My Saudi Arabian Breakfast

How to wake up each morning and consume a quart of crude oil and two and half pounds of coal. Please join me for breakfast. It’s time to fuel up again. On the table in my small Berkeley apartment this particular morning is a healthy looking little meal — a bowl of imported McCann’s Irish […]

UK tax hike fails due to unexpected depletion

The Treasury has written off three-quarters of the This represents the bulk of the

County modifies wilderness area recommendations to allow oil and gas exploration

The White Pine County wants less land designated as federal wilderness in the proposed public lands bill. Cedarstrat founder Alan Chamberlain’s earlier presentation to county commission paid off: recommendations for proposed wilderness area boundaries will be changed to allow for oil drilling and exploration. Commissioners also motioned Wednesday not to attempt to expand the boundaries […]

Uganda Loses 26% Forest Cover

Uganda has lost 26% of its forest cover in the last two decades, said a report released last month by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).Speaking ahead of the commemoration of the World Forestry Day, Paul Drichi, the biomass inventory coordinator under the National Forestry Authority, said the country’s forest cover was receding at […]

The pollution gap

Report reveals how the world’s poorer countries are forced to pay for the CO2 emissions of the developed nations Over 70 million Africans and an even greater number of farmers in the Indian sub-continent will suffer catastrophic floods, disease and famine if the rich countries of the world fail to change their habits and radically […]

Driving on drink

Europe’s sweet tooth once made Brazil’s sugar plantation owners so rich that they would send their dirty laundry to Portugal for cleaning. More than three centuries later, Brazil’s sugar industry is again tipped to boom. European demand is once more the cause. Only this time, it is a taste for clean energy that is promising […]

Setback to Japan’s nuclear industry

A court ordered the shutdown of Japan’s second-biggest nuclear power plant on Friday on the grounds that it was vulnerable to earthquakes, in a verdict that could have important implications for the embattled nuclear industry. Operators of Japan’s nuclear power stations, which account for about one-third of electricity production, have been wracked by a series […]

Lingering hostage crisis: Nationwide blackout looms

“So the next thing you will see is total black- out in our fatherland. Have you people thought about that? You see, crude oil is sent to the refinery from the flow stations and it is at the refinery that gas is extracted and sent to the thermal plants but now, the refineries are not […]

Namibia: Oil And Electricity Posed As Major Challenges

The rising oil prices and the increasing electricity demand in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region are the two challenges that Namibia will face in the near future, Minister of Finance Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said last week as she presented the 2006/7 budget. “We have to be prepared to manage the risks. The recent power […]

Creation of strategic oil reserve sought

New Delhi: In the light of volatility in global oil prices and the international geopolitical concerns, a parliamentary committee has urged the Government to set up a strategic crude oil reserve with a “sense of urgency for meeting short term supply disruptions.” The standing committee on petroleum and natural gas, which tabled its report in […]

In what may be disappointing news for India, energy think-tank FACTS has predicted that global crude oil prices will continue to stay high and said the government needs to take bold decisions like removing subsidies. FACTS forecasted oil prices to rise to $80 a barrel in 2014 before settling at $65 a barrel by 2018. […]

Energy security moves to centre stage in global politics

Suddenly energy security has become a central issue in world politics. The international regime among the industrialised countries after the 1973 oil shock needs to be broadened to take account of new geopolitical and technological realities and climate change. Research and technology in the energy sector has huge potential for future growth, given the facts […]

Britain set to drop emissions targets for business

The Government’s plans for tackling climate change – to be announced on Tuesday – will be the “acid test” of whether it is really serious about protecting the environment, a leading campaigner claimed yesterday. The climate change review programme will set out how the Government proposes to deal with the problem that Britain is producing […]

Micro-generation

Friends of the Earth Scotland have an excellent page on micro-renewable energy – which means do-it-yourself clean electricity generation. This includes a system for absorbing heat from the ground which I hadn skakagrall

Canadian gas in trouble?

The loss of accessible, low-cost natural gas reserves combined with fast-rising finding and development costs are posing a threat to Canadapetroleumnews

Russia

Russia may face a production decline in the oil and gas industries that provide most of its budget revenues in a medium-term perspective, the countrymosnews

SUSTAINABLE DAMS HELP FIGHT HUNGER IN ZIMBABWE

Uranda Village holds one of the most popular food security projects in Zimbabwe. Many people chronically go hungry in this country alertnet

Nuclear Vs Solar Energy, Which?

With growing concerns over the potential hazard of a nuclear accident, spent fuel management and the fortuitous release of radioactive materials, it is wise to debate the role of nuclear power in terms of future energy policies. In April last year, the British government said in its effort to meet the targets on climate change, […]

MIT Powers Up New Battery for Hybrid Cars

Researchers at MIT have developed a new type of lithium battery that could become a cheaper alternative to the batteries that now power hybrid electric cars. But lithium nickel manganese oxide, described in a paper published in Science on Feb. 17, could revolutionize the hybrid car industry — a sector that has “enormous growth potential,” […]

Researching hydrogen for the bigger picture

As energy consumption and the environment become increasingly important issues, ideas such as hydrogen cars become more plausible as real-world solutions. That’s good news for Dr. Xianguo Li, a mechanical engineering professor at UW. He and his team of post-doctorate graduates are working with hydrogen fuel cells to make their design cheaper and more suited […]

Carbon cloud over a green fuel

An Iowa corn refinery, open since December, uses 300 tons of coal a day to make ethanol. Late last year in Goldfield, Iowa, a refinery began pumping out a stream of ethanol, which supporters call the clean, renewable fuel of the future. There’s just one twist: The plant is burning 300 tons of coal a […]

Rising and Declining Cultures

In thinking about the epochal shifts now underway on our planet and how they relate to the evolution of America, I see two primary cultures, one in the ascendancy and one just starting to decline. These two cultures are not defined by skin color, language, ethnic group, or religion. They represent ways of thinking that […]

OPEC Sea Exports West End 5 Weeks Of Decline -Oil Movements

Westbound exports of crude oil from OPEC are expected to start rising in early April, reversing five consecutive weeks of decline, leading tanker tracker Oil Movements said Thursday. This indicates strong demand as refiners complete maintenance and despite growing U.S. oil inventories. NASDAQ

Fuel Production to Lag Behind Demand (Australia)

Rising demand for fuel is expected to outstrip any increase in refining capacity in the Asia-Pacific region in the near future, oil refiner Caltex said. Caltex also reiterated that earnings in the first half of the financial year will be hurt by a delay in the company’s clean fuels project. “Refining capacity additions across the […]

U.S. Cities Most Prepared for Oil Crisis/ Peak Oil

Did your life change when gas prices hit $2 or $3 a gallon last summer? For many people across the United States higher gas prices meant cutting down on unnecessary car trips or taking public transportation. Some even sold their gas-guzzling SUV, while others switched to alternative fuels such as biodiesel. So, what will you […]

The Oil Drum: Of Rigs and Pipelines

A year ago the perception of a problem with oil supply was much less evident than today. While Saudi Arabia had a plan to increase production, it was using only some 30-odd drilling rigs, and the debate over its capabilities was not being widely discussed. Now that Aramco has committed to an increased level of […]

Time for Plan B for energy security?

INDIA – The recent foreign policy debates are largely centred on our future energy needs. Frenetic economic diplomacy to secure nuclear power generation oil and gas contracts, and laying pipelines on the east as well as the west to transport fossil fuels, are certainly of value in the short and medium term. Long-term supply contracts […]

Former Clinton Aide Maps Energy Plan

Looking at a projected map of the world at night, progressive energy advocate John Podesta told a standing-room-only crowd in Science Center A that inequality is visible from space. Using the map, which showed America and Europe as brightly lit and much of the rest of world as dim or entirely dark, Podesta assessed differences […]

EU agrees to energy co-operation

EU leaders have agreed to work together to enhance energy security while stopping short of proposing any detailed solutions. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said ministers attending a summit in Brussels had pledged support for a common energy policy. But sharp divisions remain over how far energy markets should be liberalised and what kind […]

Nigerian militants kidnap 3 soldiers in oil delta

ABUJA, March 24 – Militants in Nigeria’s oil producing southern delta have abducted three soldiers who ventured into a remote area near a major natural gas plant, an army spokesman said on Friday. The abduction took place on Thursday night in the Soku area of Bayelsa state, one of the three main oil producing states […]

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