Nigeria acknowledges petroleum scarcity

ABUJA, Nigeria (UPI) — Nigerian energy ministers countered petroleum executives by acknowledging there was a national shortage in the supply of natural resources. Odein Ajumogobia, the Nigerian minister of state for petroleum resources, said in a rare showing of culpability that there was a national shortage of petroleum products, the Nigerian Compass reports. The minister […]

Hydro Green Energy fish survival study could spur future projects

In this fish story, the big ones did get away. A fish survival study has found that very few fish are injured by a slow-spinning electricity turbine installed in Hastings by Houston-based Hydro Green Energy LLC. Just one of 402 fish allowed to swim through the 12-foot diameter turbine installed in the tailrace of a […]

Oil Won

One nagging question that the industrial world has been asking itself since the discovery of the first oil well is what happens when the wells begin to run dry. The answer is relatively simple to imagine. We had a dry run, so to speak, when Dubai But before we run the Armageddon tape that the […]

Arctic Oil Ambitions: Exxon Eyes $1 Bln Transocean Rig

ExxonMobil could be ramping up its Arctic exploration intentions with reported plans to commission a rig able to withstand the brutal and ice-covered regions such as offshore Greenland and Alaska. The biggest U.S. oil company is looking to sign a contract for a Transocean rig capable of drilling in Arctic waters and which is estimated […]

Where on Earth is it unusually warm?

It Significantly, a new study,

The Future of the Southwest: Localization and Carrying Capacity

For the holidays this year, I stuck with my vow to never fly again at Christmas and opted to drive the roughly 1,600 mile round trip instead. …On the way, I had ample time to muse about the future and take in the on-the-ground reality of the Southwest. Foremost in my mind was the question: […]

After a Century of Growth, U.S. Fleet Entering Era of Decline

America Among the trends that are keeping sales well below the annual figure of 15

Arrest in B.C. pipeline bombings, search of Ludwig farm

RCMP have arrested a man in relation to the bombings that terrorized north-eastern British Columbia last year, and are searching a farm belonging to notorious eco-warrior Wiebo Ludwig. In what they called The farm belongs to Mr. Ludwig, according to Hythe mayor Gary Burgess, who was notified of the search by RCMP Friday morning. News […]

Prius No. 1 in Japan Sales as Green Interest Grows

The Toyota Prius is so sought after in Japan it is the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle to top annual sales, with buyers willing to wait six months for deliveries of the curvaceous “green” car The Prius has caught on in the U.S. and other parts of the world as well, although not with quite the […]

'Tea-party' protesters in Scottsdale target emission rules

Executives from several large, publicly traded electric utilities were greeted in Scottsdale on Thursday by a group of “tea party” protesters demanding that the companies fight global-warming legislation. The protesters – Americans for Prosperity, the Scottsdale Tea Party and FreedomWorks – said that man-made global warming is not real and that utilities should reject new […]

Energy-Rich Venezuela Faces Power Crisis

CARACAS — Venezuela, a country with vast reserves of oil and natural gas, as well as massive rushing waterways that cut through its immense rain forests, strangely finds itself teetering on the verge of an energy crisis. Venezuela’s seemingly endless resources have allowed the government for decades to just about give away its gasoline — […]

Trolley Canal Boats (Excerpt)

For many centuries, canal boats were propelled by men, horses or mules on the towpath beside the water. Before diesel power took over, engineers developed several interesting methods powered by electricity: trolleyboats, floating funiculars and electric mules. Many of these ecological solutions could be applied today instead of diesel engines. Because of the very low […]

Climate change: A civil rights issue for blacks

Climate change is more than an environmental issue. It is a human rights and economic justice issue. Why? Because though climate change impacts all of us, different nations, and different communities within nations, experience the effects of climate change in varying ways, some worse than others. This point was clearly made at last month’s U.N. […]

Sudan could plunge into new war: aid agencies

KHARTOUM (AFP) “It is not yet too late to avert disaster, but the next 12 months are a crossroads for Africa’s largest country,” said the report’s co-author, Maya Mailer, from Oxfam. “Last year saw a surge in violence in southern Sudan. This could escalate even further and become one of the biggest emergencies in Africa […]

Why

ONE day, oil production will begin declining. The world The economic uncertainty would eclipse the current recession, the potential for global conflict would shoot upwards, and some predict that we

Uh-oh: The return of $3 gas

…Will gas and oil prices keep climbing? And if so, how much higher do they need to go before they possibly put a dent in what appears to be a burgeoning, yet still fragile, economic recovery? Darin Newsom, senior analyst with Telvent DTN, a financial markets research firm based in Omaha, Neb., said it looks […]

ANALYSIS – China eyes Caribbean fuel oil market now, crude later

MEXICO CITY/BEIJING (Reuters) – PetroChina’s move to take a big position in Caribbean oil storage should give the state oil company immediate muscle in the region’s residual fuel trade and open up longer-term options for crude trading. PetroChina’s assumption this week of Saudi Aramco’s lease on 5 million barrels of oil storage capacity at the […]

Middle East: Atomic agitation

Just over a month ago, a group of veteran US and Israeli diplomats met at Harvard to play out scenarios for one of the most momentous issues facing the world this year In the simulation, as in real life, the stakes were high. If Iran comes within reach of a nuclear weapon

Offshore wind schemes given green light

The go-ahead has been given for a major expansion of offshore wind power in the seas around Scotland. The Crown Estate, a UK government agency, has granted offshore wind rights for energy companies in the Moray Firth and the Firth of Forth. It is believed the development could lead to 1,000 new turbines generating nearly […]

Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Lands Comes Under Intensive Scrutiny

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has announced changes to the federal onshore oil and gas leasing program that he says will improve protections for land, water, and wildlife and reduce potential conflicts that lead to costly and time-consuming protests and litigation of leases. The reforms pleased conservationists, who say they will provide greater environmental oversight, more […]

John Michael Greer: Housebreaking the Corporations

One obstacle to constructive change in the face of peak oil I didn The principle behind that effect is simple enough to grasp. Whenever power has been diffused to the point that no one power center can carry out its agenda without the consent of many others, any well-organized faction becomes a power broker. It […]

The 14 Most Heinous Climate Villains

The science of climate change is pretty basic: humans dig up fossilized carbon to fuel power plants and internal combustion machines, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Result: greenhouse effect global heating. Around 50% of all the species on the planet are predicted to become extinct by 2100 in the CO2-as-usual model. Our own species will […]

Endless Oil

Technology, politics, and lower demand will yield a bumper crop of crude …Schoonebeek will not flood the world with crude. But its success presents a stiff challenge to those who argue that oil production is in irreversible decline. Consumer demand, technology, and global politics are shifting in a way that could spell a future of […]

Will Google Energy Power Its Data Centers?

Google has formed a new subsidiary to buy and sell power on the wholesale market, and hopes the move will help provide more renewable energy to meet its corporate carbon reduction goals. The company formed Google Energy last month and has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to allow it to participate in the […]

Flicking the switch: the pressing issue of getting UK business energy efficient

With the disappointment of Copenhagen turning into history and the economic situation still tough, there is growing concern that not enough is being achieved to get businesses more energy efficient. But those that have ’switched on’ say they are reaping the benefits.Business spoke out forcefully, last month, after the failure of Copenhagen to deliver a […]

Iraq, Iran start talks on disputed border area

Iraq’s Hoshiyar Zebari met Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in a move to cool tensions between the neighbors after a small contingent of Iranian troops moved into an oilfield inside Iraqi territory last month and Iraq vowed it would not give up an inch of its land. Their comments at a news conference after the meeting […]

Half Of Money Managers Ignore Climate Risks: Survey

Nearly half of global money managers are making investment decisions without factoring in risks or opportunities associated with climate change, according to a survey released on Wednesday by a coalition of environmentalists and investors. A related report recommended that money managers and institutional investors do climate risk assessments on all investments and encourage the U.S. […]

UK: 1970s-style rationing as National Grid cuts off gas to factories

Vauxhall’s car plant at Ellesmere Port and British Sugar’s refineries at Bury St Edmunds and Newark are among nearly 100 factories that have had their energy supplies cut as Britain threatens to lurch from whiteout to blackout. The National Grid has told British Gas and other power suppliers to cut or reduce their power to […]

US scientists demand government ban on mountaintop mining

Mountaintop mining should be banned for causing vast and permanent destruction to US environment and exposing its people to serious health consequences such as birth defects, a new study says today. An article in the journal Science, by a team of 12 ecologists, hydrologists, and engineers, provides the most comprehensive analysis so far of the […]

All sustainable transportation subsidies shouldn't be created equal, expert

When it comes to pumping up the appeal of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), some regions are more ripe for the cars than others, and some consumers’ buttons need more pushing than others – an important policy distinction when shaping subsidies, two energy policy experts say. In a recent article in Energy Policy, a leading […]

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