Prestigious scientific panel backs global-warming data

After a comprehensive review of climate-change data, the pre-eminent U.S. scientific body found average temperatures on Earth have risen about 1 degree over the past century, a development that “is unprecedented for the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.” The report from the National Academies of Science also concluded that “human activities […]

Commission attempts to balance transport and environmental needs

The Commission’s updated Europe’s transport policy seeks to improve citizens’ mobility and boost competitiveness, while keeping down energy consumption and reducing the negative impacts on the environment. Transport is responsible for 71% of oil consumption and for 26% of CO2 emissions. In order to reduce Europe’s dependency on oil and make transport more sustainable, the […]

The not so good earth

While Shanxi provides the fuel that powers China’s sizzling economy, thousands of acres of land are sinking because of the ravages of underground coal mining. Moreover, coal fires are burning uncontrollably below ground here and through much of northern China, adding to global warming by releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Each […]

OIL SANDS DEVELOPMENT NEEDS TO STOP, SAYS NOTED ENVIRONMENTALIST

Green Party leadership candidate Elizabeth May is in Alberta this week, calling for a moratorium on oil sands development in the province. May, the former executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, calls rampant oil sands development a global crisis, and the biggest reason Canada isn’t meeting its emission reduction targets under the Kyoto […]

A Torrent of Darkness

“The air was so thick that I thought I was choking,” she said. “The pollution was just unbelievable. All the locals wore surgical masks, and so did almost everyone in our group. I would get back to the hotel room and I had black lines of soot all over my face. I would cough up […]

IEA says the world is not on course for a sustainable energy future

The IEA, the energy watchdog for 26 industrialised countries including Ireland, says that its Energy Technology Perspectives: Scenarios & Strategies to 2050 report, which is published today, is in response to the Group of Eight (G8) leaders at their Gleneagles Summit in July 2005, and to the International Energy Agency’s Energy Ministers, who called for […]

Iraq accuses Iran of oil smuggling

Iraqi Oil Minister Husayn Al-Shahrastani has accused Iran of helping with oil smuggling, Al-Iraqiyah television reported this week. “We blame the Iranian coastguard for allowing Iraqi smuggling boats to reach Iranian waters. Not only that. In some cases, these boats get protection from the Iranian coastguard,” he said. “We have other problems, including smuggling and […]

Venezuela’s oil production still a big question mark

Judging from an internal U.S. Southern Command report on long-term oil production in Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is unlikely to meet his promises of energy assistance to neighboring countries and could even find himself with problems to keep production up at home. Before we get into whether the study is realistic or wishful […]

T. Boone Pickens Interview – Video

Charlie Rose Show via EV World – Streaming video of interview with legendary oil man on peak oil, global warming and water. Interview starts 36-minutes into the program. EV World

Fun While It Lasted

EnergyBulletin.net – My friends will tell you that I have a peculiar fascination with doomsday scenarios. Living in expectation of this civilizationEnergyBulletin.net

First section of Russia-Germany North European Gas Pipeline to be ready in Decem

The first 144-kilometer section of the ground part of the North European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) will be ready in December, Oleg Lebedev, deputy chief of the Yamalgazinvest company, told the press on Thursday. wiadomosci

Small portion of ocean energy could meet world’s needs: experts

If only 0.2 percent of the world ocean’s untapped energy could be harnessed, it could provide power sufficient for the entire world, experts said on Wednesday. Ocean energy, existing in the forms of wave, tidal, marine current, thermal (temperature gradient) and salinity, is one of the largest renewable and clean energy source, experts told the […]

Offshore wind project is blowing again

Key lawmakers have agreed to drop the idea of giving Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney veto power over a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm, adopting a compromise that could boost the project msnbc

Big money’s renewable energy bets

Like a lot of people, the head of Calpers’ environmental fund is hot on one particular renewable energy technology. “When I get back, the one thing I’m going to talk about most is the incredible focus on ethanol,” Winston Hickox, a manager at the nation’s largest public pension fund, said Thursday at a New York […]

Earth hottest it’s been in 2,000 years

The Earth is running a slight fever from greenhouse gases, after enjoying relatively stable temperatures for 2,000 years. The National Academy of Sciences, after reconstructing global average surface temperatures for the past two millennia, said Thursday the data are “additional supporting evidence … that human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming.” Other […]

World energy consumption could be cut by half if clean technology applied: IEA

Oil and electricity consumption across the world could easily be cut by half, with major benefits for the environment, if clean energy technologies that are currently available were applied, an international watchdog said. “A sustainable energy future is possible, but only if we act urgently and decisively to promote, develop and deploy a full mix […]

White Nights, Black Gold: Russia’s Oil Riches Come to Light

Your Russian oil and gas may as well have come from space–the people who produce it talk of “returning to earth” when they leave its remote Siberian source. Starting 1,400 kilometers northeast of Moscow and reaching far into the Arctic, the vast Yamalo-Nenetsky autonomous district is a leading center of the national oil industry. At […]

Power Shifts to Nations with Big Oil Reserves

Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Exxon Mobil Corp. are making gargantuan bets on liquid fuels derived from natural gas. Shell and Total SA of France are extracting fuel from the gooey tar sands of Canada. ENI SpA, the Italian oil major, this month paid $900 million for the right to explore for oil off the […]

PetroSun Drilling Forms Algae BioFuels Subsidiary

PetroSun Drilling, an emerging provider of oilfield services to major and independent producers of oil and natural gas, has formed Algae BioFuels Inc. as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Algae BioFuels will engage in the research and development of algae cultivation as an feedstock in the production of biodiesel. The R&D and production facilities for Algae BioFuels […]

Scandinavian partnership plans for hydrogen stations

The Norwegian plan to establish “The Hydrogen Road” from Stavanger to Oslo in 2009 is now extended to include a plan for a Scandinavian network of hydrogen stations fuelcellsworks

Super ethanol is on its way

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Report: Argentina’s Oil Output to Drop 4.0-4.8% This Year

Rigzone – Oil production in Argentina this year is expected to drop 4.0-4.8% to nearly 6.54 million barrels a day compared to 2005, newspaper El Cronista reported, citing local consultancy IES Consultores. In the first quarter of this year, oil output dipped 4.8%, the report said. Production will continue to drop in part because of […]

Rising gas prices fire up bloggers

(CNN) — Surging gas prices have sparked debates at the water cooler, on Wall Street and in the halls of Congress, and Internet researchers say it’s also a hot topic in the blogosphere. The marketing research firm Umbria Communications, in partnership with CNN.com, studied blog postings published between the weeks of March 12 and May […]

Clinton Raises Alarm About Oil Depletion

Straight.com – Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has urged newspaper editors to focus more attention on the depletion of the worldStraight.com

Heat-Seeking Sheep Pave Way For Roads That Generate Energy

Scotsman.com – ROADS and driveways could be turned into huge solar panels to heat houses and offices using an invention inspired by sheep on the west coast of Scotland. An Ullapool company will tomorrow install the first road energy system in the UK in its own car park. The system takes advantage of heat absorbed […]

Study Says Earth’s Temp at 400-Year High

Forbes – The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the “recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last […]

California’s Limited Supply Options Highlight U.S. Oil Import Dependence

(AP) – Just two Arab countries have supplied more than 50 percent of California’s imported oil over the past five years, a dependence that leaves the state more vulnerable than the rest of the country to disruptions in the world oil markets. The finding, based on an analysis of state and federal crude oil import […]

Kuwaiti opposition against raising oil output

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) – The Kuwaiti opposition plans to reject a government strategy to raise oil production capacity in the light of reports that the emirate’s reserves are half the announced figure, a leading opposition candidate has said. “We will work to introduce key changes to the government oil policy in a bid to halt […]

New fuel source grows on the prairie

IMPERIAL, Neb. – Just outside this town in the middle of the great American prairie, 37 miles from the nearest traffic light, stands a huge pile of cornstalks and leaves. It looks like a 35-foot mountain of yard trash, yet black cables snake into the pile, attached to sensors that monitor its vital statistics by […]

Turkmenistan Raises Gas Price, Accuses West

In recent days, the Turkmen government has accused Western diplomats and organizations of trying to implement a plot to overthrow the government. It also indicated that a Turkmen citizen was given training in the Ukraine to destabilize the country and bring about a pro-Western “Orange Revolution” as occured in the Ukraine. Meanwhile, Turkmenistan has substantially […]

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