Oil Industry – Feb 15

Oil E&P costs increase 53% in two years

Belarus hikes Russian oil transit fees

US Governor wants $1.50 per barrel oil tax

Price of oil heading into swoon: investment firm

US OK’s new oil reserve site

Climate – Feb 15

Branson offers $25 million prize to ‘defeat global warming’ (critique)

Measuring the uncertainty of climate change

Population growth plays a key role
Utilities’ study questions prospects for much lower emissions

Transport – Feb 15

Sick transit

Clearing the air on air travel
Passenger jets get a radical green makeover
India: Call for tax increase on cars

Nuclear – Feb 15

UK government loses nuclear power case
Japanese nuclear power steams ahead
Israel considers building nuclear plant

Biofuels – Feb 15

What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
S. Africa: Making sure it’s worth the candle

Ethanol has fish, wildlife officials worried
Jatropha, the Cinderella plant

Renewables – Feb 15

The heated debate over Citizenre
WSJ: The new math of alternative energy

Renewables to power Indonesian villages

How green is BC’s plan?

Targets are bold, but aim seems wobbly
Natural resources will help meet green goals
Greening of BC insincere, impotent after Apr 1
Campbell’s souped-up climate initiative

Peak oil – Feb 15

Chevron exec: Running out of oil may not be the issue
CERA’s Jackson:
Peak oil theory could distort energy policy and debate
Aubrey Meyer on the confluence of peak oil and climate change
UK Environment Research Agency – no peak pil strategy

More from Big Oil – Feb 15

Big Oil’s hot air show on global warming
Exxon cautions against rapid action on GHGs
Risks from oil nationalism “unacceptable”

British Columbia goes green

Green changes sweeping British Columbia
Plan to make B.C. the continent’s greenest
Will be acid test for environmental concerns

New rules threaten proposed coal projects
Too timid a response (new)