Mountaintop Coal Mines Face New Scrutiny Under Obama

(Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama is starting to dismantle Bush-era environmental rules that have let mining companies like Massey Energy Co. dig coal more cheaply by removing mountain tops and dumping the debris in nearby streams. Government agencies are reviewing regulations by former President George W. Bush to ensure they haven Shearing the peaks off […]

Endless oil

Russian research has shown that the Earth doesn Except in Russia and Ukraine. What is to us a matter of scientific certainty is by no means accepted there. Many Russians and Ukrainians

Crude Reality

…I Interestingly, the U.S. government chose not to publicly disclose that they were involved in crude oil swaps

Low Crop Costs To Boost Ethanol Producers

With huge harvests expected, meat and ethanol producers should get a break on input costs. Flush harvest estimates from the United States Department of Agriculture were slightly higher than expected, weighing on crop prices Friday. However, analysts suspect increased ethanol production and frost fears could keep prices from falling too far. Favorable late-summer weather throughout […]

Oil Pushes Up Manufacturers' Costs

LONDON (Reuters) – Manufacturers’ raw material costs rose at their fastest monthly rate in more than a year in August, driven up by oil costs and resulting in the smallest year-on-year rate of decline since April. But faced with ongoing recession, manufacturers were slower to pass on August’s 2.2 percent monthly rise in input costs […]

GM rolls past 1 million miles in fuel cell demo

The only emissions for Chevrolet Equinox are wisps of water vapor BUFFALO, N.Y. – General Motors Co. is now 1 million miles into its fuel cell experiment and company officials say having everyday people drive a test fleet of pollution-free cars has convinced them they are on the right track. The automaker on Friday said […]

Ships cross Arctic passage in milestone

Scientists say global warming opens ice-choked passages FRANKFURT – Two German ships became the first commercial vessels to traverse the Arctic’s Northeast Passage, their owner reported Friday, having arrived in Siberia from South Korea by traveling around Russia’s northern coast line. The merchant ships MV Beluga Fraternity and MV Beluga Foresight made it “through the […]

Water investment outlook still murky

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – When it comes to water, it is pretty clear to investors that a growing global shortage will bring in new business opportunities. But while venture capitalists and private equity investors told the Reuters’ Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit that water could potentially be a very big deal, they are not […]

China, U.S. to dominate solar market

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The United States and China are in a head-to-head race to become the world’s top market for solar power, and panel makers are wasting no time making plans to cash in on the growth promise of both markets despite the global recession. At the Reuters Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit […]

Warming turns global poor's staple into poison

SYDNEY: Cassava – the staple of 750 million impoverished people in Africa, Asia and Latin America – is turning more toxic with much smaller yields, thanks to global warming and carbon levels. Monash University researcher Ros Gleadow and her team tested cassava and sorghum under a series of climate change scenarios to study the effect […]

Economy takes over as OPEC's oil market fundamental

VIENNA (Reuters) – OPEC’s around midnight deal to keep output steady marked the third time this year it has opted for no policy change, citing first economic weakness and now economic recovery as a reason to ignore bulging oil stocks. But the bottom line was the producer club’s confidence the return of investor appetite for […]

Obama Administration: US Has Overinvested In Oil, Gas

The Obama administration opened a new front in its effort to impose $31.5 billion in taxes on oil and gas companies, saying that the nation puts too much emphasis on oil and gas at the expense of other industries. The chief economist in the Obama administration’s Treasury Department testified before a Senate panel that current […]

The Biggest Threat to the U.S. Oil Supply

It’s our struggling neighbor to the south. For a few years now, we energy-focused Fools have been casting a concerned eye at Mexico, and more specifically Cantarell, the cornerstone of Mexican oil production. My colleague David Lee Smith detailed the matter of Cantarell’s dangerous decline curve in a seminal piece back in 2007. At that […]

Russia tells OPEC: We never promised you anything

Russia will make no apologies to OPEC for boosting oil CL-FT production to record monthly highs and can invest in new fields while crude trades at current levels around $70 (U.S.) per barrel, the country’s energy minister said. Sergei Shmatko told reporters the world’s No. 2 oil exporter would apply zero export duties for East […]

Import prices spike as oil rises

Total import prices jump 2% in August, but excluding petroleum the increase was a softer 0.4%. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. import prices spiked 2% in August as the cost of oil rose, the Labor Department said on Friday. The increase, twice what analysts polled by Reuters had expected, was the fifth rise in the last […]

Dramatic biological responses to global warming in the Arctic

“The Arctic as we know it may soon be a thing of the past,” says Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University. Post leads a large, international team that carried out ecosystem-wide studies of the biological response to Arctic warming during the fourth International Polar Year, which ended in 2008. The team’s […]

Darpa Seeks to Tap Water

The quest for limitless energy has preoccupied military researchers for years, and Darpa, the Pentagon Sounds good, right? Except Darpa

Now I think I know why Mexico Just Legalized Drugs – Peak Oil

…This makes the following make a lot more sense to me now… “MEXICO CITY …I’m not saying it’s necessarily directly related (as there isn’t hard evidence of this) but it sure makes a lot of sense to me that a desperate mexico A) tries to replace rapdily falling oil revenue (potential future taxes on drug […]

Top wheat experts call for scaling up efforts to combat Ug99, other wheat rusts

ALEPPO, SYRIA …Dr Solh said these highly mobile, wind-borne, transboundary wheat diseases have the potential to endanger global production of a crop that feeds 2 billion people. EurekAlert

Regenerative Agriculture: The Transition.

In the face of peak oil and in order to curb carbon emissions, methods of farming that depend less on oil and natural gas, respectively to run machinery and to make synthetic fertilizers, must be sought. Such options are to be found within the framework of regenerative agriculture, but the transition from current industrialised agriculture […]

Total CEO Expects Higher Crude Prices, Supply Squeeze in 2014

(Bloomberg) — Total SA Chief Executive Officer Christophe de Margerie said oil will probably rise to more than $145 a barrel on concern supplies may fall short as soon as 2014. Crude futures peaked at $147.27 a barrel in New York in July 2008 and tumbled almost 70 percent in the second half of the […]

Critical for Africa to be part of the biofuels revolution

Africa’s low productivity of existing farming systems, combined with the large stretches of suitable crop- land, is making it the area with the world’s highest energy crop-production potential for the burgeoning global biofuels market and it is critical to the continent’s future to be part of this revolution, says the South African Biofuels Association (Saba). […]

How Wishful Thinkers Are Forced To Reconnect With Energy Reality

One day Energy Secretary Ed Milliband sets out his proposed expansion of the U.K.’s wind power-led alternative energy revolution; the next day, Vestas, the U.K.’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, shuts down a big part of its British operations citing “low demand” and public opposition to onshore wind farms. Just bad luck or bad PR? Not […]

Study: Wind could cut China's emissions by 30 pct

China could cut its emissions by 30 percent in the next two decades if it switches to wind power to meet about half of its electricity demands, a U.S. study published Thursday said. China’s energy needs are expected to double by 2030, but the study in the journal Science says that the country could reasonably […]

Uranium Will Have 2010 Surplus on Increased Output, Group Says

The uranium market will have a surplus next year for the first time in at least three years as Kazatomprom and other producers increase output faster than demand rises for the nuclear fuel, the World Nuclear Association said. Supplies will exceed consumption by 2,914 metric tons, compared with deficits of 2,029 tons in 2009 and […]

Norway Aug oil output falls to 1.91 mln bpd

Norway’s oil production fell to a preliminary 1.91 million barrels per day on average in August from 2.07 million in July, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said on Friday. Production of natural gas liquids (NGL) and condensate rose to a preliminary 350,000 barrels per day in August from 283,000 in July, the directorate said in a […]

Electrical thinking

The energy of the future appears to be electricity. In the auto industry, an enormous consumer of power, companies are gravitating to electricity. Unlike hydrogen, the distribution system is already in place. Most residents have plugs on the side of their homes. Auto companies have seen the future — with its spectre of peak oil […]

Fossil fuel: Now without the fossils

More bad news for the Peak Oil doomsday cult. Russian boffins say they have proved that fossil fuels can be created synthetically by replicating the high pressure, high temperature conditions found in the upper parts of the Earth’s crust. The scientists, at the Lomonosov Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology and the Royal Insitutue […]

Essent Sees 1 Million Dutch Electric Cars By 2020

Dutch utility Essent expects to see one million electric vehicles on the roads in the Netherlands by 2020, its head of new energy said on Thursday. Alexandra van Huffelen said Essent was working with other Dutch companies to stimulate the industry, lobbying the government to speed up the introduction of electric cars and launching demonstration […]

UK 'could face blackouts by 2016'

The government’s new energy adviser says the UK could face blackouts by 2016 because green energy is not coming on stream fast enough. Ministers have previously denied that the UK is heading for an energy gap. But David MacKay, who takes up his post at the Department of Energy on 1 October, says that the […]

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