Report: Baard Energy Planning $4B Coal-to-Liquids Plant in Ohio

The Morning Journal reports that Baard Energy, a Vancouver, Washington-based energy company that is building ethanol plants in Ohio and Nebraska, may soon announce plans for a $4-billion coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant in Wellsville, Ohio. Wellsville is south of Youngstown, Ohio and west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. greencarcongress

Hydrogen highway delayed

The San Carlos stop on the fuelcellsworks

700,000 hectares of oil palm for biofuels in Liberia

Nardina Resources PLC, an extractive industries group, has announced that it has agreed to buy Liberian Forest Products [no website], a group that holds permits covering not less than 700,000 hectares of tropical land in Liberia with commercial agricultural potential, for Nardina wants to develop a large scale, vertically integrated oil palm and biofuels project. […]

Remember, remember the 5th of September, 2000

It is clear that delivering fossil fuels to those who can afford it, is of utmost importance to the keepers of our culture. They have learned the painful lessons about what happens when the flow of oil stops. All of you in the Peak Oil community realize that it will stop, but before it does, it will become wildly expensive. The events of September 5th, 2000, tell us that we will be cut out of who will still have access to dwindling resources, and who will not. If we pay attention to the actions of our leaders, we will learn that they will protect the flow of oil first, our safety second, and our freedoms last.

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CERA’s Rosy Oil Forecast – Pabulum to the People

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Katrina, Global Warming & Peak Oil

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What pipeline problem?

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Mass Protests Lead Nepal to Rescind Fuel Price Hikes

KATMANDU, Nepal Police used truncheons to beat protesters who gathered at three locations Sunday in Katmandu. At least half a dozen government motorcycles and cars were torched by demonstrators. Protesting drivers also blocked the main route to Katmandu, cutting off most transportation to the capital city. The retail price of gasoline had been raised 25% […]

Five challenges to China’s energy industry

China’s energy industry faces five challenges: a huge demand, an acute-shortage of liquid fuel, severe pollution, greenhouse emissions and increasing energy consumption in rural areas. China needs to adjust its energy policies as soon as possible and establish a definitive, comprehensive and strategic energy system. This was the opinion Ni Weidou from the Chinese Academy […]

Scientists Disagree On Link Between Storms, Warming

Same Data, Different Conclusions A year after Hurricane Katrina and other major storms battered the U.S. coast, the question of whether hurricanes are becoming more destructive because of global warming has become perhaps the most hotly contested question in the scientific debate over climate change. Academics have published a flurry of papers either supporting or […]

Philippines: Oil spill traced to corruption, incompetence

OFFICIALS of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources investigating the Guimaras oil spill have promised to release the results of their inquiry some time this week. If the DENR officials make good on their promise, it would be an improvement over the investigation of a similar incident on December 18 last year when a […]

Tribly Lundberg is

Assertive 57-year-old cat lover puts out Lundberg Survey of gas stations CAMARILLO, Calif. – Trilby Lundberg, the nation Lately, the news hasn

Map details global water stress

The alarming extent of water scarcity across the world is detailed in a map compiled by a leading environmental think tank. It shows two key types of scarcity; water is said to be either physically scarce or economically scarce. The map appears in a report by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) on the use […]

Oil price rise fuels leap in US arms sales

THE WAR on Terror and windfalls from rising oil prices have helped to push American military sales to foreign governments to their highest level since the first Gulf War. An investigation by The Times has found that the US Congress was notified of sales worth $12.9 billion ( So far this year, foreign governments have […]

Japan and China Race for African Oil

The increasingly fierce competition between Japan and China over energy and political influence is spilling over into Africa. Japan’s new focus on Africa as a source of energy resources, especially oil, comes on the heels of China’s aggressive forays into the continent’s energy sector, as exemplified by recent visits by President Hu Jintao and Premier […]

Ambassador warned of Azerbaijan oil pipeline risk

A British ambassador warned that emergency services would not cope if terrorists blew up a strategically important oil pipeline heavily supported by the UK government, a Whitehall document shows. The Guardian

China Suntech Sees Solar Cell Prices Peaking

China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. said on Friday it expects rising prices for solar power cells will start to decline as soon as next year, fuelling demand for solar energy. “Several major manufacturers, including Suntech, consider that in the next year we need to cut the price … to bring this industry into a […]

Oil prices on rise till 2010: expert

The price of oil would continue to rise until world oil production peaks in 2010 with any weather or political disruption able to cause a spike in price, an oil expert said today. The London-based editor of Petroleum Review, published by the UK’s Energy Institute, Chris Skrebowski said in Perth that world production would peak […]

Companies act on palm oil concerns

Supermarkets and producers are sourcing sustainable palm oil following the ecological fall-out over its cultivation.In July, trading volumes and prices for Malaysian palm oil futures rose when Malaysia and Indonesia agreed to commit 6m tonnes of palm oil a year, amounting to about 40 per cent of their annual output, as feedstock for the production […]

Airlines tremble at prospect of $100-a-barrel oil

Beleaguered U.S. airlines seem to have slowly staggered to their feet since the terrorism and recession of earlier this decade. But credit agency Standard & Poor’s has come up with a worrisome scenario that could knock them back down: $100-a-barrel oil. What S&P sees at the $100-a-barrel level isn’t pretty: Northwest and Delta airlines could […]

Food, biofuels could worsen water shortages

Surging demand for irrigation to produce food and biofuels is likely to aggravate scarcities of water but the world’s supply is not running out, an international report said on Monday. “One in three people is enduring one form or another of water scarcity,” the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) said in a report compiled by […]

Oil Poised to Climb 20% as BP Shutdown Shows Industry Distress

(Bloomberg) — BP Plc’s shutdown of the largest U.S. oil field may be the first of many, as decaying pipelines threaten to add 20 percent to energy prices in the next decade. “We’ll look back on this event as the Pearl Harbor Day in energy,” said Matthew Simmons, chairman of energy investment bank Simmons & […]

The New Age of Sail

EnergyBulletin.net – Culture Change editor’s note: In this timely and comprehensive work, the author charts a most resonable future. Dmitry Orlov is known for writing and lecturing about the collapse of the Soviet Union as a guide to U.S. petrocollapse. World trade depends on cheap petroleum, especially bunker fuel for ships. As goods such as […]

A Climate Repair Manual

Climate change compels a massive restructuring of the world’s energy economy. Worries over fossil-fuel supplies reach crisis proportions only when safeguarding the climate is taken into account. Even if oil production peaks soon–a debatable contention given Canada’s oil sands, Venezuela’s heavy oil and other reserves–coal and its derivatives could tide the earth over for more […]

Sensational Solar

After installing 24 125-watt solar panels on the roof of his north Vacaville residence, Rydjord’s monthly PG&E bill has dropped from about $50 to $5.40. While the panels Rydjord bought in 2001 cost $24,000, California Energy Commission rebates and tax incentives lowered the price to about $8,000, he said. thereporter

How global demand adjusted to oil prices

It is just two years and some months back that crude prices crossed the $40 per barrel (/bbl) mark. A perceptive industry analyst (Purvin Barrow, July 2004) had focused on the two financialexpress

‘Global economy will slow down in ‘07′

The Foreign Hand column has often featured leading global economists. In this edition, we bring you one of the most diverse thinkers in the global economic scenario

Experts call for radical re-think in global water management

With the world’s population forecast to grow by 2-3 billion by 2050 and water already a scarce resource for some, there has to be a radical transformation in the management of the planet’s resources of the life-giving liquid, experts warned at the start of World Water Week here.
“One in three people is enduring one form or another of water scarcity” in the world today, according to a report compiled over five years by 700 experts and presented at the event in the Swedish capital opening on Monday.



“Government policies and their approach to water are probably the most urgent that need changing in the short term,” he said.

There is, in fact, enough land, water and human capacity to produce enough food for a growing population over the next 50 years, “so in this sense the world is not ‘running out of water’,” he added.

One of the challenges is to provide enough water for agriculture without damaging the environment.

Burying the evidence of global warming

A doctor can bury his mistakes, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright once noted, a luxury not available to other professions. But all of humanity might look towards burial for help with one of its potentially biggest mistakes, global warming, a new study suggests. In a study accepted for publication in the American Geophysical Union’s Journal […]

Ozone-friendly chemicals lead to warming

Cool your home, warm the planet. When more than two dozen countries undertook in 1989 to fix the ozone hole over Antarctica, they began replacing chloroflourocarbons in refrigerators, air conditioners and hair spray. But they had little idea that using other gases that contain chlorine or fluorine instead also would contribute greatly to global warming. […]

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