EU to boost funding on China energy, environment work

The European Union plans to provide another 40 million euro ($52 million) of funds to expand cooperation and research with China in energy and the environment. The funding will go mainly into projects that focus on climate change and the environment, the EU ambassador to China, Serge Abou, said at a briefing in Beijing today. […]

Europeans hooked on Russian gas face tough choices

Europe wants to break its decades-old dependence on increasingly unreliable Russian natural gas supplies amid fears that Moscow is using its vast energy resources as a foreign policy tool. But there’s no easy way out. The alternatives are seeking other energy partners in North Africa and the Middle East, reviving nuclear power and investing heavily […]

Oil-rich Venezuela’s leader urges energy conservation

With the zeal of a die-hard environmentalist, President Hugo Chavez plans to invest some of Venezuela’s oil wealth in manufacturing solar panels and has begun giving out millions of energy-saving fluorescent light bulbs in homes nationwide. Though his country survives on oil sales, Chavez is increasingly talking up the environmental cause and urging the world […]

Nigeria: Oil Workers Threaten to Withdraw From Niger Delta

The leadership of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) yesterday threatened to pull out their members working in the Niger Delta region, saying that the lives of oil workers in the area are in danger. Speaking at an expanded emergency meeting of […]

China: Increased search for offshore oil

China’s top economic planner has called for greater offshore exploration efforts from local oil giants to meet soaring energy demand. “Chinese oil producers are doing a good job extracting oil and gas on land, but not in the deep sea. More efforts are needed in this field,” Zhao Xiaoping, head of Energy Bureau under the […]

North Sea gas and oil boom threatens dolphins

Marine conservationists have called for permanent protection of one of the UK’s most important colonies of dolphins which is being threatened by a boom in North Sea oil and gas exploration. Bottlenose dolphins have been living in and around the Moray Firth in the north-east of Scotland for a number of years. They have become […]

Renewable Energy Grows Up

My new view, to put it in a nutshell, is that there has been a tendency for renewable energy power generation plants to become larger and to move from the expensive edges to the wholesale center of the grid. The massive wind turbines that today play a significant role in generating centralized power are the […]

European wind power

The market for European wind power capacity broke new records in 2006, according to the annual statistics issued by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). 7,588 MW of wind power capacity, worth some e4engineering

Nippon Oil acquires North Sea oil/gas rights

Nippon Oil Corp. (5001.T: Quote, NEWS , Research), Japan’s biggest oil refiner, has acquired stakes in six oil and natural gas blocks in the North Sea, a financial daily said on Saturday. The Nikkei said Nippon Oil, which bid as part of a consortium comprising British and U.S. companies, was awarded the rights by the […]

Silicon Valley Focuses On Solar Power

Silicon Valley is also poised to lead the way in developing alternative energy sources. Solar is in fact, the most rapidly growing energy sector and demand is driving innovation. The next big thing in solar energy looks like this — thin flexible rolls of stainless steel with seven layers of material to create solar cells. […]

Iran: The war has already begun

As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the spring. The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran. For the Bush cabal, the attack will be a way of “buying time” for […]

Report Finds Energy Efficiency and Renewables Can Slash U.S. Carbon Emissions

The United States can significantly cut its emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases by aggressively pursuing energy efficiencies and renewable energy technologies. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday [1/31/07] by the American Solar Energy Society in Washington, during a week when the nation’s capital was abuzz with Congressional hearings and news briefings focused […]

Canada does not see greenhouse gas cuts soon

It is unlikely that Canada will be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at all in the next few years, let alone achieve the major cuts needed to meet its Kyoto targets, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday. “The first step, realistic step … will be to try over the next few years to […]

Let Them Drive Corn

Of course, Bush continues to drag his heels. In his State of the Union address he offers the appearance of the born-again environmentalist. Could he really be turning on his allies in Big Oil and Saudi Arabia when he calls for a reduction in oil use of 20% over the next 10 years? As is […]

PEAK OILERS’ ERROR

Peak oil advocates argue that we are at or rapidly approaching the beginning of a long decline in oil production, having reached the “peak” of oil resources. Combined with the increase in oil use, some in the peak oil community are predicting dramatic consequences, says the Washington Policy Center (WPC). These predictions, however, don’t match […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: The Iraqification of Iran

The oil market is great. No matter how many people are looking at it, no matter how many staff patrol the prices, it still strolls off into the distance and does its own thing. Just when everyone was talking about $35 per barrel resourceinvestor

DVDs of the Boston ASPO-USA Conference are now available

The set consists of 9 DVDs covering the complete 2-day conference including Q&As. They have been edited to show PowerPoint slides integrated into the speeches from the original presentations, so text and graphics are easy to read. (Note that the preview on the website does not show the integrated PowerPoint slides) . Cost for the […]

Food Fight: peak oil and food security radio

Several episodes, including “100 Million Farmers,” “Until you change the way money works, you change nothing,” “What will we eat as the oil runs out?”, “Peak oil and permaculture in Cuba,” “Biogas and Dream Farms,” and “The Salvation of Suburbia.”Energy Bulletin

Weekly Offshore Rig Review: Mess in the Med

Cyprus Gets Serious About Oil & Gas As the eastern Mediterranean has become a more and more attractive region for hydrocarbon exploration, the Greek Cypriot government has made some important moves towards establishing oil and gas exploration within the waters surrounding the island nation, which have thrust the tiny nation into the international spotlight in […]

Bolivia Suspends 14 Contracts Signed with Foreign Oil Firms

The Bolivian government suspended 14 oil contracts signed between state-run oil company YPFB and foreign oil firms, saying that the foreign sides violated state rules of presentation and legalization for their businesses, according to news reaching here on Wednesday. Ruth Villarroel, government notary in the La Paz prefecture, told Bolivian media that “their presentation did […]

Nigeria: PHCN alerts on power rationing

The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) yesterday alerted the nation of an impending mass power rationing, saying its generation capacity had slumped by 50 per cent. In a statement signed by its Assistant General Manager (Public Affairs), Mrs Efuru Igbo, the company regretted its decision to reduce power generation at two of its major […]

Global warming obstructionism

Word from participants who shall remain nameless is that China has taken the lead in global warming obstructionism in 2007. “China is being very difficult,” says one, who asked not to be named. “[They are] the only country who opposes sentence: “most observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely […]

Nigeria Oil Workers’ Unions Threaten Strike Over Violence

The two main Nigerian oil workers’ unions on Thursday threatened a strike next week to protest against rising violence in the country’s petroleum-producing southern region. Dozens of workers, foreign and Nigerian, have been seized in attacks in the Niger Delta region in recent weeks, and the unions said they would protest by a work stoppage […]

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Gazprom is getting a bad rap. The state-controlled energy giant that supplies a huge amount of Europe But Gazprom is getting a bad rap. Rightly or wrongly, the management of the company is trying to do what businesses do: maximize its income. Putin

How climate change hits India’s poor

…As sea level rises – partly as a response to climate change – two islands have vanished from the map. Professor Sugata Hazra, a stocky dynamo of a man, discovered their disappearance when he compared maps from the Raj with satellite images. He says 6,000 people have had to be relocated here because their land […]

France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax

PARIS, Jan. 31 But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.

CO2 Cloud Hangs Over European Carmakers

European automakers will take a hit on capital markets if the European Union imposes strict limits on cars’ carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as a way to help curb global warming. The earnings drag from stepped-up spending to curtail greenhouse gases and the sales impact from higher prices for almost all new cars would provide a […]

China Warns of Disasters from Warming Tibet Plateau

Chinese scientists have warned that rising temperatures on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau will melt glaciers, dry up major Chinese rivers and trigger more droughts, sandstorms and desertification, state media reported on Thursday.“One of the worst results of the rising temperature on the plateau could be an ultimate change in the volume of water flowing into the […]

China faces pressure achieving energy-saving goal: expert

China is under great pressure and facing many challenges if it hopes to achieve its goal of cutting by 20 percent the amount of energy it uses to produce a unit of GDP, according to a official of the State Council research center. Energy consumption by industries and by people has soared since the beginning […]

Simmons says global oil supply has peaked

Matthew Simmons, chairman of Simmons & Co. International in Houston, talked yesterday with Bloomberg’s Rhonda Schaffler about the need to address energy use, his view that global supply has peaked and the likelihood oil prices could reach as much as $300 a barrel.… I am firmly of the belief that over the course of the […]

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