US court cuts ExxonMobil damages for Valdez to 2.5 bln dlrs

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A US appeals court cut the punitive damages to be paid for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster to 2.5 billion dollars, saying the amount is more in line with legal precedent. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals in San Francisco marked the latest turn in the long-running […]

Going green: Earthaven provides a glimpse into an ‘ecovillage’

When winter arrives, most Americans have the luxury of warmth of a central heating system. Not so for Earthaven resident Chris Farmer, for whom winter means fighting the brutal cold without electricity. He braces for the unforgiving wrath of Mother Nature by boiling water, sealing it in a Mason jar and holding it in his […]

Outsize Profits, and Questions, in Effort to Cut Warming Gases

QUZHOU, China Among their targets is a large rusting chemical factory here in southeastern China. Its emissions of just one waste gas contribute as much to global warming each year as the emissions from a million American cars, each driven 12,000 miles. Cleaning up this factory will require an incinerator that costs $5 million

Why do global warming & peak oil skeptics speak out against their own interests?

I don If I were a scientist, and I knew that global warming and the oil crisis were only flukes, I

Nevada seeks to nix govt nuclear waste storage plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The state of Nevada on Friday asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reject the U.S. government’s plan to store thousands of tons of nuclear waste temporarily above ground at a mountain located about 90 miles from Las Vegas. The Energy Department is set to file an application with the NRC in mid […]

Resource warfare intensifies across ”Grand Chessboard” and Horn of Africa

With the world now one full year off the Peak Oil and Gas cliff (according to work of geologists such as Kenneth Deffeyes), it is no surprise to see geostrategic tensions superheating quickly in several key oil and gas regions, as the worldTurkmenistan in chaos Adding to the worsening crisis across the Middle East (Iraq, […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: Peak Oil vs. Cera – The Fight Continues

PARIS (ResourceInvestor.com) — You may remember recently that Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) produced a report Why the CERA are the analyst group led by Daniel Yergin author of

Officials: Nigerian refinery bombed

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria – An explosion rocked the outside of a government building in Nigeria’s southern oil hub Saturday, soon after the military reported an overnight bombing of a water pipeline leading into a refinery. The attacks came at the end of a week of violent strikes against petroleum companies in Africa’s largest oil-producing nation. […]

UK: How the BNP believes it is just ‘one crisis away from power’

When Nick Griffin became leader of the British National Party seven years ago, he told his followers to break their addiction to what he called the Three Hs – hard talk, hobbyism and Hitler. What he meant was: be careful about racist language, violence, Holocaust denial or Nazi-worship.After his almost-casual denigration of British Muslims – […]

The Great Game on a razor’s edge

Over the past year, it has become clear that the US will not be able to become the single dominant power in Central Asia and thereby control oil and gas and their transportation routes. Russia and China have together put up dikes delimiting US influence, though they are far from being a tight couple. The […]

Is wind power for the birds?

In a recent article, John Flicker, president of the NAS, told the American Wind Energy Association that Audubon “strongly supports wind power as a clean alternative energy source.” Research showing prospective effects of climate change on bird populations demonstrated a need for prevention, one approach being renewable energy. The NAS has acknowledged the possible advantages […]

Climate change and Russian gas

As much as half of Russia`s natural gas reserves are in danger because of climate change, experts say.Russian and British scientists have monitored temperatures and have warned officials that already tapped-in gas field infrastructure in western Siberia and the exploitation of future fields on the Yamal peninsula and eastern Siberia are threatened. The existing pipeline […]

A cautious boom in oil shale in the United States

Government estimates of recoverable shale oil in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming put the reserves at 800 billion barrels — more than triple the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. So aside from Vawter, now many in Washington have their eyes on a big prize, not in small part for the promise it might hold to […]

China’s need for crops may curb biofuel plans

A shortage of farmland and a government priority to grow food crops for China, the most populous country, could hamper plans by the country’s oil companies to produce biofuels on a large scale.Construction, pollution and natural disasters are decreasing the land area China has available for food crops. The amount of land that had been […]

Asia new crude oil output expected to slow down

Asia’s oil industry will see only a handful of new fields pump their first crude next year as construction setbacks and rising costs delay major projects, interrupting this year’s production revival.“The Far East faces the unpleasant dilemma of dealing with rising oil demand and largely mature and declining oil fields,” says Pete Stark, vice-president of […]

Iraqi officials reached a tentative agreement on the oil law

Iraq is in great need for foreign investment to revive its shattered economy, which relies heavily on revenues from oil exports, especially that the country has the third largest oil reserves in the world. Sources close to the negotiations said that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, “agreed on” the draft law which is awaiting the political […]

The Last of the Amazon

Brazil’s dilemma: Allow widespread—and profitable—destruction of the rain forest to continue, or intensify conservation efforts. The market forces of globalization are invading the Amazon, hastening the demise of the forest and thwarting its most committed stewards. In the past three decades, hundreds of people have died in land wars; countless others endure fear and uncertainty, […]

Palm oil higher on supply fears

Malaysian palm oil futures touched a one-week high on Friday on fears of supply disruptions after rains in producing areas of southern Malaysia and short covering before the end-year holiday.Dealers said the market was keeping an eye on the weather in southern Malaysia, which was hit this week by its heaviest rains in a century. […]

A Down Market’s Ripple Effect

These wide-swinging cycles have long characterized oil markets, and the resulting uncertainty has served to discourage some of the big-money, long-term investments in new drilling, more-efficient refining techniques or alternative energy sources that could more easily meet growing demand. Now that prices have pulled back from the $70 range that held for much of the […]

Enzyme-powered fuel cells

Enzymes could replace expensive platinum catalysts in hydrogen fuel cells, say scientists. The team investigated enzymes from hydrogen-oxidising bacteria, called knallgas bacteria, which are tolerant to oxygen and other gases that might poison traditional platinum catalysts. fuelcellsworks

US Moves To Help Gulf Nations Protect Energy Sites

A quiet, U.S. government campaign to boost anti-terrorism measures at major Middle East oil installations may be running into resistance from some Persian Gulf governments, who have long sought to distance themselves publicly from any direct American involvement in regional oil issues. Last month, American officials met in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates […]

This Needs to Change

America is too reliant on fossil fuel and needs to find a new path, fast. Our security depends on it. Here are 10 ways to get there. msnbc

Nevada On-Track to Quadruple Its Geothermal Power

A new report from the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) concludes that Nevada is now on-track to be producing over 1000 MW of geothermal power — quadrupling its current geothermal output — over the next 3 to 5 years. This level of geothermal production would meet roughly 25% of the state’s total power needs. renewableenergyaccess

The New Coal Car

Powering cars with coal might seem like a recipe for ecological disaster. But if fuel experts are right, a liquefied form of the notoriously dirty mineral will be providing much of the world with its transport fuel within the next two decades. The coal miner’s equivalent of turning straw into gold, liquid coal enables cars, […]

The Year Ahead in Energy

Despite those valid worries, the underlying fundamentals of the energy markets remain solid. Demand from developing countries such as China and India should keep growing for years to come, while supply challenges, combined with exogenous political variables, should support relatively strong commodity prices into the New Year. Here’s a look at a handful of themes […]

A Very Dangerous New Year

The first two or three months of 2007 represent a dangerous opening for an escalation of war in the Middle East, as George W. Bush will be tempted to mathaba

The Kremlin’s oil grab

Big oil has a long history of having assets appropriated by hostile governments. Yet no one has been quite prepared for the land grab by Gazprom of a 50% stake in the Sakhalin-2 project. This will come as a nasty blow to all overseas investors in President Putin’s Russia and emphasises the vulnerability of European […]

Albemarle Creates Alt-Fuels Division

Albemarle Corporation, a leading global catalyst and specialty chemical maker, has created a new division focusing on alternative fuel technologies. greencarcongress

Garden Girl

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E-85 pump incentives not luring retailers

Iowa’s gas-station operators are not burning a path to take advantage of new state incentives to help install pumps that offer motorists fuel blended with 85 percent ethanol — a product they say is a slow seller due to a low number of flex-fuel vehicles. Iowa Economic Development Board members were told today that 24 […]

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