China vs Japan: FTAs, Oil and Taiwan

The growing competition for oil particularly in East Asia between China and Japan is dragging Taiwan leading to saber-rattling by both countries. The role of Taiwan in this equation adds heat into this growing rivalry that also has military implications.China and Japan are locked in a rivalry over at least three flashpoints: Free Trade Agreements […]

Saudi officials seek to temper the price of oil

Saudi Arabia, which benefited immensely from record oil prices last year, has sent signals in the past two weeks that it is committed to keeping oil at around $50 a barrel — down $27 a barrel from the summer peak that shook consumers across the developed world.The Saudis appear to be rediscovering that painfully high […]

With Apologies, Nuclear Power Gets a Second Look

At a time when industrialized countries are wrestling with how to curb carbon dioxide emissions, nuclear energy has one indisputable advantage: unlike coal, oil, natural gas, or even biological fuels, it emits no carbon dioxide. That virtue, in the view of advocates, is enough to offset its well-documented shortcomings. nytimes>

Why life after oil will be better

EXPERTS are predicting that in as little as 12 months’ time our global supplies of oil will start to diminish. Demand will exceed supply, prices will rise, and suddenly all of the things we take for granted like commuting from Swansea to Cardiff, buying roses in February and holidaying abroad will be out of the […]

Last warning: 10 years to save world

THE world has just 10 years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable. The stark warning comes from scientists who are working on the final draft of a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). timesonline

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Bush Orders Federal Agencies to Slash Energy Consumption

President George W. Bush Wednesday issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to cut their energy consumption, shift federal fleets to alternative fuel and plug-in hybrid vehicles, and expand procurement programs for environmentally friendly products. Under the order, agencies operating fleets of at least 20 motor vehicles must reduce their consumption of petroleum products by […]

US Mayors Call for $4 Billion Block Grant to Combat Global Warming

Mayors attending the 75th Winter Meeting of The US Conference of Mayors have called for $4 billion in an Energy and Environmental Block Grant to help cities combat global warming. The mayors also launched a major campaign to create a greencarcongress

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UN’s vast report will end the scientific argument. Now will the world act?

For the hundreds of scientists arriving in Paris this weekend, next week will mark the end of a tortuous three-year process to put everything they know about climate change down on paper. But for the politicians who must read the results, the tortuous process is only beginning. If 2006 was the year the world accepted […]

Energy resources and our future

Now, they are using some very interesting techniques here, and they did some simulations, and I have no idea what the inputs were into the simulations, but they have convinced themselves that there is a high probability that we will find twice as much more oil as all the oil that now exists out there […]

A culinary and cultural staple in crisis

Mexico grapples with soaring prices for corn Tortilla prices have tripled or quadrupled in some parts of Mexico since last summer. On Jan. 18, Calderon announced an agreement with business leaders capping tortilla prices at 78 cents per kilogram, or 2.2 pounds, less than half the highest reported prices. The president’s move was a throwback […]

Academic predicts rising oil prices will prompt a local food renaissance

A renaissance in local food for local communities is coming and the UK will need a huge increase in the agricultural workforce to deliver it. Speaking at the Soil Association Conference in Cardiff, on 26 January, American author Richard Heinberg said the peak oil theory where production plateaus and prices sky rocket could force dramatic […]

Trashing Peak Oil

In 1956, M. King Hubert made a bold and now-famous prediction. He predicted that oil production in the lower 48 states would peak in the early 1970s and decline steadily from that point on. In the years since that decline began — right on schedule in 1970 — there have been many attempts to apply […]

Nashville’s Urban Development Policy Revealed: Out With the Old?

…OK, the tourist thing Now, it turns out that the Westin project is one of at least five new hotels planned for the downtown area. Five or more new hotels. Now, the local hotel biz has actually been pretty good lately, even without Opryland, with occupancy rates running high and a going average price of […]

Lester Brown: Considering the Real Costs of Our Energy Economy

…As concerns over climate change have mounted in recent years, nuclear energy has been touted as a viable alternative to our current dependency on carbon-intensive energy sources. The truth however, is that when the real costs of nuclear power are considered, the energy source is quickly taken out of the running. In fact, on a […]

O, pioneers in Pasadena

One family unplugs from technology and lives off the land. Even the blender is pedal-powered. JULES DERVAES can’t help it. He’s afflicted by a condition for which there is no known cure or even a 12-step program, an uncontrollable urge to change his residential surroundings. He is a serial remodeler, his mind a malarial fever […]

Gore’s ‘Truth’ given cold reception in Seattle

Father gets schools to demand balance on global warming …”No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation — the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet — for global warming,” Hardison wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board. The 43-year-old computer […]

Biofuels expansion seen raising risk of famine

CARDIFF (Reuters) – Switching more land from food to biofuel production raises the risk of future famines, a conference organised by the Soil Association, the country’s leading organic certification body, was told. “This (an expansion in land used for biofuels) sacrifices food security for an illusion of energy security,” Peter Melchett, policy director for the […]

Peak Oil, Peak Nonsense

It’s been less than a year since the world was nearly as awash in writings about “peak oil” as it is in crude oil itself. The psychology of the moment was so twisted that, for example, the op-ed page of the New York Times ran a 2,850-word piece titled “The End of Oil” (March 2006). […]

Durango scientist to debunk

Says predictions about peak oil, global warming overblown Climate change is real, although the consequences aren’t as dire as predicted. And the fear of oil production peaking and then plummeting is a figment of the imagination, according to a retired scientist. Roger Cohen, who spent more than 25 years with ExxonMobil Corp. in various capacities, […]

Canadian Cure for the Middle East Blues

Perhaps the most critical aspect of curbing our appetite for oil is decreasing our dependence on the Middle East. But if we are ever going to get serious about it the question then becomes, where will we make up the shortfall? The answer may lie with our neighbor to the north. The Difference a Year […]

We’re ruining Earth, scientists warn

Droughts will be longer, flooding rains will be rarer but heavier. Cyclones will hit harder. Violent storms and extreme heatwaves will strike more frequently. Evaporation will suck up scarce inland water. Sea levels will creep up half a metre. Oceans will be so acidic that in some places shells and reefs will dissolve. And humanity, […]

Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity is Killing the Economy, Labour Laments

The protracted fuel scarcity in the country is pushing Nigeria into zero-productivity and zero growth thereby making the nation to sink deeper into underdevelopment, the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), has warned. For the organised labour in the nation’s textile industry, Nigeria would not meet the challenges of being […]

Green energy: Lots of choice, lots of risk

Has Al Gore got you worried about global warming, but you also think there might be a way to make some money from the soaring interest in environmental issues? Maybe it’s time to look at investing in some individual companies that are on the leading edge of the green energy revolution.But investing in these companies […]

New life for US nuclear power plants

The US nuclear power industry is planning for a renaissance, drawing up its first applications to build nuclear plants since the 1970s. Just a decade ago, many energy executives didn’t think nuclear power had much of a future. Strict regulations had led to costly downtime for reactors. The public showed little interest in betting billions […]

Gazprom says deals with Belarus, Ukraine will halt disruptions to Europe

Russia’s OAO Gazprom sought to assure jittery Europeans on Friday that new deals for the sale of natural gas to Belarus and Ukraine would prevent any more disruptions to western Europe.Gazprom’s deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev was asked whether Europe should be concerned that supply disruptions over disputes with Ukraine at the beginning of 2006 […]

Brazil Eyes Ethanol Export Boom after Bush Speech

Ethanol producers in Brazil, the world’s biggest and cheapest exporter of the alternative fuel, see a fantastic business opportunity in US President Bush’s aim to cut his country’s gasoline use by 20 percent over a decade.Brazil’s Sugar Cane Industry Union (Unica) said support for biofuels in the United States will help Brazil’s pioneering ethanol industry. […]

Merkel’s carbon master plan

With US President George W.Bush wounded by mistakes in Iraq, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a dramatic bid to fill the void at the World Economic Forum in Davos and assume global leadership. And because the east German born and educated Chancellor is also president of the European Union and the G8, she is in […]

Farmers can profit from biofuel growth,says European Commission president

European farmers have an excellent chance to profit from the drive towards replacing imported fossil fuels with home-produced biofuels, says the EU Commission president. Addressing the International Green Week in Berlin – Europe’s largest food and farming event – Jose Manuel Barroso said farmers had a key role to play in the “low carbon revolution” […]

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