EU/US GM Trade War Escalates Over Corn
The EU has banned the import of US corn feed. The new embargo has further strained a trade relationship already tense over genetically modified food, Airbus subsidies, and the weapons embargo against China.
Ecomagination – you heard it here first
GE shows its green colors, with full page ads full of .. imagination.
Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows
CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first
signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream — the
mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe
from freezing.
Asian countries subsidizing fuel hit hard by higher oil prices
KUALA LUMPUR : Higher oil prices are creating major problems for Asian countries which subsidize fuel costs, threatening economic growth if the subsidies are kept in place and consumer outrage if they are not.
Edinburgh Peak Oil Conference – Proceedings Now Available
More than 200 people attended a one-day conference in Edinburgh on 25 April 2005 to hear five leading experts discuss the implications of the approaching peak and decline in global oil supplies.
Energy Headlines – May 9, 2005
Pr. Aleklett interviewed on Undercurrent radio / Chavez: Oil Firms Owing Taxes Must Pay Or Leave / OPEC Head blames high prices on ‘psychological worry’ / Cities, Skyscrapers and Energy / Ethanol boost in Minnesota fuel heads closer to law / Markets At A Glance Peak Oil – Are We There Yet?
OPEC, Oil and a Paradox
Good discussion of the realities OPEC (and we) should be considering rather than the rhetoric that flows so freely from Western leaders and bankers.
Energy Headlines – May 8, 2005
Oil and gas depletion workshop in Lisbon May 19-20 / James Kunstler on Art Bell show May 8 / UK plans huge nuclear power program / UK Secretary of Environment opposes nuclear / Who will pay for UK’s nuclear program?
Progress in production of hydrogen by microbial fuel cells
Penn State environmental engineers and a scientist at Ion Power Inc. have developed an electrically assisted process that enables bacteria to coax four times as much hydrogen directly out of biomass than can be generated typically by fermentation alone.
Energy Headlines – May 7, 2005
Getting prepared for PO – no immediate blot on the horizon / Building the hydrogen boom in Iceland / Largest solar power station in Portugal / Recovering from lignite / Bush energy proposals critiqued / Green car blogger answers transport and fuel questions / Seattle “Beyond Oil” conference May 14
‘The people and the political class are at one: neither wants to face the future’
Declining world oil production, the huge private debts of Britons and Americans, the lack of an exit strategy in Iraq, and irreversible global warming: these are the big challenges of the next four years. For all of them, Britain will be gloriously unprepared.
Energy Headlines – May 6, 2005
Radical youth journal espouses PO / “End of Suburbia” scares, inspires N. Calif. audience / Rep. Bartlett sets another precedent / Energy policy is “So stupid, it’s painful” says Molly Ivins / Will wood help fill US energy needs? / Oil discovery in Utah / Oil projects may get less scrutiny / Blair’s next war / Nations seek to ‘save oil in a big hurry’ / JPMorgan Chase pledges sustainability
