Speeders in Germany won’t brake for global warming

Few things are closer to the German heart than the freedom to drive like Michael Schumacher, the Formula One champion. Rule-bound and risk-averse in so many other ways, Germans regard driving on the autobahn at face-peeling speeds as close to an inalienable right. Now, though, Germany’s love of speed is colliding with its fears about […]

Energy policy makes strange bedfellows

Picture this: A conservative Republican who backed the invasion of Iraq and is an avowed capitalist sitting shoulder to shoulder with a Socialist whose party says America is the biggest threat to world peace … … and be delighted to be together …Sen. Richard Lugar (the conservative capitalist, of course) and Erik Solheim (the Socialist […]

Yukos investor warns oil giants: ‘We will sue you for billions’

The owners of Yukos have warned BP and other Western companies they face claims for billions of pounds in compensation if they participate in this week’s auction of the former Russian oil giant’s remaining assets. TNK-BP, the Russian subsidiary of BP, said on Friday that it would bid for bankrupt Yukos’s shares in the rival […]

IEA report shows oil demand is up, supplies are down

The International Energy Agency released its monthly Oil Market Report last week. According to the report, the agency expects global demand to increase by +1.8 percent in 2007.The IEA report says the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development inventories decreased 8.6 million barrels in January. The data for February suggests stock piles may have fallen […]

T. Boone Pickens to discuss peak oil concerns with Midland audience

Boone Pickens made a name for himself in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he was labeled a corporate raider for efforts to take over companies like Gulf Oil Co., which ended up being absorbed by Chevron. The Texas-based oil man, son of an Oklahoma oil man, protests he never considered himself a corporate […]

Cuba hopeful of richer oil deposits

Cuban oil officials took foreign geologists and petroleum experts on a tour of the island’s oil and natural gas works on Saturday in hopes of sparking more international interest in investment. Attendees at an earth sciences conference were taken to several extraction facilities in a deposit-rich strip along the northern part of the island, including […]

As Arctic melts, nations line up for oil, other rights

Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island is very hard to find on a map. Yet these days the Frisbee-shaped rock in the Arctic is much in demand — so much so that Canada and Denmark have both staked their claim to it with flags and warships. The reason: an international race for oil, fish, diamonds and […]

Five years to save the orang utan

The Orang Utan, one of man’s closest and most enigmatic cousins, could be virtually extinct within five years after it was discovered that the animal’s rainforest habitat is being destroyed even more rapidly than had been predicted. A United Nations report has found that illegal logging and fires have been overtaken as the primary cause […]

China starts drilling Asia’s deepest oil, gas well

China has started to drill an 8,875-meter-deep well in southwestern Sichuan Province to explore an untapped underground oil and gas field, sources with Sinopec Corp. said on Saturday. With an estimated investment of 300 million yuan (38.8 million U.S. dollars), the drilling of the well, named “Chuanke No.1 Well”, started in Mianzhu City in western […]

India committed to IPI project, says minister

India is committed to a multi-billion dollar pipeline that will transport gas from energy-rich Iran through Pakistan despite reported objections from United States, Oil Minister Murli Deora said on Saturday. Despite being US allies in its so-called dawn

How you’ll pay for renewable power

Now the federal government is getting in on the act, with a couple of proposals in Congress for a nationwide standard – something along the lines of 15 percent by 2020. Currently about 2 to 3 percent of electricity in the U.S. comes from renewable sources, not including big hydro dams. The idea is to […]

Algae Biofuel Company to Grow Miscanthus as Biofuel Feedstock

AlgoDyne Ethanol Energy, the developers of a proprietary based process to continuously harvest algae biomass from photobioreactors to produce electricity and fuel, is acquiring 3,000 acres of agricultural land in Saskatchewan, Canada, to grow bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus. greencarcongress

Toronto Targets 30% Cut in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2020, 80% by 2050

The city of Toronto, Ontario, has released a planning framework that targets a 6% cut in greenhouse gas emissions from the Toronto urban area by 2012 (based on 1990 levels), a 30% cut by 2020, and an 80% reduction by 2050. The targets mirror recently announced European Union goals. Additionally, the City will reduce levels […]

Security Council Raises Sanctions on Nuclear Iran

The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed Saturday to impose new, more stringent sanctions to press Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and rejoin negotiations over its nuclear program. All 15 members of the Security Council adopted the sanctions, Resolution 1747, which focuses on constraining Iranian arms exports, the state-owned Bank Sepah nytimes

How to boost Wind Power Development

Swedish researchers have recently analysed the potential for future wind power development in Sweden, with special emphasis on what constitutes the main obstacles to further diffusion of windmills in the country fona

S. Arabia not planning oil market crash

There is no question of Saudi Arabia engineering an oil market crash, Dr Fatih Chalabi, the executive director at the Centre for global Energy Studies, and a former Opec acting secretary general told this correspondent in his office in Central London last week. The reports that Saudi Arabia is about to engineer oil market collapse […]

Village that’s saving the world

It is not your usual pub fare, but Ashton Hayes is no ordinary place: the 1,000 residents have set themselves on a mission to become Britain’s first carbon neutral community. Elsewhere, other networks are springing up. Thirteen ‘Transition Towns’, mostly in the West Country, have been proclaimed by people worried about climate change and oil […]

McFarlane: Renewable Energy Best Solution To Terror Threats

The United States should accelerate development of renewable energy sources because of increased risk from terrorist attacks that could cripple the economy, former national security adviser Robert McFarlane said Saturday. Speaking at a renewable energy summit organized by Sen. Ken Salazar, McFarlane, who was national security adviser for President Reagan, said an attack last year […]

CBC Ottawa news story on peak oil

From “GliderGuider”: Last week CBC Ottawa did a short feature news piece on Peak Oil, featuring yours truly. The camera work is a bit dodgy, but the reporter told the story reasonably accurately. The clip is hosted on YouTube, here is a link through a page on my web site.YouTube

Canada ranked fifth in ability to increase oil production

CALGARY — Canada has been ranked fifth in a new global oil grouping unveiled Thursday by an independent energy analyst in testimony in Washington to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Called Oil-15, or O-15, the new order put together by Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, includes all OPEC states

Open ANWR for Alaskans

The opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has everything to do with Alaska Alaskans will again hear from our legislators about citizen taxation and raiding of the Permanent Fund. Prospects of a natural gas pipeline seem to be in a never-ending process that might not even come to a project. I felt more optimistic […]

Pakistan: Handle pipeline politics cautiously

Another snag has cropped up in the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) project, which must be handled carefully. India has threatened to pull out of the $7 billion dollar gas pipeline project if Islamabad does not bring down the transit fees it wants to charge for allowing the pipeline to pass through its territory to India. The pipeline […]

Gov wants answers from feds about rising energy prices in Ariz.

MESA, Ariz. — After seeing the cost of gasoline rose 20 cents per gallon in the past two weeks, Gov. Janet Napolitano wants federal energy officials to investigate the sudden spike in energy prices that is hitting Arizona. Napolitano sent a letter Friday to U.S. Energy Department Director Samuel Bodman, stating that she wants a […]

Ghana: Businesses face more difficult times

Businesses in the country would have to brace themselves for more difficult times ahead with the power rationing exercise set to worsen as the country’s energy crisis deepens. Many businesses have already either shut or cut down drastically on production following the non availability of power in adequate supplies. Businesses in the country would have […]

The Transition to Renewable Energy

There is currently no strategy or proposal on the table for the needed energy conversion to renewable sources for transportation and energy production. For all the hoopla about Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and given Senator Gore’s own background in the Executive and Legislative branches of the Federal Government, there is little in the […]

Mexico Must Invest to Produce Crude

Mexico (Prensa Latina) The Mexican Oil Enterprise (PEMEX) will have to invest between eight and nine billion dollars additionally a year to just maintain crude and natural gas production, asserted an official from that branch. For this purpose the entity find a way to increase its own resources, said Mario Gabriel Budebo, Energy Secretariat Hydrocarbon […]

Nuclear Fusion: Energy for the Future?

When it comes to energy sources, nuclear fusion used to be the wallflower. But now, scientists are working to see if it could be a safe and environmentally-friendly way of producing electricity. The energy crisis has rocketed from a textbook concept into the most pressing political issue of our time. Future energy supplies are increasingly […]

Ethanol Hype: Corn Can’t Solve Our Problem

…Although current Brazilian ethanol is environmentally friendly, the long-term environmental implications of buying more ethanol and biodiesel from Brazil, a possibility raised recently during President Bush’s trip to that country, are cloudy. It could be harmful to both the climate and the preservation of tropical plant and animal species if it involved, directly or indirectly, […]

Taiwan discovers frozen natural gas

Taiwan has found off its coast huge deposits of frozen natural gas, known as the ‘ice that burns’ and billed as the energy source of the future, a newspaper said Saturday. A team of Taiwanese and Japanese researchers have succeeded in extracting samples of methane hydrate from the ocean floor off Taiwan’s southwest coast and […]

An in-depth look at Brazil’s “Social Fuel Seal”

Even though the Brazilian biofuels revolution has been a scientific, agronomic and technological success, it has not been a very equitable one. Professor Ignacy Sachs, economist at the EHESS, green geopolitical thinker, eminence grise of development economics, and expert [*.pdf] on the social effects of Brazil’s ethanol industry, is formal: the sector has strengthened an […]

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