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| 6th bomb targets B.C. pipeline: RCMP |
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 VANCOUVER–RCMP say EnCana's natural gas pipeline in northeastern B.C. has been targeted by a sixth bombing attack, the second in three days.
The Mounties confirm a bomb went off between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. this morning near Pouce Coupe, not far from the site of a July 2 bombing.
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| Book review: Taking Jeff Rubin to task |
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| It's only nine pages in before author and former CIBC economist Jeff Rubin makes the startling admission that economics tells only half the story about resource scarcity and depletion. Fortunately, he immediately promises that the pages to follow will tell "the other half." Unfortunately, he fails to deliver. So while still a fantastic book, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization is simultaneously a frustrating read.
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| Nigeria, Algeria, Niger Sign Accord on Gas Pipeline |
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July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria, Algeria and Niger signed an agreement on a proposed Trans-Saharan pipeline that will ship natural gas from Nigeria to Europe.
The accord was signed by Nigerian Petroleum Minister Rilwanu Lukman, Niger’s Energy Minister Mohammed Abdullahi and his Algerian counterpart Chakib Khelil in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, today. The project will cost an estimated $10 billion, he said at the signing ceremony.
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| House climate bill wouldn't cut U.S. oil dependence much |
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WASHINGTON - Despite its title as the "American Clean Energy and Security Act," the energy and climate bill that the House of Representatives passed recently takes only a modest step toward reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Two studies project that the legislation would cut oil use in the future, but not enough to make much of a dent in dependence on oil from unstable or unfriendly foreign suppliers. Some experts say that other steps will be needed to cut U.S. oil use significantly.
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| China says "carbon tariffs" proposals breach WTO rules |
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Proposals to impose "carbon tariffs" on imported products will violate the rules of the World Trade Organization as well as the spirit of the Kyoto Protocol, China's Ministry of Commerce said.
In a statement posted on its website, the ministry said collecting carbon duties from foreign products would enable developed countries to "protect trade in the name of protecting the environment."
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| Iraqi crude deal 'boost' for China's oil security quest |
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The successful joint bid by BP and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) to develop an oilfield in Iraq has offered unique opportunities for the Chinese company to tap crude reserves in the oil-rich nation, analysts said yesterday.
But domestic oil producers should prepare themselves well for any uncertainties in the war-torn country, which boasts of the third-largest oil reserves in the world, they added.
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| Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion |
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| Carlhole writes " Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.
That April 2001 report, "Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century," was prepared by the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations at the request of then-Vice President Dick Cheney."
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| Nearly two months ago, Turkey and the EU finally overcame two outstanding problems regarding the transit of Azerbaijan's natural gas to Europe across Turkey: that is, the price to Ankara of the Nabucco pipeline and the legal framework for domestic Turkish regulation of the venture. That gas would come from the second stage of development of Azerbaijan's large offshore Shah-Deniz deposit. Overcoming these problems set the stage for a signing ceremony in Ankara for the Nabucco project, to be held
on June 25. That date has come and gone, without the ceremony and without the signatures.
An agreement was, however, signed this week between Baku and Moscow for the sale of offshore Azerbaijani gas to Russia's Gazprom. Appearances to the contrary, this was not a dagger at the heart of Nabucco.
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| Nova Scotia needs a new deal |
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| ...The key thing is that the full costs of imported food is not included. We don't have to go down the protectionist route, it's just that the cost of transportation and use of energy and greenhouse gas emissions are omitted from the actual price of the product. We have to be able to bring those true costs into the accounting system; we have to have an accounting system that includes social and environmental benefits and costs---without that, nothing's going to change.
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| Part 1: America's sobering future--The Long Emergency |
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For some strange reason, my critics love hurling ad hominem attacks concerning my attempts to educate Americans on our impending water shortages, energy crisis, species extinctions, climate destabilization and a Pandora's Box of forthcoming harsh realities facing America as it inundates itself with relentless immigration. Therefore, this two part series supports everything in my work with more fact and realities we all face no matter what our race, creed, color or political choices.
Even with the election of Barack Obama, we Americans stand in the cross hairs of ominous social and environmental change in the early years of the 21st century. Each day, media reports stream into major networks as they expose ‘symptoms’ erupting across the planet. Water shortages, ozone pollution, species extinction, gridlocked traffic, energy crisis and other calamities dominate the news.
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| Los Angeles will end use of coal-fired power |
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.
Consumers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest city-owned utility in the United States with 1.45 million electricity customers, will see higher power bills in the fight against climate change, he added in his inaugural speech for his second four-year term as mayor on Wednesday.
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| Exxon, Valero Face New Curbs on Cancer-Causing Gases |
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| (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is considering new curbs on U.S. oil refineries whose gas emissions pose a cancer risk to hundreds of thousands of people living near the plants, setting up a potential conflict with companies over the cost of new regulations.
The White House suspended a ruling signed by President George W. Bush four days before he left office that found refiners were adequately controlling benzene and other cancer- causing gases, said Cathy Milbourn, a spokeswoman at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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| Blast hits British Columbia natural gas facility |
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| VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A gas leak at a natural gas facility in northeastern British Columbia appears to have been caused by a pipeline bombing, a spokeswoman for EnCana said Thursday.
EnCana's Rhona DelFrari said the site of the gas leak was close to the area of four other bombings targeting the company's pipelines since October.
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| Efforts to extort money to avoid another gas cut-off come to nothing
IN BLACKMAIL timing can be everything. The governments of Russia and Ukraine have cause to ponder this after failing to extract billions of euros from the
European
Union
in the name of keeping Russian gas flowing to Europe next winter.
Thanks to recession and competition from cheaper suppliers, European demand for Russian gas has fallen. It is also summer. So right now governments and gas companies are unusually brave over threats to cut off the gas. They have resisted pressure to give Ukraine a huge loan that both the Russians and Ukraine’s squabbling leaders say is needed to avoid another dispute like the one that blocked Russian gas in January, affecting 18 of the 27 EU countries. Whether Europe’s nerve will hold as winter approaches remains to be seen. Russia supplies 42% of all EU gas imports, and its share is rising.
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| Obama energy policy to cost taxpayers |
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| President Obama has targeted oil, natural gas and coal - all carbon fuels - for higher taxation, an energy expert told a Tulsa luncheon on the eve of the “cap and trade” vote last week in the U.S. House.
Bob Tippee, editor of the Oil & Gas Journal, told a meeting of the Energy Advocates that Obama wants to adopt the “California view.”
Obama’s policy would cost the oil and gas industry at least $50 billion a year.
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