U.N. Climate Talks End in Cloud of Discord

Industrialized, Developing Nations Still at Odds Over How and When to Cut Emissions PARIS, Aug. 31 — A five-day U.N. conference on climate change ended in Vienna on Friday with significant disagreements remaining about how countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions and daunting estimates about the price tag for combating global warming. Some industrialized countries […]

Canada: Power crazy

Across Canada, provincial governments are aggressively following the call of green power and energy conservation. No watt of electricity is exempt, from mandated fluorescent light bulbs to subsidies for windmill farms to the campaign to rehabilitate the granddaddy of power boondoggles, nuclear energy, out of long-term care. The rationale for this massive release of plans […]

Climate change and N. America farms to be studied

AMES, Iowa, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Iowa State University researchers will join a study of climate change to produce mid-century projections by late next year of the likely regional effects on North American farms from global warming. “There is no question now that the climate is changing on a global scale,” said Gene Takle, an […]

Anthropogenic Climate Change

The main knock against anthropogenic climate change It was a great pleasure to hear the facts from a primary source, and I’m very grateful to Dr. Rapley for talking with me on this and a range of other important topics. Please listen carefully and redistribute widely. Total runtime an hour and fourteen minutes. Electric Politics

OPEC Cuts Have Buoyed Price, But At A Cost

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries crude oil output cuts have succeeded in stabilizing prices, but likely haven’t cut deeply enough into global stockpiles to sanction a production increase at the group’s Sept. 11 meeting. “As I see it at this time, there’s enough crude in the market,” OPEC’s Secretary General Abdalla El-Badri said Tuesday. He […]

Tropical Storm Felix Forms in Caribbean, Heads West

(Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Felix formed near the Caribbean island of Grenada, becoming the sixth named storm of the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season. The system’s maximum sustained winds strengthened to almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) per hour from 35 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory on its Web site at 5 […]

PetroChina, Sinopec cut gasoline exports

BEIJING (Xinhua) — PetroChina and Sinopec, China’s two biggest oil companies, may continue to cut gasoline exports in September following a huge reduction in August, the China Securities Journal reported on Friday. The two oil giants may even halt gasoline exports next month, the newspaper cited an anonymous market source as saying. The two firms […]

UK oil production continues decline

The year-on-year decline in oil and gas production in the UK sector of the North Sea continued in June, dropping by a further combined 12.9 per cent, according to the latest monthly report by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Oil production was down 6.1 percent on the month to 1,263,382 barrels per day and down […]

Fortune at stake as Indian government weighs gas prices

Global oil majors such as Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron Corp are ready to pour billions of dollars into India’s energy sector – but only if the government stops meddling and allows private firms to sell gas at market prices. New Delhi is set to approve a price formula for Reliance Industries Ltd’s […]

OPEC exports ‘to jump to 580,000 bpd’

OPEC oil exports, excluding Angola, will jump 580,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the four weeks to September 15, mostly on Western oil demand, an analyst who estimates future shipments said on Thursday. Roy Mason of consultancy Oil Movements estimated OPEC 11 seaborne exports would rise to 24.21 million bpd, compared with 23.63 million bpd […]

India pins biofuel hope on jatropha, output to rise

India is forecast to produce 2 million tonnes of biodiesel by 2012 as it aggressively plants wild jatropha oilseed to meet growing hunger for energy, a senior industry official said on Thursday. The nation has identified 64 million hectares of wasteland that can be planted with jatropha, a non-edible oilseed which grows even on arid […]

The great global coal rush: the fast track to irreversible disaster

If any credible environmentalist should be speaking the hardened language of priorities, one much-overlooked story surely deserves a lot more attention: what may soon be known as the new coal rush, and developments so at odds with the imperatives of climate change that they suggest a fast track towards irreversible disaster. The ubiquitous reduction of […]

Solar Energy Companies to Meet in Milan

Solar cells supply only a small portion of the world’s energy demands, but scientists and analysts will gather next week in Milan, Italy to talk about the technologies that could encourage more people to turn to the Sun for their power needs.More than 90 percent of solar cells are made with crystalline polysilicon, and producers […]

Russia: EU’s protection of energy sector ‘nearly hysterical’

Russia has reacted with anger at EU plans to prevent foreign companies from uncontrolled access to the European energy sector, warning that any discriminative measure will be legally challenged. “I don’t believe this can be on the agenda”, the Kremlin’s deputy press secretary Dmitri Peskov told the Financial Times, adding “Russia will use any legal […]

Power Blowing In The Wind

For advocates of environmentally friendly energy, it seems like it has taken forever for ordinary consumers to buy into the idea of renewable power sources. As a society, many people believe we’re basically giving the planet a black lung. But it seems that while we know what to do to fix it, we don’t. Why?When […]

Demand Outstrips Supply for Clean Energy Deals

Despite keen interest and deep pockets, demand for clean energy-related investments is so high that cleantech investors around the world are having a hard time spending all the cash they have at their fingertips, according to a report by research group New Energy Finance. The annual report, released Thursday, takes stock of venture capital and […]

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