Research indicates U.S. solar manufacturing to rise nearly 50% annually

Despite the recent recessionary trends on the manufacturing industries, manufacturing capacity for solar panels will rise at a rate of 45% each year, from 875 megawatts in 2008 to 3,880 megawatts in 2012, according to GTM Research’s report “PV Manufacturing in the United States: Market Outlook, Incentives and Supply Chain Opportunities.” The report claims that […]

Sentance warns of oil price shock

The oil price will stay high for the next decade and could be the cause of the next “big global shock” in the worldwide economy, according to Andrew Sentance, one of nine economists at the Bank of England charged with keeping a lid on inflation. In a speech to energy industry economists in London today […]

Randy Udall – Mission Critical: Can Shale Gas Save the World?

In late August the Vancouver Sun ran an article on the bullish prospects for Canadian shale gas. The piece began this way: Are we all of a sudden

Bjorn Lomborg: Global warming

COPENHAGEN — Global warming will mean that more people die from the heat. There will be a rise in sea levels, more malaria, starvation and poverty. Concern has been great, but humanity has done very little that will actually prevent these outcomes. Carbon emissions have kept increasing, despite repeated promises of cuts. We all have […]

World's River Deltas Sinking Due To Human Activity, Says New Study

ScienceDaily The study concluded that 24 out of the world’s 33 major deltas are sinking and that 85 percent experienced severe flooding in recent years, resulting in the temporary submergence of roughly 100,000 square miles of land. About 500 million people in the world live on river deltas. Published in the Sept. 20 issue of […]

Oil Options Hit Highs as Verleger Predicts 44% Plunge

(Bloomberg) — Oil traders are paying more than ever in the options market to protect against a plunge in crude prices. The gap between prices of options betting on a decline and those that would profit from a rise in oil widened to a record 10 percentage points, according to five years of data compiled […]

Russian oil exports called unsustainable

Russia can’t sustain the rise in oil exports that saw it surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s top exporter for the first time in the post-Soviet period, according to OAO Rosneft, the country’s biggest oil producer.The trend of increasing oil exports isn’t sustainable as the domestic market becomes more attractive for Russian oil producers and […]

For car makers, it's suddenly all about electric

A visitor to the Frankfurt Auto Show, the biggest event of its kind, might think all is well in the car world. Outside the vast exhibition halls, auto makers may be firing tens of thousands of workers and losing billions. But inside, the cars gleam like polished gemstones, exhibitors swill champagne and executives and engineers […]

Guerilla gardening better choice

The use of subversive tactics to change notions of land ownership may not seem like something that would have a reason to catch on in this country. Why would anyone care when any kind of food imaginable can be obtained in one trip to the grocery store? However, guerilla gardening is taking hold in many […]

UK: Climate deal in peril, says Brown

The climate deal planned for Copenhagen in 10 weeks’ time is in grave danger of failure, the prime minister has said. Gordon Brown has become the first world leader to offer to go to the Danish capital to help seal the deal. He told Newsweek magazine there was no second chance to undo “catastrophic damage” […]

Southeast Asian oil firms scout for foreign assets

Southeast Asia But whether energy groups such as Thailand

A world of mass disaster

…Professor McMichael is giving the annual Florey Lecture at the University of Adelaide at 5.30pm. He will warn that society has a “rather naive and false view” of the main determinants of human health, stating: “Ninety-nine per cent of the discussion has been about what individuals do, whether they smoke, drink, practice unsafe sex, whether […]

EarthTalk: using rainwater and goats

For most of us, the rain that falls on our roof runs off into the ground or the sewer system. But if you Beyond the benefits to individual homeowners, rainwater harvesting can also be good for the local community, as it reduces the erosion, flooding and pollution runoff associated with heavy rainfall, and lessens reliance […]

World's oceans warmest on record this summer

June-August temperatures were a full degree above normal WASHINGTON – Sea-surface temperatures worldwide have been the hottest on record over the last three months, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ocean temperatures averaged 62.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the June-August period, 1 degree higher than normal. Last month also saw the warmest August sea-surface […]

East German auto 'icon' might return as EV

Owners of Trabant name unveil all-electric vehicle, look for investors FRANKFURT – A vastly updated version of the boxy, smoky Trabant compact made in communist East Germany could be in production by 2012 as an electric powered green machine The nT retains the simple shape of the old version, the P 601 Universal Trabant, but […]

Economy, policies energizing Canada's wind sector

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s wind power companies are getting a lift from rising oil prices, a healthier economy and energy-friendly government policies, even as tight capital markets continue to curb the recovery of the fledgling sector. A C$654 million ($611 million) takeover bid by TransAlta Corp for Canadian Hydro Developers, the country’s biggest wind energy […]

'Crude' tactics in Ecuador

Joe Berlinger’s documentary examines Amazon natives’ $27-billion lawsuit over environmental fallout from nearby oil fields. For director Joe Berlinger, the painstaking road to making the powerful documentary “Crude,” all started with what he dubs his “toxi-tour” of a contaminated swath of Ecuador’s Amazonian rain forest. After massive oil exploration that began in the mid-1960s by […]

Big Oil Goes Green for Real

Remember back in 2001 when BP went “Beyond Petroleum”? It was a brilliant marketing campaign, but it had less to do with changing the company’s business model than positioning Lord John Browne as the Teflon oil executive. All but a tiny fraction of BP’s revenue came, and still comes, from oil. So how should we […]

Russian Bear vs. OPEC: A battle of wits!

With the global energy equation undergoing another adjustment-albeit a temporary one-a battle royal seems on the cards. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the top oil exporter. Exports of crude oil and refined products from Russia have risen to 7.4 million barrels a day […]

'Big players face output struggle'

Credit Suisse expects the major US and European integrated oil companies to struggle to boost output to 2020, saying the sector is unlikely to see any volume growth over the coming cycle. However, the brokerage said Chevron is the only one of the major players where it sees the potential for volume to stay flat […]

Left behind by Iraq's oil rush

Critics of the US invasion six years ago often said its ultimate aim was to control Iraq’s vast deposits of oil. So it is ironic, perhaps, that the first foreign oil company to start drilling operations in the country since 2003 should be from America’s growing rival, China. A year since it signed a 23-year, […]

Obama administration working toward climate deal

After months of almost single-minded focus on health care, President Barack Obama is about to shift the spotlight to global warming this week, first with a speech to the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, then later in the week at the G-20 economic conference in Pittsburgh. The renewed emphasis on climate change and […]

Squeezing the last bit of oil from Mother Earth

As the debate rages over how much longer the flow will last, valuable time is wasted It follows as night the day that the unquestionably finite nature of fossil fuels inevitably will cause significant changes in the global economy and our way of life. But the continued lack of absolute certainty With the final week […]

Lester R. Brown: On Energy, We're Finally Walking the Walk

The United States has entered a new energy era, ending a century of rising carbon emissions. As the U.S. delegation prepares for the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December, it does so from a surprisingly strong position, one based on a dramatic 9 percent drop in U.S. carbon emissions over the past two years […]

Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity

With two laptop-loving children and a Jack Russell terrier hemmed in by an electric fence, Peter Troast figured his household used a lot of power. Just how much did not really hit him until the night the family turned off the overhead lights at their home in Maine and began hunting gadgets that glowed in […]

Oil Crisis was a Peak into the Future

Jeff Rubin doesn’t fit the typical profile of an interview subject for The Dominion. For more than a decade, he was Chief Economist at CIBC World Markets, one of Canada’s largest investment banks. Rubin recently broke ranks with the financial crowd to publish his book, Why Your World is About to get a Whole Lot […]

Small used cars aren't big sellers as gas stays cheap

Despite all the talk about small cars, many used car buyers are thinking big again. Used small cars are taking the biggest hits on value in the resale market, Kelley Blue Book says. Even the once-hot, tiny Smart ForTwo is suffering, KBB says. “It’s part of a larger trend that’s been happening all year,” says […]

Huge corn crop helps ethanol industry argue its case

PRIMGHAR, IOWA The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this month that it expects the domestic corn crop to rise to 12.954 billion bushels, up 7 percent from a year earlier and the second-biggest in history. In Iowa, the nation’s biggest corn-producing state, evidence of the mammoth crop is everywhere. Towering green stalks blanket the landscape […]

Dept of Commerce: National Webinar for Industry on Climate Change

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) will host a Webinar (online presentations and audio conference) for industry participants on September 22, 2009. Participants will learn from U.S. government officials about the status of current negotiations and hear about key issues for U.S. industry, as well as potential commercial opportunities. The Webinar will also allow […]

Emerging From the Crisis of Capitalism Or Emerging From Capitalism in Crisis?

The principle of infinite accumulation, which defines capitalism as synonymous with exponential growth, and the latter, like cancer, results in death. John Stuart Mill, who understood this, imagined that a ’stationary state’ would put an end to this irrational process. John Maynard Keynes shared this optimism of the Reason. But neither was equipped to understand […]

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