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Governor Bill Richardson Will Be America’s Energy President

Governor Richardson’s five point framework breaks our oil addiction, creates competition and value for consumers, strengthens our national security, creates American jobs and will the lead the world toward effective climate protection. Goal 1–By 2020, dramatically reduce oil consumption by as much as 10 million through a series of bold measures: campaignsandelections

BP could lose control of Russian venture

BP’s Russian unit will be audited by the most-senior environmental regulator this week and stands to lose its license to operate Eastern Siberia’s largest known natural-gas field if it fails. TNK-BP, a venture between BP and private Russian investors, will be audited May 23 on its production at the Kovytka field, where it has a […]

Key To Win-Win Global Warming Solution Is Reducing Tropical Deforestation…

Is BrazilNow, an international team of forest and climate researchers has found that halving deforestation rates by mid-century would account for 12 percent of total emissions reductions needed to keep concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere at safe levels. This work is profiled in a recent issue of Science. medicalnewstoday

The Saudi-American connection

The Saudis have some diplomatic gravitas of their own. Saudi King Abdullah has emerged over the past year as the Bush administration todayszaman

Oil Price

THE average price of gasoline in the United States set a record last week Ms. Cantwell and others planted themselves at the Capitol Hill Exxon just one year ago, for much the same purpose, and countless other lawmakers have staged similar events over the years whenever gasoline prices have climbed sharply. But if the oil […]

Economists foresee bleak growth in biodiesel

As the price of soybeans for the fuel goes up, even soaring petroleum costs may not help the industry Willie Nelson may want to stick to his music. Biodiesel, the fuel additive that the singer has tried to make famous, is eating the dust of corn ethanol. Biodiesel is made primarily from soybean oil, and […]

The 11th Hour

True to its doom-laden title, global-warming doc “The 11th Hour” presents the viewer with reams of depressing data, loads of hand-wringing about the woeful state of humanity and, finally, some altogether fascinating ideas about how to go about solving the climate crisis. Co-produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this latest exercise in celebrity eco-activism lacks […]

Pump paradox

With energy prices so high, what incentive do cash-rich oil-producing nations and multinationals have to increase supplies? As gasoline prices soar to upwards of $1.10 per litre in the GTA, motorists stare at the rapidly revolving figures on the pump and curse multinational oil companies suspected of manipulating prices, governments that reap a tax windfall […]

Are high gasoline prices un-American? Maybe not

…But are low gas prices good for America? Some economists say no. Only sustained high prices will force this nation to develop alternatives to foreign oil, they say. “The only way one can effectively address this problem today and get an immediate kick is by raising the price at the pump and keeping it there,” […]

A Wildcatter Pounces

…Instead of looking for new petroleum sources, the big oil companies now spend more money on strategic and financial maneuvers like acquisitions and share buybacks, according to analysts. Many have also bolstered dividend payments in order to please their shareholders. A decade ago, oil companies spent $2 on exploration for every $1 spent on acquisitions; […]

Sri Lanka: Higher and higher

The plight of the consumer keeps getting worse with prices of gas, electricity, fuel and other items increasing day-by-day while a chain reaction has been set off by the depreciation of the Rupee. Transport costs, food prices sharply shot up during the week with a plain-tea going up by Rs. 2.50, a string-hopper by 50 […]

Asphalt prices pave way for higher costs

The high price of crude oil has pushed up more than just the cost of filling up the family automobile with gasoline at the corner convenience store. It also has forced up the cost of laying down pavement for new roads, filling in the potholes of aging parking lots or reconditioning a home’s leaky roof […]

Solar Flashlight Lets Africa

FUGNIDO, Ethiopia Since August 2005, when visits to an Eritrean village prompted him to research global access to artificial light, Mr. Bent, 49, a former foreign service officer and Houston oilman, has spent $250,000 to develop and manufacture a solar-powered flashlight. His invention gives up to seven hours of light on a daily solar recharge […]

Jamaica: If we should find oil, then what?

Over the last three months, the Government has been hinting at the possibility of oil in the territorial waters of Jamaica. The Prime Minister, in at least one media report, was quoted as saying she wanted all Jamaicans to pray for the discovery of the precious commodity. Given that it is the electoral silly season, […]

Murdoch, She Wrote

An interview with Rupert Murdoch about News Corp.’s new climate strategy When Rupert Murdoch, the cantankerous and conservative owner of Fox News, enthusiastically joins the fight against climate change, you know we’re past the tipping point on the issue. Think landslide.ast week, the media mogul pledged not only to make his News Corp. empire carbon […]

Motorists will dig deep this summer

CALGARY — The dice appear to be loaded against gasoline consumers heading toward summer. While Alberta pump prices in mid-May increased an average eight cents per litre more compared with the same period last year, the hiatus in demand and supply for refined products in the country remains little changed, even with oil prices hovering […]

Media Ignore European Energy Politics to Advance GW Alarmism

Clearly, Russia was saying to its European neighbors that it can do whatever it wants with total impunity if they expect to receive oil and natural gas from the country with one of the world’s largest reserves. But this only scratched the surface. On May 10, Dr. Ing. Hildegard von Liechtenstein of the Thomas More […]

The Zero-Energy Solution

Mike Strizki’s house, the house of the future, the revolutionary house that might very well change our lives forever, is an unremarkable two-story, 3,000-square-foot, white colonial-style kit home in front of which, one rainy day last November, were parked no fewer than seven trucks and cars, a pair of Jet Skis, a speedboat on a […]

Fears over looming energy crisis in UK

Across Britain, cities are plunged into darkness. In London, the Underground grinds to a halt, leaving panicked commuters stranded in oppressively hot carriages. In office blocks, lifts stop operating and the air-conditioning shuts down. Employees swelter in stifling conditions. This is not the postapocalyptic vision of some film-maker, but a realistic scenario as Britain grapples […]

Venezuela May Create Private Oil Drilling Company, Envoy Says

Venezuela, which this week announced plans to nationalize 18 oil rigs operated by international companies, wants to establish a Latin American oil and gas drilling corporation. Such a company would give Petroleos de Venezuela and other Central and South American oil companies an alternative to North American rig operators, seismic providers and service firms, Bernardo […]

Erratic energy prices ‘could hit world economy’

TOP finance officials from the world’s eight wealthiest countries said yesterday that the global economy is on track, but warned that volatile energy prices could disrupt growth. The officials from Germany, Italy, Britain, Japan, Canada, Russia, the United States and France also renewed their calls for better financial governance in Africa and reaffirmed their “commitment […]

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Sweden wants to work with U.S. on renewable energy, leader says

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said Thursday his country is interested in U.S. research on renewable energy and would like to see more cooperation on study and innovation. Reinfeldt toured the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, just outside Denver, to review developments on solar energy, biofuels, wind power and hybrid vehicles. summitdaily

Peak problems

So why don’t we solve this problem by using energy from other sources? One obstacle is that we run our automobiles, heat our homes and power our airplanes with a liquid energy oil. Wind, natural gas and nuclear and solar energy just don’t come in a convenient liquid form. A second major obstacle is quantity. […]

Ahead of the pack on Peak Oil crisis.

Last September the BNP organised a small conference with some key industrial players in the New Forest to discuss the political impact of the Peak Oil crisis. As a political topic it has rarely made the mainstream, rarely mentioned by the Old Gang Lib/Lab/Con party but the article in Saturday bnp

Peak Oil Day 4 – Building an electricity based economy.

So far this week in our series of articles addressing the issue of Peak Oil we have looked at some of the implications of the end of cheap oil. Today we switch gear and publish a lengthy set of proposals for building an electric economy which provides greater energy security and sovereignty over the generation […]

Peak Oil Series Day 3

Today in our series of articles concerning Peak Oil we examine the financial and economic implications resulting from the end of cheap oil. It is an indisputable fact that the world bnp

Oil pricing – between devil and deep blue sea

Global crude oil prices are rising once again. And once again developing countries like India are going to be the worst hit. Consumers in this country may have to face hikes in the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas in the coming months if the situation does not ease soon in world markets. Indian […]

Renewable energy: The tide turns

Senior cabinet ministers are pushing for Britain to be the first nation in the world to get much of its power from the tides, as part of a massive new expansion for renewable energy. The Environment Secretary, David Miliband, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain and Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling want a giant Their move […]

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