The President’s State of Emergency Speech

When was the last time you heard a president talk about bees? Well, I have to. We count on them to pollinate our crops, to help make our food, and yet they are vanishing, in vast numbers. 50% gone in some places, 80% in others. It’s bad. Is climate change the cause, or is there […]

The defiant one

Rex Tillerson is way out of line, and he knows it. “They want us to join the parade,” he says, referring to assorted environmentalists, scientists, politicians, investors and others who’ve been lambasting him and the company he heads, Exxon Mobil. He knows what they’re saying about him, and he repeats it: “Get in line. You’re […]

Big Oil bids for giant UAE gas project

At least five international energy companies submitted bids on Sunday for a giant sour gas project in the United Arab Emirates that could be have a price tag as high as $10 billion. The project is one of the largest open to oil and gas companies competing for limited access to the Middle East’s energy […]

Sue us, Chavez tells oil firms

President Hugo Chavez on Friday challenged foreign oil companies to sue his government if they want but said his plans to nationalise their operations in Venezuela’s Orinoco River region would not be derailed. “Whoever wants to sue can sue,” Chavez told a news conference, but Venezuela has “every right” to take over the four oil […]

Commentary: ABC’s Global Warming Program

ABC News has advertised that a program on global warming will soon be aired, hosted by “Good Morning America” anchor Diane Sawyer. The promotional message spoke of how “we are going to lose our home” if we don’t “change our ways.” It seems quite ironic that such programs are surrounded by advertisements encouraging Americans to […]

We Can’t Go On Feeding – And Breeding – Like This

In the Road Runner cartoons there is usually a scene where Wile E. Coyote, chasing the Road Runner, runs off a cliff. He continues on a horizontal line for a couple of seconds, looking increasingly puzzled and concerned, until he realizes his predicament, tries vainly to reverse course, and falls to the desert below. This […]

Iran to build 2 nuclear power plants

Iran said Sunday it is seeking bids for the building of two more nuclear power plants, despite international pressures to curb its controversial program. Ahmad Fayyazbakhsh, the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization in charge of power plants, said the plants would be light-water reactors, each with the capacity to generate up to 1,600 […]

Crop prices soar, push food costs up globally

Soaring prices for farm goods, driven in part by demand for crop-based fuels, are pushing up the price of food worldwide and unleashing a new source of inflationary pressure. The rise in food prices is already causing distress among consumers in some parts of the world – especially relatively poor nations such as India and […]

Myanmar cashes up on energy

YANGON Most have been left in the dark as blackouts stretch through most of the day, even as reclusive officials in the new administrative capital Naypyidaw in central Myanmar enjoy an abundance of energy. The sprawling capital, once a mountainous backwater and home to government and military offices since last year, boasts 24-hour electricity, amply […]

The Quest for Community

According to many statistics, the wealth of our nation continues to grow. And yes, this includes most of the poor Our modern world is one of televisions, computers, big houses, long commutes, and superstores. We might be better off with smaller houses and more family interaction. Main St. stores and farmer

Saudi Aramco, Developers Tie Up in Khursaniyah Mega Oil, Gas Project

(MENAFN – Arab News) KHURSANIYAH, 15 April 2007 Contractors are taking great pride in the safety record of this fast-track, 42-square-kilometer mega-project. Safety officials on the project say this is the result of early planning and the cooperation of thousands of workers on site each day. “We integrated safety into the design process,” said Dave […]

Lighting up Pakistan

…At present, demand for energy exceeds supply. Power outages and planned power cuts (euphemistically termed According to the government

Russia commences construction of floating nuclear power plants

SEVERODVINSK (northern Russia), April 15 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has launched the construction of floating nuclear power plants, the head of Russia’s nuclear power agency said Sunday. Sergei Kiriyenko participated April 15 in the ceremony of laying the foundation for the first floating NPP in the northern city of Severodvinsk. “Today we are signing an […]

Shrinking oilfields alarm observers

Almost a year ago, this column reported the conceivable implosion of Mexico’s Cantarell Oilfield, second largest in the world. This prediction proved to be correct as Cantarell lost a fifth of its production from January 2006 through February 2007. This meant a loss of 400,000 daily barrels of production from this field, dropping from two […]

Eye on Iran, Rivals Pursuing Nuclear Power

Two years ago, the leaders of Saudi Arabia told international atomic regulators that they could foresee no need for the kingdom to develop nuclear power. Today, they are scrambling to hire atomic contractors, buy nuclear hardware and build support for a regional system of reactors. So, too, Turkey is preparing for its first atomic plant. […]

Facing Points

The strategy for the air and road transport industry is perplexing. The renewable fuels obligation means that a percentage of biofuels will be added to oil and gas based fuels, but shortage of agricultural land and competition to food producers will restrict their universal application. Even at the current level of activity, road traffic would […]

Don’t argue about climate change, plan for it

Internecine scientific struggles over defining and measuring global climate change are obscuring more important questions about the policy dimensions of such change. Exacerbating the problem are ostrichlike government attitudes toward climate change that fail to focus attention on the more serious challenges facing society. Individuals, organizations and governments can deny or promote interminably the premise […]

Report blames coal-fired plants for carbon dioxide increases

A report released Thursday by an Illinois environmental group blames coal-fired power plants for nearly half the country’s increase in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels between 2000 and 2004. Carbon dioxide emissions increased 22 percent in Illinois and 18 percent across the country during that time, according to the report from Environment Illinois and […]

Russia to Display Alernative Energy Projects

It has been learnt that for the first time Russia for the first time will exhibit alternative energy projects including Hydrogen at the Hanover Fair, the famous industrial fair in Germany. It has been stated, that Mr. Boris Kuzyk, the Head of the National Innovation Company New Energy Projects announced about the participation all by […]

Philippines: Time to revisit nuclear energy for us

I was spring cleaning when I came across Marcos’ handwritten notes on receivables from Westinghouse. It was under a column marked foreign investments. Marcos was accused of making $80M in kickbacks on the plant. With Iran’s current struggle to be nuclear empowered, it is tempting to compare Manila and Tehran and how differently their governments […]

Energy crisis? Not for the Danes

What’s life like without a cheap and endless supply of petroleum? Ask the Danes. The country was almost totally dependent on the imported fuel for its energy needs when the world was struck by an oil crisis. War in the Middle East and an oil embargo sent the country a painful wake-up call — oil […]

Oil prices risk to financial stability: RBI

Policy-makers need to watch the evolving global economic situation ‘carefully’ and be prepared to “respond to emerging challenges promptly and effectively”, Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor said. “While I see good prospects for the global economy, there are a number of risks emanating from the behaviour of oil prices, adverse developments in the US […]

Natural gas ‘future’ for oil industry

Quadrupling Australia’s natural gas capacity could be both an environmental and economic solution to the challenges facing the industry, a major international conference will hear this week. More than 1500 delegates from Australia and 18 other countries will this week attend the annual Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) conference in Adelaide – the […]

Australian Oil Body Seeks Tax Breaks for Exploration, Projects

Australia’s oil and gas companies need better tax incentives to encourage exploration in new areas and to help develop large natural gas projects, the industry’s biggest lobby group said. The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, or APPEA, will tomorrow call for five-year capital depreciation for large gas projects, and a tax allowance for drilling […]

SPE official sees oil and gas as ’sunrise, not sunset’ industry

“Some call us a sunset industry, like we’re over the hill,” commented Bill Cobb, who will assume the presidency of the Society of Petroleum Engineers International in November. “I say ‘Hey, we are a sunrise industry.’ I know of no other industry that utilizes higher technology than the oil and gas industry, from computers to […]

Bolivia’s Gas Problems

Much of the recent news in Bolivia has been about the ongoing problems of the Morales Administration is having in implementing its much-heralded “gas nationalization” decree. The musical chair dramas of coming and going government gas officials, revelations about poorly drawn contracts, and a basic lack of professional capacity at the highest levels have cast […]

Global Warming Pollution Up in 48 States Since 1990

Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to huliq

Military Sharpens Focus on Climate Change

The U.S. military is increasingly focused on a potential national security threat: climate change. Just last month the U.S. Army War College funded a two-day conference at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies titled “The National Security Implications of Global Climate Change.” And tomorrow, a group of 11 retired senior generals will release a report […]

Water instead of gas

The possible solution to the country’s dependence on foreign oil has been invented – in Galesburg. James D. Hunt, a student at Carl Sandburg College, believes his on-demand, hydrogen fuel generation system can save consumers thousands of dollars. Hunt said a short summary of the process is “hydrogen extraction from water via plasmatic induction. By […]

Russian gas giant moves in on British consumers

Gazprom is planning to sell energy direct to UK households using its own brand name, undercutting British Gas and other gas and electricity suppliers. The Russian gas giant already provides a quarter of Europe’s wholesale gas to domestic suppliers. But in a move that will alarm other gas and electricity retailers, Gazprom intends to cut […]

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