Betting big – and small – on electric cars

Nissan, GM and Ford are wagering in the high-stakes game of electric driving, but it’s too soon to tell whose hand will be a winner. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The cars of the future will run on electricity, most major automakers agree on that. What they don’t agree on is how soon drivers will be […]

Professor says he was threatened with firing over hydraulic fracturing comments

Dr. Geoffrey Thyne is no Ward Churchill. He U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is co-sponsoring legislation that would remove a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption for the process, also known as

Top companies: Most profitable

Oil firms are the biggest money makers. 1 Exxon Mobil 2 Gazprom 3 Royal Dutch Shell 4 Chevron 5 BP 6 Petrobras Fortune

How to finance new non-carbon, alternative nuclear energy

This is simply a wish-list of how I’d like to see new non-carbon producing nuclear energy develop. None of this really involves new taxes and is different from the Production Tax Credit subsidy that wind and solar (and some fossil) gets today. My current favorite is the National Nuclear Development Bank. This would be a […]

The solution to global warming is known, proven and not at all new

As Roger Pielke Jr. noted in a speech I covered recently (see here, here, here and here), there are only four ‘levers’ we can pull to help our energy situation and reduce emissions of CO2. We can lower population or accept a lower rate of economic growth. Neither of those two will ever be accepted […]

Viewpoint Why There Should Be More Oil Speculation, Not Less

We need more Currently, with virtually no regulation, the oil-futures market

IEA Says Recession May Not Affect Spending on Renewable Energy

(Bloomberg) — The global financial crisis may not affect investment in renewable energy projects this year as countries strive to cut emissions of pollutants and reach a new climate-change agreement, the International Energy Agency said. The IEA is preparing a report to assess the impact of the global recession and the credit crunch on spending […]

Media Tend To Doomsay When Addressing Environmental Issues

This study, undertaken by researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UBC), analyses the role played by the media in creating and spreading a stance regarding the protection of the environment, sustainable development and natural heritage …The extensive analysis of the dialectics included an evaluation of the so-called news agendas, as well as framing […]

The new normal could be a lot more frugal

…But many who are saving are doing it less because they have to than because they feel that it’s the right thing to do. As an example, it’s entirely possible that the automobile culture, which once dominated us, will never return and that people will be comfortable with smaller cars and rented cars and, most […]

Robot land-steamers to consume all life on Earth as fuel

News has emerged of a milestone reached on the road towards a potentially world-changing piece of technology. We speak, of course, of US military plans to introduce roving steam-powered robots which would fuel themselves by harvesting everything alive and cramming it into their insatiable blazing furnaces. The scheme is officially referred to as Energetically Autonomous […]

Obama uses G8 debut to issue warning to Iran

L’AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned Iran on Friday the world will not wait indefinitely for it to end its nuclear defiance, saying Tehran had until September to comply or else face consequences. He said he hoped Iran would enter negotiations on the issue and that leaders would review the situation again […]

Is It Time to Buy Oil?

Those bullish on oil point to the inevitability of “peak oil,” arguing that the time will come when we hit the peak of global oil production. From that point on, we’ll be able to pump less and less oil out of the ground. In economic terms, we’ll face decreasing supply. Meanwhile, bulls argue that demand […]

Storing Nuclear Waste Above Ground May Be Most Viable Solution

(Bloomberg) — Storing nuclear waste above ground at atomic power plants for as long as six decades may be the best temporary solution in the U.S. for the dangerous refuse, university researchers say. Leaving spent fuel on the site after the stations close may be the most viable and Radioactive waste, which is dangerous for […]

Will Oil Help Or Hinder the Recovery?

With oil prices on an unprecedented roller-coaster ride over the last year, our senior reporter Matt Philips caught up with energy guru Dan Yergin, to talk about what effect petro-prices will have on the recovery. See Matt’s piece below: July 11 marks the one-year anniversary of oil peaking at $147 a barrel. That same month […]

IEA sees global oil demand bouncing back in 2010

LONDON (Reuters) It forecast world oil consumption next year would reach 85.2 million barrels per day (bpd), up from 83.8 million this year. The demand outlook for this year was “effectively unchanged” — down 2.9 percent, or 2.5 million bpd compared with last year. David Fyfe, head of the IEA’s oil industry and market division, […]

A war of colonial conquest in Afghanistan

The dropping of the original pretext for the invasion poses the question: with what purported legal justification has the US government and its allies continued and escalated the war? The truth is they have none. Nothing remains but the reality of an imperialist war of plunder and domination. The US-led occupation of Afghanistan and the […]

Russia Majors Profit Even as Oil Price Falls

After reaching double-digit growth figures in the beginning of the decade, Russia’s oil output fell last year for the first time since 1999. With oil fields in Western Siberia — the country’s main production area — maturing rapidly, Russia’s biggest oil companies OAO Rosneft, Lukoil, TNK-BP Ltd., Surgutneftegaz and OAO Gazprom Neft must invest heavily […]

North Sea Oil: Norway's Pumping, Britain's Lagging

When it comes to oil exploration, big is beautiful. Big and government-owned is even better. That seems to be the main takeaway from the latest drilling statistics for the North Sea. In the UK part, drilling was down nearly 60% in the second quarter. In the Norwegian sector, it was up 50%.All this matters because […]

Shell says U.S. oil refiners need more CO2 permits

Major oil company Royal Dutch Shell urged the U.S. Senate on Wednesday to give oil refiners a bigger share of free pollution permits under a cap-and-trade plan to fight global warming than the House of Representatives provided in its climate change legislation. U.S. oil refineries received only 2 percent of the allowances, or pollution permits, […]

Indonesia says seeking to revive Iraq oil projects

Indonesia’s state oil firm Pertamina said on Thursday it was planning to revive oil projects it was involved in Iraq that were put on ice because of the security situation in the country. Iraq and Pertamina signed an oil exploration agreement in block 3 in Iraq’s Western desert in 2002, but the U.S.-led invasion of […]

Swiss banks to help finance cutting of rainforests for palm oil, say NGOs

Swiss banks, Credit Suisse and UBS, together with the French BNP Paribas, are helping Singapore-listed Golden Agri-Resources raise up to 280 million Swiss francs ($258 million) to finance conversion of large areas of rainforest in New Guinea and Borneo for oil palm plantations, reports the Bruno Manser Fund (BMF), a group that campaigns on behalf […]

South Africa: Township Businesses Battle Electricity Price Hikes

Township businesses say recent electricity price hikes will dent their profits because struggling customers may be unwilling to carry the burden if they increase prices. While none of the businesses interviewed have increased prices after Eskom rates increased by an average of 31.3% at the beginning of July, all of those interviewed say they will […]

South Africa: Dwindling Gas Supplies a Challenge for PetroSA

With natural gas reserves insufficient to keep its gas-to-liquids refinery running beyond next year, national oil and gas company PetroSA is looking out for more gas. PetroSA must secure additional gas for its Mossel Bay refinery amid falling indigenous gas production. According to the company, its offshore gas reserves will reach the end of their […]

Alastair Parvin: University of Sheffield

Alastair Parvin’s re-imagines a section of the M1 as a self-sufficient farming system. Although to most of us they are invisible, we are all dependent on a few highly-complex, energy-intensive systems which ensure the continuous supply of food to cities. The increasing concentration of those systems and the first effects of global peak oil production […]

New Zealand: Sustenance & sustainability

Community gardens and edible plantings are definitely de rigeur. Sarah Foy talked to two Taranaki groups – one new, one a year old – about getting their hands dirty for the sake of neighbourhood relations. …An hour south, an Opunake community garden was kickstarted by members of the town’s Sustainability Group. The 20-strong group came […]

Book Review – A Presidential Energy Policy

Peak Oil has been a topic of interest since the infamous M. King Hubbert predicted when both the U.S and the world would see peak oil. Yet, there are still millions of people in denial, says Michael C. Ruppert and these people need to “get angry” so they can move to the step of acceptance […]

10 Wind Turbines That Push the Limits of Design

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released their 20% Wind Report Card on July 8, following up on a study in which the Department of Energy proposed a goal where 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from wind energy by 2030. The AWEA gave the overall U.S. push for wind power a Popular Mechanics

Power struggle

The battle to create America The two firms are bombarding one another in barbed letters and spiky press conferences. David Crane, NRG

World powers accept warming limit

Developed and developing nations have agreed that global temperatures should not rise more than 2C above 1900 levels, a G8 summit declaration says. That is the level above which, the UN says, the Earth’s climate system would become dangerously unstable. US President Barack Obama said the countries had made important strides in dealing with climate […]

Pay More, Drive Less, Save the Planet

To fight climate change, Washington wants you to take a bus. What is the appropriate response to Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, who as General Motors prepared to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection declared that he wants to “coerce people out of their cars”? One might be inclined to dismiss these words as overkill […]

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