Don’t use biofuels to fund farmers: EU trade chief

The European Union must not use a surge in demand for biofuels as a new way to finance its farmers and should instead open up to imports of green fuels, the bloc’s trade chief will say on Thursday. EU agriculture groups see crops for fuels as a money-spinner as Europe moves ahead with plans to […]

CO2 Capture and Storage: The Energy Costs

Capturing carbon dioxide from coal & gas fired electricity plants. Subsequently transporting the CO2 from the plant and storing it underground in (abandoned) oil/gas fields, in other geological formations or on the ocean floor. It seems like an excellent solution for continued fossil fuel use in the coming decades, what are the energy costs? The […]

Texas Begins Desalinating Sea Water

On a one-acre site alongside a string of shrimp boats docked on the Brownsville ship channel stands a $2.2 million assembly of pipes, sheds, and humming machinery – Texas’ entree into global efforts to make sea water suitable to drink. physorg

Iowa State chemist hopes startup company can revolutionize biodiesel production

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Brown says UK energy supply would be ’safeguarded’ by new nuclear power

Britain’s future energy supplies would be ’safeguarded’ by the construction of new nuclear power stations, said Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Speaking at his first Prime Minister’s Questions, Brown said last year’s events in Europe, where Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine, ’should make it clear to everyone that we cannot rely on an energy […]

Saudi Aramco Raises Oil Prices for Europe to a Three-Year High

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest state oil company, increased prices of most crude oil grades for export to Europe to a three-year high as maintenance at North Sea fields increased demand for Middle Eastern and Russian supplies. bloomberg

Statoil makes new gas discovery in Norwegian Sea

Norwegian oil and gas producer Statoil ASA (NYSE:STO) has made a new gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said in a statement. Oil officials said preliminary estimates of the find showed between one and three bln standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable gas. CNN

Ideas panel: Oil dependency comes with consequences

But Harman noted there are two separate bills moving through the Senate and the House that show promise. The bills would enact higher miles-to-the-gallon standards for the automobile industry; promote hybrid plug-in technology; create a program in which all vehicles could be retrofitted with electric power; and restructure energy grids. aspendailynews

Oil on troubled waters

But the voices calling for American withdrawal will be boosted if there is little evidence that Iraq economist

Britain has slashed its reliance on Mideast oil

Britain is now importing only the tiniest fraction of its oil from the Middle East, sourcing its crude instead from the Americas, Africa and Norway, according to intriguing new Government figures. telegraph

Change will ”kill humanity”

Humans will have to learn to use the planet to save themselves if they hope to combat climate change, says Festival of Ideas speaker James Lovelock. That’s the view of Dr Lovelock, who invented the Gaia Theory that treats the world as an organism.He is in Adelaide to speak at the Festival of Ideas, which […]

Chery and Chrysler Group Finalize Small Cars Cooperative Agreement

The Chrysler Group and China greencarcongress

EU Faces Policy Juggle in Push for Biofuels

The European Union is juggling policy priorities ranging from farming to trade as it prepares for a surge in the use of plant-based fuels, a cornerstone of the bloc’s ambitious target for fighting climate change. The 27-nation EU agreed in March that biofuels should make up at least 10 percent of vehicle fuels by 2020.That […]

King Coal on way back with

The comeback of Richard Budge, the mining entrepreneur, was bolstered yesterday with Before that, the 99-year-old mine, the scene of some of the fiercest battles of the 1984 miners’ strike, had been idle for 13 years. It remained so after the purchase by Mr Budge, but in April it started limited production. The prospects for […]

Kirchner denies energy cuts and blames “lobby of companies”

Argentine president Nestor Kirchner denied emphatically on Wednesday that his administration was assessing the “rationalization” of electricity supply to homes and insisted that those versions are only looking “to destabilize his government”. “There are no energy cuts or electricity rate increases under consideration”, said Kirchner adding that “they are always looking for ways to destabilize”, […]

EU states slow on energy-efficiency, environment

In the area of energy-efficiency, member states had reaffirmed their commitment to submit national action plans before July, as requested under an EU directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services, but so far, only three states have done so: Denmark, Finland and the UK. Environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) lamented the […]

Few Are Investing in Alternative Energy

Most U.S. investors see putting money into alternative energy companies as both potentially lucrative and a way to support the environment. But while many might see opportunity, few are taking it. A recent Calvert Group Ltd. survey that coincided with the establishment of an alternative energy fund found that while about 85 percent of investors […]

Iran admits sanctions hurting oil industry

Iran admitted on Tuesday that international sanctions imposed over its controversial nuclear programme were harming its ability to invest in oil infrastructure. “The problems that they have made for banks have troubled financing of some projects,” Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh told the official IRNA news agency.He said that the government was attempting to use […]

Australia says securing oil supply means no Iraq withdrawal

Australia admitted for the first time on Thursday that securing oil supply is a key factor behind its involvement in the United States-led war in Iraq. Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said a review of Australia’s defence strategy to be released Thursday concluded that maintaining ‘resource security’ in the Middle East was a priority.‘The defence update […]

Wilmar reacts angrily to ”defamatory” FoE palm oil report

Wilmar, one of the world’s largest players in the palm oil market, has reacted angrily to what it sees as an “erroneous, misleading and defamatory” report about the conduct of its palm oil operation in Indonesia. The report, ‘Policy, practice, pride and prejudice’, published yesterday (3rd July) by Friends of the Earth Netherlands, accuses Wilmar […]

The Ants of Gaia: It’s only the end of the world, so quit bitching

All the green energy sources and eating right and voting right cannot fix what has been irretrievably ruined, but only make life amid the ruination slightly more bearable. Species gluttony is nearly over and we’ve eaten the earth and pissed upon its bones. Not because we are cruel by nature (though a case might be […]

Russia votes to allow private armies for energy giants

Russia’s parliament voted yesterday to allow the country’s two biggest energy monopolies, Gazprom and the state oil pipeline company Transneft, to employ and arm private security units. Under the deal, Russia’s interior ministry will supply Gazprom with guns from its own armoury. Supporters of the plan say that Russia’s oil and gas installations – which […]

Record 1m new cars sold

Australians have cast aside concerns about global warming to buy a record one million cars in the past financial year. The official figure of 1,004,097 vehicles beats the previous record mark of 981,791 in the 2004-05 financial year. The result came on the back of a record month in June, with sales up 9 per […]

Biofuels ‘to push farm prices up’

The rapidly growing biofuel market will keep farm commodity prices high over the next decade, a key study has said. According to the report, co-written by the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), biofuels will have a major impact on the farming sector. bbc

US petrol demand lifts oil prices

Global oil prices have touched a 10-month high, breaking past the $73 a barrel level in the face of soaring American demand for petrol. With an estimated record 41.4 million Americans hitting the roads for Independence Day travel, analysts predict a squeeze on US petrol stocks. bbc

Shortage fuel for concern

Motorists are feeling the effect of fuel shortages at pipeline terminals across the nation: higher prices and tighter supplies at service stations. …

Balance needed to relieve world food crisis

… Considering the current way that we do business in the world, shrinking resources is a given. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its 2007 Spotlight on Agriculture says that about sixty per cent of our ecosystem services are being degraded or used unsustainably. Bio-diversity is being destroyed, making it more difficult […]

Analysis: Oil-rich Nigeria short on fuel

LAGOS, Nigeria — Fuel shortages will persist in oil-rich Nigeria, with no end in sight, as long as gasoline lines form and refineries slow production. Funso Kupolokun, group managing director of the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC), blamed the long-term problem on the recent cessation of operations in some of the country’s refineries. Refining […]

Ration-hit Argentina admits energy crisis

Argentina has at last admitted that the energy sector Low rainfall has caused problems for hydro-electric dams. Industrialists, who have already made temporary lay-offs, have begun warning that they will have to start cutting jobs soon. Argentina

Stop doing the CBI’s bidding, and we could be fossil fuel free in 20 years

Prospects for renewable power are promising. But it means nothing if the public interest is drowned by corporate power Reading a scientific paper on the train this weekend, I found, to my amazement, that my hands were shaking. This has never happened to me before, but nor have I ever read anything like it. Published […]

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