Burma: Natural Gas Project Threatens Human Rights

Proposed pipeline construction from gas fields off the coast of Burma is expected to exacerbate serious human rights abuses in Burma, Human Rights Watch said today. Based on experience from previous oil and gas projects in Burma, Human Rights Watch expressed concern that the proposed construction of overland pipelines to transport the gas will involve […]

SK: Lauded Energy Achievement is Actually a Disaster

The news that China is about to buy all the natural gas from Burma’s offshore wells clearly shows how helpless Korea is against Asia’s super-power. Energy experts have criticized the government for failing to take necessary measures and instead bragging about its dubious energy achievement. In a nutshell, Korea has failed in its energy diplomacy.The […]

Pakistan: Govt plans to use biomass plants

The government plans to produce bio-energy by utilising biomass plants, residues like wheat straw, rice husk, cotton sticks, corn cobs, kallar grass and other salt tolerant plants. The project is proposed to be completed during 2007-2010, with an estimated cost of Rs 295.4 million. The production of bio-energy from plant residues is in vogue in […]

Namibia: Powering Country By Nuclear Energy

The world’s demand for energy will grow by 3.2 percent in this year and the fuel prices will fluctuate around US$60-80 a barrel. Record oil prices are fuelling an economic boom in the Middle East and their oil-export revenue will reach US$305 billion in 2006. However, the many developing countries spent all their fortunes to […]

India grapples with energy issues

India needs to act fast. More than half of its power plants are either shut or running at half their capacity because of a coal shortage. Most of India’s power plants are coal-based. According to government estimates, India’s dependence on crude-oil import will rise by 86.3% by 2011-12 from 78.3% at present (2006-07). New Delhi […]

Energy gap can spur economic revolution – if we seize the chance

“Mind the gap” is a common phrase for commuters across the country, but it isn’t a phrase you would normally associate with turning on the lights or flicking on the kettle. However, the United Kingdom is facing the prospect of an energy gap. Rising demand coupled with lower outputs and the tightening of carbon emissions […]

Ecuador suffering huge losses from oil protests: president

Ecuador is losing 500,000 U.S. dollars every day as a result of protests by local residents at Amazon-based production sites of Brazilian state oil company Petrobras, President Rafael Correa said Friday. Petrobras stopped pumping crude oil eight days ago in the Amazon area when local people started protesting and damaging pipelines at oil production sites, […]

What’s happened to Iraq’s oil?

Iraq’s descent into violence, coupled with paralysis and corruption in government, has stymied efforts to rebuild the infrastructure of roads, schools, hospitals and industry. In many cases, there is little to show for the billions of dollars spent on reconstruction since the American-led invasion in 2003. The oil sector is a good example of what […]

Iran asking oil clients not to pay in dollar

Iran, embroiled in a nuclear row with Washington, is asking more clients to pay for oil in currencies other than the dollar and 60 per cent or more of its crude income is in other units, an official said yesterday. Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, international affairs director of state-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), told Reuters almost […]

China to become a top oil client: Chavez

President Hugo Chavez said China is set to rival the United States as Venezuela’s top oil buyer as he announced new plans with the Asian powerhouse to jointly ship oil, build refineries and expand crude production. Chavez, speaking Friday after meeting with an official from the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., told reporters that, “As […]

Giant oil fields and their importance for future oil production

The domination of giant fields in global oil production confirms a concept where they govern future production. A model, based on past annual production and URR, has been developed to forecast future production from giant fields. The results, in combination with forecasts on new field developments, heavy oil and oil sand, are used to predict […]

US Congress Holds Hearing on Oil Dependence

But he said the world will become increasingly dependent on oil imports from Africa. “It is important that this country [the United States] encourage good governance in these countries as they produce their oil. It’s very important, not only because it will improve the social and economic circumstances of the citizens of these countries, but […]

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The Climate Change Climate Is Changing

Luckily, for investors in the alternative energy sector, many of the present generation of entrepreneurs see the technology they are developing for what it is – a disruptor in a market where the incumbent players still employ business models based on the exploitation of a fast disappearing resource. For every starry eyed enthusiast who wants […]

JUNO Oil Outlook – Feb 2007

The first full year of Peak Oil, that is structural undersupply simultaneously affecting markets in different world locations, is at minimum possible, and increasingly probable for June 2007-June 2008. This may be an on-again/off-again phenomenon, but will surely add more power to oil price volatility. Volatility, and downside risk for the near-term oil price is […]

China seen topping U.S. carbon emissions in 2007

China is on course to overtake the United States this year as the world’s biggest carbon emitter, estimates based on Chinese energy data show, potentially pressuring Beijing to take more action on climate change. sciam

Antarctic melting may be speeding up, scientists say

Rising sea levels and melting polar ice-sheets are at upper limits of projections, leaving some human population centers already unable to cope, top world scientists say as they analyze latest satellite data. “I feel that we’re getting uncomfortably close to threshold,” said Church, of Australia’s CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. “Past this level, parts of […]

Venture Capitalist Predicts Rapid Expansion of Biofuels Industry

WASHINGTON–A top venture capitalist and a prominent biotechnology industry business consultant today both said that the biofuels industry is poised for exceptional growth and that ethanol from cellulose appears to be the most promising alternative fuel over the long-term. During keynote speeches at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, Vinod Khosla of Khosla […]

CSI: Examining California’s Ambitious Solar Program

As the California Solar Initiative (CSI) moves into its fourth month, solar businesses in the state are still figuring out how to maneuver through the changing industry landscape and handle some of the issues that have arisen from the state-wide program. The goal of the CSI is to install 3,000 megawatts (MW) of commercial and […]

Energy Consumption by European Transport Sector Grew 28.6% Since 1990

Final energy consumption in the EU-25 countries increased by 12.6% between 1990 and 2004, according to the European Environment Agency. Between 2003 and 2004, total final energy consumption grew by 1.1%. The fastest growing sector is transport, followed by households and services. greencarcongress

S Africa sees Zimbabwe ‘meltdown’

South Africa’s deputy foreign minister has made the country’s strongest comments on neighbouring Zimbabwe, saying it was on the brink of meltdown. Aziz Pahad said it was now difficult to see how the country could avoid a complete collapse. South Africa has come under pressure from the West over its reluctance to voice criticism of […]

Serendipitous sensors reveal secrets of storm surge

Hurricanes can wreak havoc by creating a storm surge newscientist

There is a God

WASHINGTON – Former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles pleaded guilty Friday to obstruction of justice, becoming the ninth person and the highest-ranking Bush administration official convicted in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Second in rank only to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Griles effectively was Interior’s chief operating officer while at the agency between July […]

Playing With War

The Washington Post has promoted the war in Iraq from Day One. They still are, despite nervous protestations about “mistakes made” here and there. Of course CheneyBush are still in favor of the war. They are doctrinaire imperialists, so how could they be otherwise? Their plan was to assemble a staging area within the middle […]

Bill McKibben says we’re stuffed

We’ve eaten, developed and drilled to near oblivion, says the environmental writer. It’s time to realize that having more stuff is not the road to paradise. Oh, really? …The supply of fossil fuels that has put an end to scarcity in much of the Western world and continues to drive the dizzying economic growth of […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: Market Disconnect 2

If supply and demand were in some kind of balance that just needed leaving alone, we would live in paradise. Unfortunately for neo-classical economists their narrow view of human existence – and the economic theories that emanate from it – fails to take into account people like OPEC, Gordon Brown and the American driver. It […]

The Deception Behind Oil’s Future

Oil prices over the next ten years are going to alter the way our world operates. Peak oil is the reason. Oil companies may denounce peak oil as a “myth,” but in a few short years they’ll have nothing more to hide behind. Lies, Profits and Deceit You have been hoodwinked for years. The problem […]

U.S. Congressional Research Service: Ethanol and biofuels

High petroleum and gasoline prices, concerns over global climate change, and the desire to promote domestic rural economies have greatly increased interest in biofuels as an alternative to petroleum in the U.S. transportation sector. Biofuels, most notably corn-based ethanol, have grown significantly in the past few years as a component of U.S. motor fuel supply. […]

TSR Raises Forecast for Atlantic Hurricane Season

Tropical Storm Risk (TSR), a consortium of experts on insurance, risk management and seasonal climate forecasting led by the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre at University College London, has increased its forecast for Atlantic hurricane activity in 2007. Based on current and projected climate signals, TSR’s March forecast predicts Atlantic basin and US landfalling hurricane […]

Space-breeding and nuclear techniques to improve cassava as an energy crop

Mohan Jain outlines different breeding techniques – from classic plant tissue culture and somatic embryogenesis over innovative breeding techniques in space to nuclear techniques for inducing useful mutations – and indicates why cassava makes for an ideal bioenergy feedstock. […] Energy requirements of cassava represent only 5Biopact.

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