UK: E.ON plans Ayrshire wind farm
Powergen owner E.ON UK yesterday said it was planning to build what could be its most powerful onshore wind farm in Britain.
Australia’s House of Debt
Most Australians are too busy working to pay off mortgages, HECS fees, medical bills, insurance, credit cards, and personal debt to care about the government’s debt. We will literally be “working until we drop” because our combined household debt has now outstripped our total income. For every $100 we earn, we owe $130.
$80 Oil, Here We Come!!!
In this issue, I will examine several of the reasons why the price of oil will not significantly pull back from today’s levels and is likely to reach the $80 mark within the next 24 months.
Kunstler On US Election Results
Bush will enter his second term with a flimsy mandate. He will preside over the global oil production peak and the widespread instabilities it will initiate, including ever-widening jihad. There is every indication that the US economy — based on continual suburban development — will crater under the circumstances of the next four years.
Analyst: Libya is ‘exploration buzz’ among IOCs for 2005
Libya is “the central exploration and production buzz for 2005” among international oil companies looking for access to potentially giant oil and gas fields, said energy analyst Catherine Hunter in a report drafted for the World Markets Research Centre, part of the London-based Global Insight group of companies.
Libya to abolish $5bn of subsidies
Libya intended to abolish $5 billion (about R30.4 billion) worth of subsidies on electricity, fuel and basic food in a major move to liberalise its economy, Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem said on Monday.
UK: Higher gas and electricity bills linked to higher oil prices
Millions more households are facing higher fuel bills this winter after Powergen, the UK’s second biggest energy supplier, said it was raising gas and electricity prices.
Wind: Don’t Let It Happen In The English Countryside
Don’t go down the same route as Germany or you could bitterly regret the devastating effects on the English countryside and its communities. That is the stark message from Germany’s leading protester against windfarms.
Oil sands costs may rise 35%
Canadian Natural Resources says high prices for steel, fuel and labour could boost the cost of the first phase of its Horizon oil sands project in northern Alberta by nearly 35 per cent — to $6.6-billion.
Russia to Sign Nuclear Deal With Iran in December
Russia will sign an agreement in December to receive spent nuclear fuel from Iran, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
The Rapture Index and the US election
These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true.
US Election: Global monitors find faults
The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system.
