are calling a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which human activities are the main driver of the global climate system. The amount that temperatures increase depends on what we do from now on to curb emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We can continue to use climate-disrupting fossil fuels or we can choose to shift to renewable energy sources and more-energy-efficient technologies.

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Congestion Pricing For Smart Streets

What a concept: Smart Streets. Streets that perform more than serve as a conduit for polluting, oversized, noisy, and dangerous automobile traffic. Streets that are pleasant and friendly. Streets that truly serve the bustling commerce where people find goods they desire. Streets that can be destinations for people, instead of something to be feared, traversed […]

Heart of Borneo: Conservation vision gives hope to treasure island

The “Heart of Borneo” conservation initiative was officially launched today with the three Bornean governments – Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia – declaring their commitment to support it. The tri-country initiative aims to preserve one of the most important centres of biological diversity in the world, including approximately 220,000km2 of equatorial forests and numerous wildlife […]

Big Oil’s Big Windfall

A public already groaning under huge deficits does not need more red ink. An oil industry already rolling in record profits does not need more tax breaks. But both are sure to happen unless some way can be found to claw back from a decade’s worth of Congressional and administrative blunders, aggressive lobbying and industry […]

Uganda: Much-Needed Solution to Energy Crisis Still a Long Way

…As Uganda searches for a short run solution while awaiting Bujagali to come into operation some four years from now, there are still some disagreements on exactly which type of fuel to use. Industry experts argue that Uganda would halve its generation costs if it opted for Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) instead of the light […]

Melt-down anniversary confirms nuke revival as a form of Three Mile Insanity

Today’s twenty-seventh anniversary of the disaster at Three Mile Island finds the nuclear industry pushing yet another lunatic attempt to revive atomic energy. This periodic outbreak of industry-financed insanity usually precedes a major disaster, and always reflects a cynical denial of basic economic, public health and ecological reality. This year it also indicates a complete […]

How one couple beat high cost of heat

PHILADELPHIA – Sean and Sylvia Forman were too young to notice the nation’s last energy crisis. But like many others who realize they were lulled into complacency by cheap oil and natural gas during the 1980s and `90s, this time they are paying close attention. Some people are driving less, or looking into efficient vehicles […]

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