Auto boom worsens China’s energy crunch

At present, some 15 million rural residents settle down in China’s cities each year. At this pace, the country’s rate of urbanization will reach 55-60% by 2020. That means up to 60% of its projected 1.5 billion 2020 population, or 900 million people, will live in cities. Currently, only about 30% of the 1.3 billion […]

China: Another dammed gorge

Even as the main dam of the mammoth Three Gorges reservoir, the world’s largest hydroelectric project, was completed in late May several months ahead of schedule, China is gearing up to launch another massive Yangtze River dam-building project. Sandwiched between the towering majesty of the Jade Dragon and Haba Snow Mountains in the northwestern part […]

Emissions grow, temperatures rise, talks advance as globe confronts warming

Britain and Sweden are on target for reducing global-warming gases, but other countries will have to toughen policies and rely on “carbon trading” to achieve their Kyoto Protocol goals by 2012, says a new U.N. report. In the United States, meanwhile, emissions of so-called greenhouse gases climbed by 16 percent between 1990 and 2004, the […]

Coal no boon to Colombian city

SANTA MARTA, Colombia – This historic port city was once touted by the Colombian government as the next Acapulco, with its scenic bay, white sand beaches, colonial history and the ecotourism potential of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, home to one of the largest and oldest pre-Columbian settlements in the Americas. Then came the […]

Malaysia Can Emerge World Leading Biodiesel Producer

Malaysia has the potential to become the world’s leading biodiesel producer with the help of the country’s reputation as the world leading producer of palm oil. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Malaysia provides an ideal centre for the growth of biofuel industry with a solid integrated infrastructure network and a large […]

Radioactive Champagne could be fruit of nuclear energy

Protests about radioactivity getting into wine have stopped a planned nuclear waste dump in the Rhone region Radioactive waste from a storage site at Soulaine in eastern France, where containment problems were reported in recent weeks, could end up in grapes used to make champagne as it penetrates into groundwater, the environmental group said. Water […]

EU ‘must help Turkey on energy’

Unveiling a strategy paper to be discussed at an EU summit in Brussels, Fokion Fotiadis, deputy director-general in the Commission, said: “We should support Turkey reach its full potential as a transit country.’’ He also singled out the need to support Algeria, which he said could double its share of European gas imports to about […]

World energy markets, not Big Oil, drive the price of gasoline

Why do people seem convinced that gas prices are controlled by Big Oil? Actually oil prices are set in commodity trading pits, along with corn, gold, pork bellies, and any other commodities for sale! This happens on world wide basis. It’s impossible to control these prices, even OPEC, which controls 40 percent of oil production, […]

Oil and Politics Clash in Nigeria

Paul Wee is with the Washington-based United States Institute of Peace. He recently visited Nigeria and says that despite the country’s oil wealth, the situation in the delta is deplorable.”Down by the coastline, the Ogoni people live – – 500-thousand people. They sit right on top of the oil. When you go through this territory, […]

A frosty warning for oil sands firms

Western Oil Sands Inc. didn’t get a favorable reaction when it announced this week it would spend $45 million over four years exploring for oil in northern Iraq. Analysts said investors were concerned about increased risk for the company and a dilution of what was perceived to be a mandate to invest only in Canada’s […]

Putin revives energy row with US but promises to help fight terrorism

The Russian president Vladimir Putin yesterday returned to his feud with the US over energy supplies when he declared that Washington is in no position to deliver lectures after the invasion of Iraq. Weeks after vice-president Dick Cheney accused Moscow of using intimidation and blackmail in its energy policy, Mr Putin said he would continue […]

‘Armageddon Solution’ (Australia)

The Courier-Mail (Australia) – BRISBANE families may be drinking water recycled from sewerage treatment plants within two years. A secret emergency recycling strategy says up to 100 million litres of treated wastewater from Luggage Point, Oxley and Bundamba treatment plants would be available to be pumped in to Somerset and Wivenhoe dams each day by […]

Are Gasoline Alternatives Fuel for a Revolution?

More than 600,000 cars capable of running on alternative fuels have been produced each year since 2000, according to the Energy Information Agency. An estimated 5 million flex-fuel vehicles, ones that run on regular or alternative fuel, are on the road nationwide. washingtonpost

MoveOn.org Prioritizes

The Oil Drum: NYC – MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy organization with over 3 million members, recently held neighborhood meetings to discuss which issues the organization should prioritize in it’s 2006 grassroots activities and campaign ads. In an online poll of it’s members on top 3 priorities for the next year, Healthcare just barely edged out […]

Developing economies now more resilient to rising oil prices: World Bank

A new World Bank report has explained why many economies have not been more adversely affected, particularly developing countries, by the hike in oil prices. Despite uncertainties, the Bank expects developing countries to enjoy strong combined economic growth of 6.3 per cent this year. And even while riding on a downward trend in 2008, they’re […]

Is it really possible to cut your carbon emissions enough to save the planet?

As part of the BBC’s Climate Chaos week, The Money Programme conducted a unique experiment. It asked the Hutchinson family from Teesdale – the area in the UK with the highest carbon emissions per household – to try and cut back their energy use. But it was a tough task. The Hutchinsons use a lot […]

Piqued by Peak Oil

EnergyBulletin.net – In a recent commentary in UBC Reports (A Peek Past Peak Oil, April 6, 2006, Professor Dowlatabati stated that peaking of conventional oil production (Peak Oil) will simply mark another energy crossroads that will be characterized by a seamless transition to non-conventional oil sources. A supply glut will develop and prices will fall […]

U.S. Energy Secretary Says He’s Optimistic Despite Energy Costs

U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Friday he is optimistic that the nation’s economy will continue to improve despite rising energy costs. Bodman, in Connecticut to tour the University of Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, pointed to new labor statistics showing the nation’s unemployment rate has dipped to 4.6 percent, the lowest since the summer […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: Is Oil Heading Back to Reality?

You might expect to see oil falling drastically alongside the equity indexes. You might think the market would already be pricing in a downside for oil and gas, predicated on falling equity markets. But instead we have seen a more normal pattern, energy prices have risen as equities have fallen. Not every day it is […]

A Ten-Step Prorgam to Energy Independence

Unfortunately, while the president admits we have a problem, he has no plan to help us kick our addiction. With Independence Day right around the corner, what better time to declare our Independence from Oil? With thanks to our friends at the Rainforest Action Network, let’s begin with a10-step program for energy independence: globalexchange

OPEC Considers Adding Three Nations

Meeting in Venezuela yesterday, OPEC leaders held informal discussions on admitting Angola, Ecuador and Sudan into the cartel. In addition to voting to keep its official oil production cap at 28 million barrels per day, OPEC discussed the possibility of expanding its bloc to gain a bigger marketshare. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi: “We […]

Ultra Low-Sulfur Diesel Regulations Take Effect in US

Yesterday (1 June) marked the beginning of the phased-in implementation of EPA greencarcongress

Regulator: Canadian Oil Sands Production May Triple by 2015

The production of Alberta oil sands could nearly triple by 2015 to three million barrels per day, according to a new report by Canada greencarcongress

Researchers Use Ultrasonics to Boost Yield of Corn Ethanol Production

Researchers at Iowa State University are exploring the use of ultrasonics to boost ethanol production from corn. The team pre-treated milled corn to break the corn pieces into fine particles, thereby exposing more of the corngreencarcongress

OPEC Maintains Output Targets But Trims Supply

Dow Jones – …But some analysts estimate that oil supply from OPEC nations is already well below the formal output quota of 28 million barrels a day, excluding Iraq, and is running as much as one million barrels a day less than a year ago. Led by Saudi Arabia, the cartel last year opted to […]

Severe Weather Wreaks Havoc on Corpus Christi Refineries

(Dow Jones)–Mother Nature kicked off hurricane season Thursday with a slap at the oil refineries in Corpus Christi, Texas. While it was neither a hurricane nor a tropical storm, heavy rains and lightning on the first day of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane system reduced operations at two of three refineries in the area and shut […]

Belarusian President Lukashenko Forecasts Collapse of Global Economy

MosNews.com – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko forecasted on Tuesday the downfall of the global economy. MosNews.com

Fusion reactor ‘built in China’

Chinese scientists have completed construction of an experimental superconducting fusion reactor that will replicate the same energy generation process that fuels the sun, with tests to begin as early as July, state media reported Friday. The Tokamak fusion device, built in Hefei, the capital of eastern China’s Anhui province, is a smaller version of the […]

Only Slowing Demand Can Rein In Oil

(Reuters) – Only an unlikely, significant drop in oil demand can achieve what OPEC has failed to do — steer near-record prices back to the $50 a barrel level that consumers and producers say they can live with. OPEC ministers meeting in Caracas promised on Thursday to keep pumping as much oil as their customers […]

Researchers Use Ultrasonics to Boost Yield of Corn Ethanol Production

Researchers at Iowa State University are exploring the use of ultrasonics to boost ethanol production from corn. The team pre-treated milled corn to break the corn pieces into fine particles, thereby exposing more of the cornGreenCarCongress.

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