Greenland: Uranium ban doesn’t discourage prospectors

Greenland doesn’t allow any uranium mining or prospecting to take place on the island. Despite this, companies are actively exploring Kvanefjeld in southern Greenland, one the largest undeveloped uranium-rich areas in the world, with an estimated $10 billion worth of uranium.Greenland Minerals was able to join forces with the Australian uranium company, Prime Minerals, to […]

War, politics, oil and gas

Iraq is not the only oil war at this time. New political battles for oil and gas are emerging as tensions rise between Western oil and gas conglomerates and the governments of non-Western countries, which are major future suppliers of these vital resources.Whatever happens, none can prevent a loss of bargaining power in oil and […]

Fact or Fiction?: Black Is Better than White for Energy-Efficient Screens

The green computing movement demands that all computer users shed the energy-wasting practices to which they’ve grown accustomed, so you decide that you’re going to power down your PC at night, invest in an Energy Star-approved laptop, and only visit Web pages that eschew white space in favor of ostensibly more energy-efficient black backgrounds. Before […]

Guyana: Dreaming of oil

It is a thinly populated slice of Atlantic coast backed by a large tract of rainforest. But Guyana reckons it may have struck riches, thanks to a decision by a United Nations tribunal on September 20th. This awarded most of a disputed area of sea to Guyana rather than its neighbour, Suriname. “Think Kuwait,” dreamed […]

Many biofuels have more climate impact than oil

Most crops grown in the United States and Europe to make “green” transport fuels actually speed up global warming because of industrial farming methods, says a report by Nobel prize winning chemist Paul J. Crutzen. The findings could spell particular concern for alternative fuels derived from rapeseed, used in Europe, which the study concluded could […]

Norway boosts antigraft rules for oil industry

Oil-rich Norway leant its support on Thursday to a global effort to rub out corruption in the oil, gas and mining industries, and a leading corruption-buster said he hoped other countries would follow suit. Norway became the first country to commit to implementing fully a set of principles created by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative […]

VZ: Oiling the wheels

President Hugo Chavez, who made diverting oil profits to the poor a hallmark of his administration, is faced with a series of corruption scandals that are threatening to undermine the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). Earlier in September, PDVSA reported a 65 per cent loss in earnings over the previous year, prompting critics […]

UK: Timetable set to phase out high-energy light bulbs

A bid to phase out all high-energy light bulbs on sale in British shops was announced by the Government today. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said he wanted to see the energy wasting bulbs start to disappear from the shelves in January and phased out by 2011. He told the Labour conference that retailers, energy suppliers […]

Diplomats accuse Bush of attempting to derail UN climate conference

President George Bush was yesterday criticised by diplomats for attempting to derail a UN initiative on climate change by pressing ahead with his own conference, which starts in Washington today. One European diplomat described the US meeting as a spoiler for a UN conference planned for Bali in December. Another, who spoke to the Guardian […]

For Total, pulling out of Myanmar not the answer

The French oil company Total said shutting its operations in Myanmar could cause even greater hardship in the country, despite a hardening attitude by France toward new investment amid a conflict between citizens and the ruling military junta that has left nine people dead. “We are convinced that through our presence we are helping to […]

Small cars that could raise American pulses

Predictions that this is the year Americans will finally embrace small cars seem to perpetually miss the mark. Gas that The problem is, so far most of the small cars sold in the United States have been not only inexpensive, but also cheap. Some drivers might appreciate the virtues of small, but few drivers enjoy […]

Chevron extends $5bn programme

Chevron, the second-largest US oil company, is to spend $15bn on its own shares within the next three years, extending a $5bn-a-year programme that began in 2005. The move reflects big oil companies’ difficulties in finding uses for their large cash flows, boosted by high oil prices. Some of Chevron’s rivals among the “big five” […]

Overpopulation could be people, planet problem

(CNN) — By the year 2050, China will no longer be the most populous country in the world. That distinction will pass to India, where more than 1.8 billion people could be competing for their country’s resources, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s International Data Base. The 2007 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau […]

UK: BP’s Buncefield fuel bid refused

GLOBAL oil company BP has been dealt a blow to its hopes of resuming the storage of petrol and diesel at the Buncefield fuel depot following the giant blast and fire there in December2005. Herts County Council decided it would not support the storage of volatile fuel on the site at a meeting last week […]

Green energy: Solar’s Big Boom

Dozens of planned projects could provide 65 times more solar power than at present California’s push for energy from the sun could turn the Golden State into the Saudi Arabia of the solar power industry. “California has a huge share of America’s best sunshine,” said John O’Donnell, vice president at Palo Alto-based Ausra. His company […]

Iran strengthens ties with South America’s leftist regimes

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Vilified by world leaders wary of his nuclear ambitions, Iran’s president is turning to South American leftists who are embracing him as an energy and trade partner and counterweight to U.S. influence. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was headed to Bolivia Thursday to establish first-time diplomatic relations with the Andean nation. He and President […]

Ask Leo: What is the Iraq war’s carbon footprint?

We are updated on a daily basis about the ever mounting human cost of the Iraq war, but even the US military is now starting to ask questions about how much oil the “war over oil” is consuming. Last year, Major General Richard Zilmer sent the Pentagon a “priority one” request from Iraq for “a […]

Are sunspots prime suspects in global warming?

Climate-change ‘optimists’ say complex natural cycles may be at the heart of global warming. It’s a modern-day climate scuffle William Herschel would recognize. He should. He helped trigger it. In 1801, the eminent British astronHe suggested that shifts in grain prices were a stand-in for shifts in climate. Large numbers of sunspots led to a […]

Put up pump prices or we will all count cost

I’m positive about climate change and energy saving and alternatives…. The problem in climate change is politics and how to manage the outcomes without making it worse, and negotiating complex agreements that are real, not just aspirational press statements. Many of the present ideas to handle the problem will hurt the poorest people in the […]

ENERGY-AFRICA: Big Potential and Challenges for Biofuels

DURBAN, Sep 27 (IPS) – Biofuels offer Africa the chance to supply itself with alternative energy sources, and also to become a major supplier of these sources for developed markets. Yet, challenges — from creating the relevant infrastructure to competition for biofuel crops from food markets — remain. “There is huge room for exploitation of […]

Week in Petroleum: Retractable roofs

In the past, factors such as warmer than normal weather during the peak winter months, and the absence of infrastructure damage due to hurricanes, have helped to keep a lid on oil prices. Many new sports stadiums, especially those located in less than ideal climates, have retractable roofs that are opened or closed depending on […]

Analysis: Nigerian rebels end cease-fire

Nigeria[…] MEND and other militant groups have called for a more equitable distribution of the country

Mountain mining called ”genocide” of Appalachia

KAYFORD MOUNTAIN, W. Va (Reuters) – Larry Gibson’s tiny house sits in a green oasis on top of the Appalachian peak his family has called home for 230 years. The setting would be peaceful if not for the roar of machinery scraping away the surrounding mountain in search of coal. “It’s a noisy, dusty place. […]

Saudi’s Naimi: Climate Change Policies Unfairly Taxing Oil

NEW YORK – Some industrialized countries are unfairly placing high taxes on petroleum products to discourage consumption as a method of addressing climate change, while encouraging greater use of polluting coal and nuclear power, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali Naimi said. Naimi told the United Nations meeting on climate change in a speech Monday that […]

Competition for oil and gas reserves heating up, says UN trade body

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Storm threat to Gulf scares oil higher

Possible hurricane, new tropical depression raise supply disruption concerns, pushing up price of crude. SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil prices rose by a dollar a barrel Thursday, extending overnight gains as a tropical depression near Mexico raised concerns about possible disruptions to oil and gas production there. Light, sweet crude for November delivery rose 78 cents […]

Canada faces NAFTA lawsuit from ExxonMobil

CORNER BROOK, N.L. – U.S. oil giants ExxonMobil and Murphy Oil are accusing Ottawa of breaching the North American Free Trade Agreement by allowing Newfoundland to require them to spend millions of dollars on research in the province. The two companies plan to sue the federal government, alleging it violated a previous NAFTA agreement when […]

Mouse click could plunge city into darkness, experts say

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned. Sources familiar with the experiment said the same attack scenario could be used against huge generators […]

How Bush’s Iraqi Oil-Grab Went Awry

Here is the sentence in The Age of Turbulence, the 531-page memoir of former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, that caused so much turbulence in Washington last week: “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” Honest and accurate, it had the resonance […]

Transport shortage impairs minorities

New research launched by Monash University today has exposed the critical nature of transport disadvantage in Australia. It has found marginalised social groups are socially excluded because they have poor access to transport. …”Social problems caused by a lack of appropriate transport is a major problem in Australia. The problem is growing as fuel prices […]

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