Group files suit to block coal plant

An environmental group filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to block public financing of a coal-fired power plant near Great Falls because of its potential to exacerbate global warming, pollute surrounding communities and degrade a historic trail. With seven more coal plants nationwide up for similar rural development loans, an attorney for the group Earthjustice […]

Chinese coal company eyes Montana

HELENA – Executives with a Chinese company are meeting with the governor and his staff this week, discussing the possibility of building a coal plant in Montana. Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s chief economic development aide Evan Barrett said discussions with the Yankuang Group were not focused on a specific project. “They’re kicking tires,” Barrett said.Executives from […]

Australia: New coal plant won’t harm targets

NSW can build a coal-fired power station without busting its short-term greenhouse gas emission targets, says the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Phil Koperberg. Mr Koperberg was optimistic that technology that captured carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants and buried it would be available before 2025. He was also confident that renewable energy […]

The Oil Drum: Coal reserves and resources – a gentle cough

I have written recently about some of the reasons that coal reserves, as currently understood, might not be quite as large, at present, as they are assumed to be. However, while I could continue on that tack for some additional time, it is perhaps time to give a gentle cough and suggest that there is […]

Warm Water Creatures May Soon Rule the Oceans

Warm-water sea creatures may one day rule the oceans as their cold-water competitors fail to adapt to climate change. This scenario is suggested by a new study which concludes that a species of Antarctic limpets, a type of small mollusk, can’t grow as fast as their limpet cousins in warmer climates. Being introduced to warmer […]

Migrating to New Energy Paradigms Part 2 – The Economic Importance of Crude Oil

…Emerging energy paradigms drive technological innovations by entrepreneurs, which, as a consequence of their commercialisation and market penetration drive the world economy. Armed with this understanding, we see that the US’s (and Australia’s) failure to ratify the Kyoto protocols was life threatening to all of humanity. The core issue had nothing to do with CO2 […]

How Our Fossil Fuel Dependence Is Jeopardizing Our Healthcare System

The scale and subtlety of our country’s dependency on oil and natural gas cannot be overstated. Nowhere is this truer than in our medical system. Petrochemicals are used to manufacture analgesics, antihistamines, antibiotics, antibacterials, rectal suppositories, cough syrups, lubricants, creams, ointments, salves, and many gels. Processed plastics made with oil are used in heart valves […]

Book examines how dwindling oil supplies will cause economic crisis

Today, with oil more than $60 a barrel and more than double the price in 2003, According to the book, the economic crisis is the result of a conflict between increased global demand for energy and our growing inability to increase energy production on a long-term basis. In the 1970s, the oil crisis was primarily […]

Fuel costs forcing charity to turn away patients

To save fuel, volunteer pilot Bill Davidson now packs more than one sick passenger onto his shiny six-seat Piper Malibu airplane when he makes a hospital run. So, on a recent afternoon flight from Houston back to Denton, 19-month-old Marisol Salas, who suffers from a nerve disorder called brachial plexus, sat across from Lenore Kinzenbaw, […]

Energy industry gears up for `nuclear renaissance`

McClean Lake, Canada, July 24: Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster poisoned the world’s taste for reactors, a French firm is sniffing out fresh uranium supplies in Canada. And the race for nuclear power is back on. After the deadly Chernobyl reactor explosion in Ukraine in 1986 and a lesser scare at the Three Mile […]

You got to love those OPEC softies

The sentiment was almost touching. OPEC is concerned about us and our economic well being. Doesn Still oil is getting close to its seasonal peak. Oil prices are vulnerable to big correction in August and perhaps the OPEC change of heart may cause some of the speculative longs to take some profits. Without any hurricanes […]

Electricity Showdown in California

California passed two major greenhouse gas laws last year. One mandates reducing CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 — perhaps as much as a 40% cut. The other prohibits the renewal of electricity contracts from traditional coal-fired plants. Together, these laws threaten to increase the cost of all forms of energy, making the Golden […]

Iraq oil exports to U.S. second lowest in near 4 yrs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iraq’s crude oil shipments to the United States in May fell to the second lowest monthly level in almost four years, the U.S. Energy Department said on Monday. Iraq exported 341,000 barrels of crude oil a day to the U.S. market in May, down 39 percent from the month before. The Energy […]

Zimbabwe government to take over fuel importation: report

Zimbabwe’s government is planning to take over the importation of all fuel in a bid to stop the abuse of foreign currency by private importers, South African public television reported Monday. Harare has accused many of the 54 private importers of abusing foreign currency allocated to them, and wants the state-owned National Oil Company of […]

Kissinger

The West — and particularly the United States — needs to come to grips with Russia But that plan has failed. The war in Iraq is lost and the longer America stays, the harder the fall will be. Oil will not continue to be traded in petrodollars, the USD will lose its place as the […]

World’s largest uranium deposit could light up Paris

MCCLEAN LAKE, Canada, July 24, 2007 (AFP) – Hidden in Canada’s northern Boreal Forest, amongst hundreds of wild rivers and lakes, the McClean Lake uranium mine produces enough ore to light up Paris. Day and night, massive trucks and mechanical shovels shake the earth and move some 5,000 tonnes of rock each 11-hour shift that […]

Canada: Energy pussycat

Stephen Harper likes to describe Canada as an “energy superpower.” It’s a catchy claim, but a ridiculous one. Surely an “energy superpower” would be a country that, at the very least, is assertive in taking care of its own energy needs.Not Canada. Indeed, Canada has been almost negligent in this regard, having surrendered an astonishing […]

Nigeria: Rich in Oil, Dependent On Firewood

It is a paradox of note: the fact that while Nigerians live in the world’s sixth-largest oil producer, most of them still rely on wood for their fuel. Of the country’s population of over 140 million, about 70 percent live in rural areas and are directly or indirectly dependent on forest resources — especially wood […]

Plug-In Hybrids Get Green Grades

Plug-in hybrids, which use electricity from the grid to replace gasoline for daily driving, would cut gas consumption and save commuters from high fuel prices. But some experts have been concerned that switching from gas to electricity, much of which is generated from fossil fuels, would actually significantly increase pollution in some parts of the […]

U.K. Retailer to Sell Wooden PC

A supposedly zero carbon PC is being developed by U.K. retailer PC World, featuring wood casing for keyboard, screen and mouse. Use of recycled materials and low electricity needs will reduce its carbon footprint to 85 percent of a standard PC. Reminiscent of a wood-framed Morris Traveller estate the ‘carbon buster’ as it known is […]

Cheney Suppressed Evidence in California Energy Crisis

In-depth investigation shows how Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal energy regulators to conceal evidence of widespread market manipulation by energy companies during the California electricity crisis in 2001. This story is based on a two-month investigation into Cheney’s energy task force; how the vice president pressured cabinet officials to conceal clear-cut evidence of market […]

Investors cause solar to soar as ethanol eases

Investors’ appetites for new alternative-energy companies remain robust, but tastes have shifted: While ethanol-makers seem to have exhausted their favor, Chinese solar-cell makers continue to pull in fresh capital. IPOs in the solar sector have been dominated by China. Four Chinese solar-power companies have had their debut in 2007, garnering $1.11 billion, after three solar […]

Forget the Ethanol Myth — Avoid Biofuel Bubble

An old Midwestern maxim deems a corn crop healthy if it’s “knee-high by the fourth of July.” Yet when it comes to the expectations that corn-based ethanol will cure America’s dependence on foreign oil, the hype is way over everyone’s head.Say you were able to cultivate every acre of Illinois for corn-based ethanol. This is […]

Royal Dutch Shell and the struggle for Iraqi oil

Despite growing popular opposition, the Dutch government coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDA), Social Democrats (PvdA) and Christian Union (CU), under Christian Democratic Prime Minister Jan Pieter Balkenende, continues to provide military support to US imperialism in the Middle East and Central Asia. One of the greatest beneficiaries of this support for American militarism is […]

Labor Disputes, Oil Drill Shortage: Problems for Venezuela’s Oil Industry

Industrial unrest, technical challenges and corruption claims have recently plagued Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, (PDVSA). On July 18, Luis Vierma, the exploration and production vice president PDVSA, the state oil company, told Venezuela’s National Assembly’s comptroller committee, that PDVSA is in a state of “significant operational emergency.” PDVSA accounts for about half […]

Energy boom drives growth that strains Western Slope

The populations of communities in western Colorado have grown by as much as 66 percent since 2000, putting stress on local infrastructures. The Daily Sentinel said recent U.S. Census Bureau data showed that New Castle in Garfield County, a hotbed of energy development, led the region in growth. New Castle grew from 1,984 in 2000 […]

Iraq unions vow ‘mutiny’ over oil law

Iraq’s unions say that the draft oil law is a threat and threaten “mutiny” if parliament approves the bill. “This law cancels the great achievements of the Iraq people,” Subhi Al Badri, head of the Iraqi Federation of Union Councils, told the Al Sharqiyah TV station. He referred specifically to laws that nationalized Iraq’s oil […]

Rex Tillerson interview

In an exclusive interview with the Times Record News, ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Red Tillerson provided his views on oil and energy issues facing the United States. On $3 gasoline “You have $3 a gallon gasoline, which a lot of people don’t like. I don’t like it. Believe it or not, I don’t like it […]

China: More oil reserve bases to be built

China plans to build four levels of crude oil reserves made up of two parts – the government reserve and enterprise storage – according to a source with the nation’s largest oil company. “The government reserve will be at two levels, a strategic crude oil reserve base by the central government, and an oil reserve […]

China’s power sector grows greener

BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) — China’s power sector reported reduction in coal consumed to generate per kilowatt hour and sulfur dioxide emission on the whole, according to the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC). The coal used to generate per kwh dropped by nine grams to 332 grams in the first five month this year from […]

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