New Zealand: How long can oil fuel our leisure?

Open up the throttle on a top dragster and you are burning more fuel than a 747 jet. You hit the end of the track in about five seconds, but still, that is a lot of gas. Kiwis love their motorsports. Whether it is with souped-up cars, off-road vehicles, jet-skis, fizz boats, airplanes or motocross […]

Nations take first step to climate deal

BANGKOK (AFP) – More than 160 nations agreed late Friday on the first step to drafting an ambitious new treaty on global warming after hours of haggling between rich and poor countries. The five-day conference in Bangkok also looked for the first time to consider regulating emissions from airplanes and ships, a rapidly growing source […]

Land Once Preserved Now Being Farmed

With crop prices at record highs, an important farmland conservation program is being threatened Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. government, in an attempt to reduce the environmental fallout from large-scale farming, has been paying farmers to set aside less-than-ideal land for conservation. The results have been overwhelmingly positive: Soil erosion has been reduced; chemical and […]

UK: Fuel supplies problem at airport

Flights travelling from Manchester Airport face cancellation following a problem with fuel supplies. Jet fuel from its suppliers at Shell’s Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port has been shut off since Wednesday because it was found to be of a poor standard. The airport can store four million litres of fuel but can use up to […]

Pressure from the Kremlin may push BP to cede control of Russian oil venture

LONDON: Pressure from the Kremlin on BP’s joint venture in Russia, TNK-BP, may before long lead the British oil company to cede control to either Rosneft or Gazprom, the Russian state-owned energy companies. In March, the authorities raided the Moscow offices of BP and TNK-BP, one of the largest oil producers in Russia, which BP […]

Oil reserve site raises ire, Bush policy tested

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Bush administration says it favors “environmentally friendly” energy development, but that policy is under attack in a Mississippi town where residents worry a planned emergency oil reserve may drain a river, destroy wetlands and harm Gulf of Mexico fishing areas. There is fear the Energy Department’s plan to carve out underground […]

Drought-hit Barcelona to import water by boat from France

Boats will from next month bring fresh water from other parts of Spain and neighbouring France to Barcelona to help the city deal with the region’s worst drought in decades, local government officials said Friday. The boats will supply Spain’s second-largest city with enough water to meet Barcelona’s consumption needs for five days — at […]

Researchers extract methane gas from under permafrost

Mackenzie Delta – Researchers working at the Mallik site in the Mackenzie Delta have successfully extracted methane gas from frozen gas hydrates found beneath hundreds of metres of permafrost. Gas hydrates are a potential energy source found in permafrost environments and under the sea floor. They form when water and methane gas come together under […]

In Beijing and the surrounding area, the worst drought in 57 years

Northeastern China is facing its worst drought in 57 years. The areas of Hebei, from which Beijing intends to take water for the Olympics, have also grown parched. Meanwhile, the drought is already affecting about 19.4 million hectares of crops. 6 million of these are in Heilongjiang, 51% of the farmland of the province that […]

Miles to Go

Why automakers don’t sell a car that gets 50mpg. So gas just hit another miserable milestone. Unleaded regular is averaging a record $3.30 a gallon and seems likely to blast past $4 by Memorial Day. Wouldn’t it be great if you could drive a car that gets 50 miles per gallon? Well, you can. Just […]

Paris airport to go green with geothermal energy

Orly Airport, one of the two big airports serving Paris, is to extract geothermal energy from deep underground to slash its heating bills, the facility’s owners said. Two shafts each 1,700 metres (one mile) deep will be drilled on the airport’s perimeter to access a water table warmed by heat emanating from the Earth’s hot […]

Commentary: Boom to bust

Borrowing $2 billion to $3 billion a day from other countries to maintain the world’s highest standard of living, based on conspicuous consumption, in an age of growing world shortages, while fighting two wars whose costs will soon ring up a $1 trillion tab, is tantamount to living on borrowed time. Valium and Tylenol sales […]

In Poland, ‘green’ fields besieged

STRYSZOW, Poland: Depending on your point of view, Szczepan Master is either an incorrigible Luddite or a visionary. A small farmer, proud of his pure, high-quality products, he works his land the way Polish farmers have for centuries. He keeps his livestock in a straw-floored “barn” that is part of his house, entered through a […]

Norway imposes investment ban

Norway’s vast fund for investing its oil wealth is now barred from owning shares in companies that sell arms to Myanmar, expanding limits imposed last year on direct investments in the Southeast Asia nation’s government bonds and 1,200 companies, the finance ministry announced Friday. However, a statement said a preliminary review suggests there are currently […]

Arctic fantasies need reality check

EDMONTON – Geologist Robert Meneley knows all about visions of fabulous Arctic oil and gas treasure. He tried to make the dreams come true for Panarctic Oils, Petro-Canada and industry partners. “It was brutal,” he said in an interview, recalling lessons taught by polar drilling campaigns he led in the 1970s and ’80s. “We never […]

Severe Spanish drought sparks regional fights over water

MADRID (AFP) – The worst drought in decades in Spain is leading to regional disputes over scarce water resources with areas with more reserves resisting transfers to more parched zones. There has been 40 percent less rain than normal across the country since the meteorological year began on October 1, said Angel Rivera, the spokesman […]

Norway looking for oil in Lofoten

Norwegian Minister of oil and energy Aslaug Haga says she is sceptical towards oil exploration in the Lofoten areas outside northern Norway. At the same time, the government continues to support the ongoing seismic studies in the area. In the background lures StatoilHydro and the Norwegian petroleum establishment, which sees the Lofoten area as one […]

OPEC’s Crude Oil Production Fell 0.3% in March, Survey Shows

(Bloomberg) — The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries cut oil production 0.3 percent in March, as Nigerian output dropped to the lowest in almost five years, a Bloomberg News survey showed. OPEC pumped an average 32.35 million barrels a day last month, down 85,000 barrels from February, according to the survey of oil companies, producers […]

Swiss Inflation Accelerated in March as Oil Soared

Swiss inflation accelerated more than expected in March to the fastest pace in more than 14 years as prices for energy and food climbed to records. The inflation rate rose to 2.6 percent from 2.4 percent in February, the Federal Statistics Office in Neuchatel said today. That’s the highest level since October 1993. Economists expected […]

Mexican Gov’t Says Little Time Left to Save Oil Industry

Mexico does not have much time left to save its oil industry and Congress should seek ways to bring experience and new technologies into state-owned oil giant Pemex, Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel said. The energy secretary said in a press conference Wednesday that the government would maintain a dialogue with Congress so the two branches […]

Peak oil

Authors of Transport Revolutions tell Eve Savory they foresee radical social and political changes as the world’s oil supply dwindles If one accepts that climate change could be catastrophic for many ecosystems, including the multiple ones humans inhabit, what could possibly be considered more critical, more demanding of our full attention, right now? The mother […]

Nuclear plants, gas pipelines also in terror plans of airliner plotter

LONDON: A young British Muslim who became a key organizer in a plot to down trans-Atlantic airliners was also developing plans to cripple nuclear power stations, a European gas pipeline and Britain’s electricity grid, a prosecutor told a court Friday. Assad Sarwar, 27, who had key contacts among Islamists in Pakistan, also wanted to destroy […]

Smaller, less-thirsty, cheaper cars enjoy big sales boom

The smallest, cheapest, cars are the biggest, brightest spot in the dreary auto market, reflecting continuing buyer flight to fuel economy and lower prices. Sales of all types of small cars in March were at year-ago levels, Autodata says Within that group, the so-called lower small cars, the smallest and lowest-priced, boomed. Sales were up […]

Fuel crisis hits Bali, Indonesia

JAKARTA, April 4 (Xinhua) — Fuel shortage has been hitting Indonesia’s resort island of Bali over the last few days, causing an unusual view in which many empty-tanked vehicles are left unattended on streets. Motorists have left their cars and motorcycles with empty tanks on streets as many fuel outlets they came by no longer […]

Germany cancels plans to add ethanol to petrol

Berlin – Amid growing fears that biofuel farming is harming the environment and driving up world food prices, Germany cancelled on Friday plans to mix more ethanol made from plants with petrol. Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said the decision was taken because 10 per cent ethanol in petrol would rot the hoses and gaskets of […]

Iceland: Don

Elvis once sang passionately about his blue suede shoes. He didn That is so true. Like Elvis cared for his blue suede shoes more than anything, Icelanders love their cars. They love being able to drive their shiny new SUVs and monster jeeps wherever they need to go (rarely outside city limits), even the shortest […]

UK: Why are we going back to coal?

This Governments antediluvian policy of backing a new coal-fired power station is absurd Fashionable though it is to rail against plastic bags – our own Prime Minister recently penned a Daily Mail assault on this incarnate evil – the climate change battle will not be won by the phoney war on bags, light bulbs and […]

Turner talks of global change, cannibalism

ATLANTA, April 3 (UPI) — Unchecked global warming and an exploding population could result in cannibalism, controversial U.S. former media mogul Ted Turner says. If global warming isn’t stemmed, “we’ll be 8 degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow,” Turner said during PBS’ “Charlie Rose.” “Most of […]

Global temperatures ‘to decrease’

Global temperatures this year will be lower than in 2007 due to the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said. The World Meteorological Organisation’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer. This would mean global temperatures have not […]

British Airways puts bill for T5 chaos last week at

British Airways gave investors fresh cause for worry yesterday after it revealed that it lost BA used the monthly traffic announcement to have yet another dig at the Civil Aviation Authority, which recently proposed significant increases to landing charges at Heathrow. BA said: “The decision demonstrates conclusively that the airport regulation system has failed, to […]

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