Alarm over new oil-from-coal plans

A Chinese energy company is poised to open a chemical plant to make liquid fuels for cars and aircraft from coal, a move that has alarmed environmental campaigners who say it will increase carbon emissions and worsen global warming. The plant, in Inner Mongolia, will use technology developed by Germany during the second world war […]

Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold

BOSTON, MA–If carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue on a “business-as-usual” trajectory, humans will have added about 5 trillion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere by the year 2400. A similarly massive release of carbon accompanied an extreme period of global warming 55 million years ago known as the Paleocene-Eocene […]

Gazprom to Develop Addtl 3 Blocks of World’s Largest Gas Field

Gazprom is poised to begin development of possibly three blocks of Iran’s South Pars, the world’s largest gas condensate deposit, according to a news release issued by Gazprom. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller visited Tehran to meet with Iran Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari on Feb. 19 to discuss contract terms. Gazprom’s Agreement with Iran includes […]

Impacts of fossil fuels on fish and people

Scientist John Incardona will tell a scientific detective story that uncovers a previously unrecognized threat to human health from a ubiquitous class of air pollutants. Incardona Certain PAHs were recognized as carcinogenic more than a century ago, but a class of PAHs with a different structure was ruled out as a carcinogen and was largely […]

Will North Atlantic threshold response to ocean changes be enough?

Predictions that the 21st century is safe from major circulation changes in the North Atlantic Ocean may not be as comforting as they seem, according to a Penn State researcher. “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that it is very unlikely that the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) will collapse in the 21st […]

Nitrous oxide: definitely no laughing matter

Farmers, food suppliers, policy-makers, business leaders and environmentalists are joining forces to confront the threat of the Agriculture accounts for around 70 per cent of N2O emissions. The sources are mainly from soil micro-organisms that make N2O from nitrogen-rich fertilisers added to soils to maximise crop yields. Other significant biological sources of N2O come from […]

Slouching Towards Petroeurostan

It was a discreet, almost hush hush affair, but after almost three years of stalling and endless delays, it finally happened. Now more than ever, it may also signal a true geoeconomic earthquake The bourse

Future Oil Wars Made Fun

Oil Wars Overtake the World in Video Game That Jumps Off Current Concerns …To devise the game’s geopolitical context, he said, developers “read everything we could get our hands on.” That included the books “The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies,” by Richard Heinberg, and “Resource Wars: The New Landscape of […]

Nigeria oil rebels seek proof leader is alive

A rebel group from Nigeria Uncertainty over Okah

BA raises longhaul fuel surcharges 10% to

British Airways (BA) has raised fuel surcharges on its longhaul flights for the eleventh time in less than four years, as it continued to blame high oil prices for the increase to passengers’ ticket prices. Flyers will now have to pay an extra Travellers on flights lasting nine hours or more will pay

Making solar cells sustainable

Researchers from eight universities across the UK have embarked on the country’s largest ever research project into photovoltaics. Led by Durham University, the The consortium will focus its attention on inorganic materials and will look at ways of improving efficiency in current technologies as well as using new materials.For large-scale photovoltaics manufacture, materials costs dominate […]

Putin Stresses Energy in Algeria Talks

President Vladimir Putin and his Algerian counterpart, Abdelaziz Boutelfika, pledged greater cooperation on energy and railroads at a Kremlin meeting Tuesday, but kept mum about the fate of a controversial arms deal to supply Algeria with MiG fighter jets. Against a background of continued speculation about the creation of an OPEC-style gas cartel, the leaders […]

Renewable Energy: Desert Dreams

If you want to see the future of sustainable design, drive southwest from Abu Dhabi’s international airport, stop when you come to the desert — and use your imagination. You’re standing in what will be Masdar City: a radically innovative development powered entirely by renewable energy. Created by the British architect Norman Foster, the new […]

Australia: That plasma is about to get an energy rating

All home appliances will soon have to conform to a strict new 10-star energy efficiency rating system, the federal Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett, said yesterday. Power-hungry plasma televisions and computers will have to carry new labels so customers can compare efficiency claims, and national three-yearly reviews of household energy use will be undertaken.The […]

Alternative energy: China taking the wind out of India’s sails

India clearly had a head-start over China in the wind energy sector. But given the pace at which things are moving in the two countries, it is just a matter of time before China overtakes India in the total installed capacity and net annual additions. Comparisons, though inevitable, are odious. Especially if India and China […]

China triples fuel oil consumption tax from Jan

China is charging the full rate of consumption tax for fuel oil that is backdated to Jan. 1 by tripling an earlier levy, a move traders say could squeeze oil products supply from refiners that use the residue fuel as feedstock. The increases, announced just about a week ago and which traders expected would be […]

Bad Biofuel Policy Boosts Asian Inflation

The US decision to divert food crops for motor-fuel is proving a costly mistake – especially for Asia What has long been predicted – that the US decision to push the use of corn to make biofuel would be a costly mistake – is starting to come true, especially for Asia, where inflation is spiking […]

How about a car that runs on air?

A car that runs on air and releases no pollutants into the atmosphere at low speeds could be on sale in India as soon as this year. The three-seat fibreglass OneCAT weighs only 350kg (770lb) and is expected to be priced at about Refuelling involves topping up on compressed air, which is used to power […]

Revinventing the Way We Live: Interview with Ray McCormack

It’s one thing to eat poorly or smoke cigarettes and know that somewhere down the line, you may pay for your individual behavior with poor health. But it’s quite another thing to participate in the destruction of a planet. The documentary, A Crude Awakening, presents the theory of “peak oil,” namely, that because all crude […]

Winning the Oil Endgame

“Whalers ran out of customers before they ran out of whales.” So reads the beginning slide in Amory Lovins’ hour-long “Winning the Oil Endgame” presentation at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. That aphorism embodies the underlying premise of Lovins’ vision of a more […]

Has oil production peaked?

Oil is not everybody At the same event, the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (Aspo) in Cork, the former US Energy Secretary Dr James Schlesinger said oil industry executives now privately concede that the world faces an imminent oil production peak

Paul Krugman: Feeling a bit peaked

Peak oil, that is Oil prices are set to crash from this week

EIA Reiterates Need For OPEC To Increase Output

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The head of the Energy Information Administration on Tuesday reiterated calls for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to increase crude production to boost the world’s small capacity cushion as oil prices neared breaking a record high. EIA Administrator Guy Caruso told Dow Jones Newswires that by increasing output, OPEC would help […]

Oil jumps above $100 on refinery outage

NEW YORK – Oil futures shot to a new record above $100 Tuesday for the first time since Jan. 3 as investors bet that crude prices will keep climbing despite evidence of plentiful supplies and falling demand. At the pump, gas prices rose further above $3 a gallon. There was no single driver behind oil’s […]

Venezuela asks ExxonMobil to talk, drop legal cases

CARACAS, Feb 19, 2008 (AFP) – Venezuela has asked US oil giant ExxonMobil to resume World Bank-sponsored talks to resolve a nationalization dispute and to drop legal cases in New York and London, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said Tuesday. “We have heard various messages from Exxon — what we are asking is that we return […]

Nigerian oil delta rebels say leader shot dead

LAGOS (Reuters) – A Nigerian rebel group from the oil producing Niger Delta said on Tuesday its leader, Henry Okah, was shot dead in detention in northern Nigeria. There was no immediate official confirmation. If confirmed, news of Okah’s death could spark a new round of violence in the delta, home of Africa’s biggest oil […]

Alon refinery shut by blast; gasoline at historic high

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Alon USA Energy Inc. said Tuesday that an explosion and fire temporarily shut production at its Texas refinery, 290 miles west of Dallas. The accident drove gasoline prices to an historic high Tuesday. Crude futures also rallied. … Based on a preliminary assessment, Alon is aimed to resume partial operations in […]

‘Squeezed in’ subway ad angers passengers

BEIJING (Reuters) – An advertisement on Beijing’s subway proclaiming “Squeezed in?! Go and buy a car then!” has angered passengers who said it only encourages traffic jams, a state newspaper said Friday. The advertisement, written in large white letters on a red background, is also contrary to the Beijing city government’s aim of getting more […]

Redefining Urban and Rural: Cooperation in a Time of Local Need

…A landscape of blended urban and rural uses is only one of the forces pushing for cooperation. High energy prices and global warming will make it necessary for us to develop a strong, resilient, local economy – parallel, and in addition to, the global one. James Kunstler, writing in Rolling Stone, April 13, 2005 calls […]

Russia, Algeria talk energy, mum on gas OPEC

MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Energy was high on the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Algerian leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday, but both men avoided mentioning the sensitive issue of an OPEC-style gas cartel. “Algeria is the world’s fourth gas exporter, Russia is also a major exporter,” Putin told Bouteflika after a […]

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