The 90 Percent Solution

When it comes to the need to reduce carbon emissions, how far is far enough?An Interview wth George MonbiotOne of the criticisms of Al Gore’s message on climate change is that he exaggerates the imminence of the threat—implying, for instance, that sea levels may rise more quickly than scientists feel comfortable saying. But a few […]

Conservation

Enough talk already. We have spent the past decade debating a scientific consensus on global warming instead of moving to fix it. In these lost years, we could have created millions of jobs, opened up vast new markets, improved the health of our citizens, slowed global warming, saved the taxpayers bostonherald

The power of trash

It seems an odd place to discover part of America’s alternative energy future — a huge dump, buried under massive snow drifts, in Vermont’s remote Northeast Kingdom. But deep inside Coventry’s vast landfill, decomposing tomatoes, orange peels, and grass clippings are creating powerful gases such as methane. boston

Energy Policy: A Norwegian Perspective

We expect a substantial increase in world energy demand in the years ahead – an increase of 50% from today petroleumworld

Gazprom Seeks $1 Trillion Value, Twice Exxon’s, as Soon as 2014

OAO Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas export monopoly, aims to quadruple its market value to $1 trillion within a decade and become the world’s biggest company. “We will reach a $1 trillion market capitalization in a period of seven to 10 years,” Deputy Chief Executive Officer Alexander Medvedev, 51, said in a Moscow interview on April […]

Oil and Gas Reserves Shrinking

The country’s oil reserves shrank by 7.3 billion barrels from 1994 to 2005 as the country failed to replace dwindling West Siberian reserves with new discoveries in East Siberia and other regions, an official said Friday. “The proportion of reserves that can be extracted has fallen from 42 percent at the start of the 1990s […]

Royal Dutch Shell may lose management control of Sakhalin Energy

Royal Dutch Shell PLC could lose management control of Sakhalin Energy, the Russian company which runs the giant Sakhalin project in eastern Siberia, according to The Sunday Telegraph. The newspaper did not name its source, but said under an agreement signed last year a Gazprom appointee could end up running the project.The newspaper said it […]

What Does Iraq’s New Oil Law Say About an Invasion?

Iraq’s new oil-hydrocarbon law, and the push to see it quickly passed, has begun to raise serious questions among observers and critics. The Iraqi cabinet approved the hydrocarbon law on Feb. 26 and sent it on to parliament where it now sits. If fully approved, Iraq’s oil reserves would be opened to investment from foreign […]

Russian general: U.S. continues preparations for military action against Iran

The release of the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran has robbed the U.S. of a pretext to attack Iran, but the U.S. has not given up plans to attack Iran militarily, said Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, president of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems, a Russian think tank. “Preparations to strike Iran’s strategic […]

Pemex turns to horizontal wells to boost oil output

Petroleos Mexicanos is increasing the use of horizontal wells that allow a single platform to pull oil from a larger area to maximize dwindling reserves at the Cantarell field, the Wall Street Journal said.. The company, the third biggest oil supplier to the U.S., plans to drill more such wells this year as part of […]

Oceans could provide turning point in global warming

USA TODAY’s article “Project aims to ’seed’ oceans to heal them,” highlights scientific research that could someday be considered a turning point in the battle against global warming (Life, Tuesday). But though the iron seeding approach could be the silver bullet to reverse warming in our lifetime, it must be aimed carefully. usatoday

Security at Mexican oil facilities remain vulnerable to attack

When a group claiming to be part of al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia called in February for jihadists to strike Mexican oil installations in a bid to cripple the U.S. economy, Mexico announced that its navy had gone on alert and had stepped up surveillance of offshore oil platforms and port facilities. A month later, however, […]

Whatever happened to oil sands takeovers?

There have been lots of rumours but no big energy deals during the past year For the past year, practically every Calgary-based company with oil sands assets has been the subject of takeover speculation, with foreign companies presumed to be champing at the bit to get a slice of the region’s huge reserves. Along with […]

European Ethanol Production Climbs 71% in 2006

European ethanol production rose 71% in 2006 to around 1.56 billion liters (412 million gallons US), according to data published by eBio, the European Bioethanol Fuel Association. greencarcongress

A Plastic Wrapper Today Could Be Fuel Tomorrow

Scientists worldwide are struggling to make motor fuel from waste, but Richard Gross has taken an unusual approach: making a nytimes

Saudi Arabia may join nuclear club

DOHA, April 9 (UPI) — Kuwaiti researcher Abdullah al-Nufaisi told a seminar in Doha, Qatar, that Saudi Arabia is preparing a nuclear program, the Middle East Newsline reported. He said Saudi scientists were urging the government to launch a nuclear project, but had not yet received approval from the ruling family. Riyadh denies any intention […]

Life after oil

Occasionally when I visit my public library, I discover the most unexpected books sitting on the shelves. A few weeks ago, while helping to choose out some picture books, I chanced upon Henry’s Quest, a children’s book that imagines what life would be like in our world after peak oil. In addition to being about […]

Oil prices endure volatile week

World oil prices jumped to almost $70 a barrel during a shortened trading week, owing to heightened tensions over Iran Prices fell later in the week, however, after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad allowed 15 British sailors, held by Tehran for almost a fortnight for allegedly entering Iranian waters, to fly home. Prices were also weighed […]

Iran to build first European ethanol refinery in Bosnia

TEHRAN, (MNA) He said the contract worth $150 million, adding that a plot of land will be allocated to the project for 50 years and the fuel will be exported to Austria, Germany, and Black Sea. Mehr News Agency

Scientists get last say in climate study

BRUSSELS – Two distinctly different groups, data-driven scientists and nuanced offend-no-one diplomats, collided and then converged this past week. At stake: a report on the future of the planet and the changes it faces with global warming. An inside look at the last few hours of tense negotiations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

Michael Klare: Wars For Water?

For years, experts and pundits have predicted that conflicts will increase over an ever scarcer and more valuable commodity: water. The fear has been that as populations grow and development spreads, vicious battles will erupt between water-rich and water-poor nations, particularly in major river basins where upstream nations control the flow of water to those […]

U.N. report raises pressure on China to cut pollution

As China’s economy roars ahead, leaving Technicolor rivers and polluted skies in its wake, the world’s most populous nation has struggled to craft environmental policies that will appease growing numbers of critics at home and abroad. Traditionally, many of the issues outlined in Friday’s ominous United Nations report on climate change have been framed here, […]

Edwards on conserving energy, seriously

“Today we’re 4 percent of the world’s population,” Mr. Edwards told the college crowd, but “we emit 25 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases. That is not an example for good.” Describing the situation as an “emergency,” he outlined the consequences for the world: “hundreds of millions of people migrating, political upheaval, not enough food, […]

Forces dig in for energy battle

A four-year battle to bring liquefied natural gas to California comes to a head beginning this week, as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and two state commissions make key decisions on a project that pits the state’s dependence on fossil fuels against the push to boost renewable energy and combat climate change. sfgate

Outlook on power, oil & gas and telecom sector for 2007

International crude oil prices have softened considerably from peak levels. This trend is believed to continue, though with temporary spikes stemming from geopolitical uncertainty and weather-related demand. Domestic upstream companies will continue to benefit from the higher than historical crude oil prices though the gains would be moderated by GoI’s sharing mechanism – under which […]

India: Confusion reigns supreme over biofuel policy

India’s biofuels policy is clearly suffering from a too-many-cooks syndrome, with multiple ministries holding divergent views on the basic contours of the policy. “There is total confusion on the biofuels policy. Each ministry – petroleum and natural gas, new and renewable energy (MNES) and rural development (RD) – is carrying out its own programme,” a […]

U.S., China softened global warming report

Some sections of a grim scientific assessment of the impact of global warming on human, animal and plant life issued in Brussels yesterday were softened at the insistence of officials from China and the United States, participants in the last week of negotiations said. In particular, American negotiators managed to eliminate language in one section […]

Global nuclear boom expected

A global “nuclear renaissance,” the cliche for a growth in nuclear power plant construction, is not merely talk, according to a new report by the Cambridge Energy Research Associates. New reactors are in various phases, from planning to construction, and even the United States, which hasn’t approved a new reactor since 1978, will likely take […]

Danish Energy Plan Boosts Hydrogen

The Danish Government’s latest energy plan will accelerate the development and market acceptance of hydrogen vehicles by exempting them from taxes. The plan also calls for $166 million per year to be spent on energy research, with as much as $33 million annually going to hydrogen fuel cell development. The goals of the Energy Plan […]

Iraq claims largest oil reserves in the world

Iraq has oil reserves that are estimated at over 300 billion barrels, making the country the world leader in this sphere, the Iraqi oil minister said Saturday. In his interview with the Lebanese Al Mashrik newspaper, Hussain al-Shahristani did not specify, though, whether this figure referred to confirmed oil reserves or to a general estimate.According […]

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