China’s New Energy Paradigm

One of the most exciting changes is several provinces conservation

Rosneft to spend 10 billion dollars on eastern oil and gas projects

Rosneft will spend ten billion U.S. dollars by 2011 on the development of the Far East itar-tass

More than 3.6 billion barrels of crude oil discovered in S. Iran

More than 3.6 billion barrels of crude oil has been discovered in southern Iran over the past 3-4 months, Iranian Assistant Oil Minister and Managing Director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Gholam Hossein Nowzdi said here Saturday. kuna

Could America lead the world on global warming?

Leaders from three steadfastly right-wing arenas – church, military and industry – are now calling for limits on US emissions. Jim Giles surveys America’s green stampede. With the trinity of industry, military and church now calling for emission limits, we can afford a little optimism. nature

Oilsands: The next generation

Canada’s oilsands invoke images of giant mines, giant trucks and giant companies. Yet the unconventional oil deposits in Alberta are also the playground of numerous Canadian startups that are poised to become the next generation of oilsands developers. While often unappreciated because of the perceived size of the task, this group of players — all […]

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Cali ARB Report on First Steps Toward Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released a draft report on proposed early actions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in California, consistent with the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed on September 27, 2006. greencarcongress

Majority of Californians Concerned about Energy Security and Climate Change

A significant majority of Californians are concerned about climate change and the state greencarcongress

The American Petroleum Institute on peak oil

Anyway, the answer to that question eliminated the need to ask several other questions. Yes, the API considers “Peak Oil theory” to be bunk. Yes, they believe that Yergin is more credible than Simmons. As far as dealing with potential supply shortfalls? They don’t believe that we are facing any potential supply shortfalls. energybulletin

Australia: Fossil fuel feast to deliver us an even drier future

THE Murray-Darling Basin That stand was reinforced when Howard warned water for Murray-Darling irrigators would be cut off from July if significant rain does not soon fall. Scientist, environmentalist and Australian of the year Tim Flannery doesn

Tram backers approach Troutdale

With gasoline prices currently stuck above $3 a gallon, global warming concerns generating headlines and the Portland-metro area gripped in gridlock that only gets worse, alternative transportation methods continue to inch toward the mainstream. But car-pooling, driving a hybrid and taking the bus all pale in comparison to Ben Missler The first stop along that […]

That sinking feeling

On Good Friday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – a network of more than 2500 scientists – issued their latest report on climate change. The news was hardly good.“Sea-level rise is expected to exacerbate inundation, storm surge, erosion and other coastal hazards, thus threatening vital infrastructure, settlements and facilities that support the […]

Peru’s native tribes threatened by oil exploration

Peru’s Ombudsman, the top human rights body in the country, has warned the Peruvian government that uncontacted Indian tribes are threatened with extinction by oil exploration. The uncontacted tribes, numbering an estimated 15 in total, live in the most remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon. Their territories are at serious risk of invasion since the […]

Yemen: The oil production is declining

The production of oil is declining from day to day, said Khalid Mahfoud Bahah, Minster of Oil and Minerals, during his visit to Canadian Nexen Petroleum Blocks 14 and 51 last Thursday. In meetings with Canadian Nexen officials, Bahah spoke about his disappointment about the production of oil. “I was not lucky when I became […]

Truck Gas Mileage Continues To Worsen

While there has been much talk in recent months and years about the importance of improving automobile gas mileage, statistics seem to indicate a largely opposite trend for most models of small trucks. Let’s take a look at how the gas mileage of small trucks has changed over the years…LessWaiting.com News

GAO Report: Climate Change: Significant Financial Risk to Fed.& Private Insurers

Taken together, private and federal insurers paid more than $320 billion in claims on weather-related losses from 1980 to 2005. Claims varied significantly from year to year—largely due to the effects of catastrophic weather events such as hurricanes and droughts—but have generally increased during this period. The growth in population in hazard-prone areas and resulting […]

James Hanson: Why We Can’t Wait

There’s a huge gap between what is understood about global warming by the relevant scientific community and what is known about global warming by those who need to know: the public and policy-makers. We’ve had, in the past thirty years, one degree Fahrenheit of global warming. But there’s another one degree Fahrenheit in the pipeline […]

Armies of Geologists

…I asked Mr. Wang how many students attend the University of Geoscience in Wuhan. “About 20,000,” he replied. “You have 20,000 students majoring in geology?” I asked, stunned at the number. “Oh, no,” he replied with a smile. “Many of our students study in other fields of science, such as physics, chemistry, biology. And we […]

China vs. Earth

The message is clear: Shanghai under water, Tibetan glaciers disappearing, crop yields in precipitous decline, epidemics flaring. These are just some of the dire consequences that Chinese scientists predict for their country this century if current climate change is not addressed. Yet China’s leaders pay about as much attention to the issue as does George […]

Receding Horizons

Last week, energy blogger Robert Rapier published a thorough analysis of what went wrong with thermal depolymerization (TDP), a much-hyped technology that promised to turn anything (starting with turkey guts) into usable oil and other clean, usable byproducts, while being net energy positive and economical. I blogged it myself back in 2004 when it was […]

In search of fuel’s holy grail

OTTAWA — Biochemist Kendall Pye has devoted his long career to the modern equivalent of the alchemist’s dream: a commercially viable process for transforming forest wastes into cellulosic ethanol that could replace gasoline. It was during the energy crisis of the 1970s that Dr. Pye and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania developed a […]

This island Earth

As ecological anxiety increases, the search for radical solutions begins On a freezing night last November, a crush of concerned citizens packed into the General Store Cafe in Pittsboro for a special screening by Chatham County documentarians Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson. What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, a bleak, […]

Hybrid vehicles will impact industry

Everyone wants to cut costs, and with fuel prices creeping inexorably upward, everyone wants engines and power trains that use less fuel, or different, cheaper fuel. But cost alone isn And, as has so often been the case in the past, we might be able to find some of our answers by looking to the […]

Bolivia retakes natural gas pipeline

YACUIBA, Bolivia – The military retook control of a natural gas pipeline to Argentina after days of violent protests at gas installations in southern Bolivia, the government said late Friday. More than 1,000 protesters seized the Yacuiba pipeline station run by Transredes, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. Protesters broke windows, set fire to two […]

Tanker fails to explode near Nigerian election HQ

ABUJA (Reuters) – A petrol tanker laden with gas detonators heading towards Nigeria’s electoral headquarters stopped short of its target and failed to explode on Saturday, hours before voting was due to start in presidential elections. The attempted arson attack in the capital Abuja came hours after militants in the southern oil region stormed the […]

Iran uses more gas per capita than China

Tehran: Iran sits atop the world’s second largest gas reserves after Russia but its national gas company said yesterday it may face rationing if domestic demand continues to increase, a news agency reported. Iran has said it wants nuclear power to generate electricity, allowing it to conserve more of its valuable gas and oil for […]

`Green` energy boom in Germany

Great export numbers and thousands of new jobs — Germany is expecting a ‘green’ economic boom sparked by its renewable energy sector. As early as 2020, sales from wind and solar energy companies will surpass those of automobile and machinery companies, right now among the largest industry sectors in Germany, according to a study from […]

Fischler not optimistic on biofuel opportunities

Former EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler was less than optimistic about opportunities for the biofuel industry in Europe. Not only was Europe less than competitive in raw material price terms with soya from South America or palm oil from South East Asia, but the land requirement for alternatives in Europe was too high, he suggested […]

Clean car seeks green (wealthy) driver

Rules forcing carmakers to build greener vehicles will be of no use unless measures are taken to convince consumers to buy them, experts have agreed in a debate on the Commission’s vehicle-emissions strategy.The EU executive’s recent proposal to introduce binding caps on the amount of carbon dioxide that new cars can emit has created uproar […]

The Complicated Equation for Going Green

Doing the Math on Carbon NeutralityGoing green is the new black in 2007. Advice abounds on how to cut your carbon dioxide output and do your part in the battle against global warming. But how much does a person have to spend to go green–and what kind of environmental impact would that spending actually have?The […]

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