Wham! So Much for Energy Liberalization

Ah, the 1980s. It was a time when our phones had to be plugged into the walls. It was an era of bad music, big hair and a shrinking role for government in energy markets. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan introduced the free market to the energy market and they ran off in a (mostly) […]

Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. security

The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say. Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions, say the […]

Bill McKibben: Beyond Radical

What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation I REMEMBER, LONG AGO as a college reporter, interviewing the Libertarian candidate for president in a Boston hotel room. He held forth at great length on the Libertarian platform, which could basically be boiled down to He paused, looked at me, and said,

A more positive Pacific solution

That sinking feeling is very strong inside the palm-fringed shorelines of the Pacific islands, where about 4 million people are clustered. As well as rising sea levels, their slow-growing economies face being swamped by a projected doubling of populations in coming decades. The biggest country, Papua New Guinea, sees salvation in a $16 billion Exxon-Mobil […]

Consumerism is 'eating the future'

We’re a gloomy lot, with many of us insisting that there’s nothing we can do personally about global warming, or that the human race is over-running the planet like a plague. But according to leading ecologists speaking this week in Albuquerque at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, few of us realise […]

Coal Group Is Linked to Fake Letters on Climate Bill

A trade group representing coal producers and power companies says that it indirectly hired a lobbying firm that sent fake letters to lawmakers purporting to be from nonprofit groups opposed to climate-change legislation. The group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, said in statement Monday that it was considering legal action against the lobbying […]

Bold Soil-Mapping Venture Seen as Crucial to Efforts on Climate, Agriculture

Long left in the dust by their peers in climate research, a small group of soil scientists is spearheading an effort to apply rigorous computer analysis to the ground beneath our feet. Their goal: to produce a digital soil map of the entire world. It is a daunting task. In many parts of the world, […]

Thomas Homer-Dixon: The enticements of green carrots

Nudging people with environmental incentives may work better than imposing costs and penalties We Canadians like to think we are green, but when it comes to protecting the environment, we are among the world’s worst actors. Whether the metric is carbon output per capita, toxic waste emissions or protection of endangered species, Canada regularly ranks […]

Dmitry Orlov: Guns and Butter – "The Collapse Gap"

“The Collapse Gap” with Dmitry Orlov, author of “Reinventing Collapse – The Soviet Example and American Prospects”. Dmitry Orlov’s repeated travels to Russia throughout the early nineties allowed him to observe the aftermath of the Soviet collapse first-hand. Being both a Russian and an American, Dmitry was able to appreciate both the differences and the […]

Electric roadster maker making money

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Tesla Motors turned profitable for the first time in July, when the electric car manufacturer shipped a record 109 vehicles, the company said Friday. A surge in sales and reduced manufacturing costs of Tesla’s Roadster 2 sports car helped boost the company to $1 million in earnings and $20 million in […]

Canada: Military plans anti-sub exercises in Arctic

Just a month after two nuclear-powered Russian subs cracked through sea ice near the North Pole to test-fire two long-range missiles, the Canadian military will conduct “anti-submarine warfare” exercises during its annual Arctic sovereignty operation, which began this week near Baffin Island. The massive training mission, involving some 700 personnel from the Canadian Forces and […]

Chavez turns up heat on Colombia

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced trade measures against Colombia, amid a growing diplomatic row between the two nations. Chavez said he would halt the import of 10,000 cars from Colombia and ban a Colombian energy firm from exploring Venezuela’s oil-rich Orinoco region.Last week, Chavez recalled his envoy from Bogota over accusations Venezuela had provided […]

Africa: New Push for Firms to Invest in Renewable Energy to Make Firms

African firms exporting to the United States should consider investing in renewable energy to make their production more efficient and merchandise more competitive. Under a US trade deal, African nations are allowed to export 6,400 items duty and quota-free to the United States but have failed to sell much to the superpower and lost out […]

Experts say electric cars are on the way

Automakers, biofuel companies and battery makers are rushing to bring two new technologies to the nation’s auto fleet: plug-in electric hybrids and cellulosic ethanol. At the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars here Friday, automakers and start-up officials said the future is bright for both technologies though they face hurdles to widespread adoption.“The next […]

Ethanol's Future In Doubt

Once touted as a key solution to America’s energy problems, ethanol’s future is very much in doubt. Pending regulation could make it more difficult to profit from ethanol fuel production which already faces many other challenges. To learn more see the following article, summarized by Mark Thoma from Economist’s View. Does corn ethanol have a […]

Barbara Thomae: Uranium Will Rebound with Economy

The Energy Report checked in with Barbara Thomae, Senior Mining Analyst with the MineralFields Group, who says that they believe the economic recovery will spur reinvestment into the uranium sector, especially once uranium prices strengthen in line with other commodities. The Energy Report: There’s a lot of “news” swirling around uranium (i.e. Russia has a […]

OPEC's July oil output rises, survey shows

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) increased crude oil production by 100,000 barrels per day to 28.57 million barrels a day in July, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts. This is an increase from the 28.47 million barrels a day pumped in June, Platts said in […]

UN climate change deal needs more sacrifices by West, John Prescott warns

Vital UN climate change talks in Copenhagen are likely to collapse unless rich nations agree a “social justice deal” built around equalising emissions per head in each country, according to the former deputy prime minister John Prescott. Speaking to the Guardian, Prescott admitted that the formula would require far greater sacrifices by rich nations, especially […]

Driving Out of Germany, to Pollute Another Day

FRANKFURT Up to 50,000 clunkers have whistled past the automotive graveyard in Germany and found new life elsewhere, according to Ronald Schulze, an expert with the Association of Criminal Investigators, a professional group of police sleuths. Experienced thieves, he said in an interview on Friday, discovered

Review: What Will Life Be Like In the US When Gas Costs $20 Per Gallon?

…By now, most of us know the basics of the argument here: Oil production will almost certainly be slowing in coming years because the Not to suggest the subject or Steiner

Is a 4-day workweek inevitable? Utah cuts energy use 13%

Closing Utah state offices on Fridays has resulted in a 13 percent reduction in energy use according to an internal analysis of the nation The state estimates that, collectively, employees will save between $5 million and $6 million annually by not commuting on Fridays and the initiative will cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than […]

Geoengineering schemes under scrutiny

Geoengineering “It’s the most serious technical report to date,” says David Keith of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, who has been researching geoengineering for two decades. Keith was an author on the report, which was led by Steve Koonin, now chief scientist for the US Department of Energy, and Jason Blackstock of the […]

LG U.S. Plant To Support 250,000 Electric Cars

LG Chem Ltd will have the capacity to build battery cells that could support up to 250,000 electric vehicles in the United States when its first U.S. plant becomes fully operational in 2013, the chief of the U.S. unit said on Thursday. Compact Power, the Michigan-based unit of South Korea’s LG Chem, is investing between […]

Full steam ahead for Australian coal gasification project

Plans for Australia’s first commercial coal gasification project have moved forward with an A$40m (US$33.6m) investment from South Korean conglomerate Samsung Corp. The funding completes the A$500m in total equity sought for the coal-to-fertiliser plant in Western Australia state by Perdaman Industries – a Perth-based company headed by Indian industrialist Vikas Rambal, which is also […]

China's Solar Plans Could Stall Without Installers

China is on its way to becoming a solar power – with financial incentives coming from every corner of the country – but a lack of experienced project developers and equipment installers may cast a shadow over the growing industry. The country is already a powerhouse when it comes to solar manufacturing, with several large […]

No friends, only partners in pipeline realpolitik

Vladimir Putin was in Turkey yesterday on a mission that demanded rather subtler skills than white-water rafting or fire-building. Fresh from his photogenic Siberian mini-break, Russia’s prime minister was in Ankara to persuade his hosts to sign up to South Stream, the proposed new gas pipeline from Russia to the European U-nion under the Black […]

China mulls hiking power price before year end -media

China is considering raising power prices before the end of the year under a pricing formula that has not been followed for several years, a weekly newspaper said, citing a source and an energy official. The initial plan is to raise both retail power prices and on-grid prices, with increases in retail charges set to […]

Climate change melting US glaciers at faster rate, study finds

Climate change is melting America’s glaciers at the fastest rate in recorded history, exposing the country to higher risks of drought and rising sea levels, a US government study of glaciers said today. The long-running study of three “benchmark” glaciers in Alaska and Washington state by the US geological survey (USGS) indicated a sharp rise […]

Brazil seeks large share in big oil fields-report

Brazil is considering changes to oil legislation that would secure the government large stakes in the biggest fields in the massive sub-salt oil region off the nation’s coast, Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff told Valor Economico in an interview published on Friday. In 2007 Brazil discovered some 8 billion barrels of crude in the Tupi […]

Peak Oil Driving Crude Prices

With better than expected unemployment numbers today, one would think that the supply and demand spread for crude oil (OIL) would begin to narrow in upcoming months. After all, economic improvement means more demand for oil, right? But while the market celebrates the jobs report this morning, crude oil prices are dropping. Oil traders do […]

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