Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In a few decades, many OPEC nations in the Middle East will have such large populations that they could end up consuming much or all of the energy they now export, suggests Matthew Simmons, an oil consultant in Houston.
Hydro Tasmania says the Federal Government’s decision not to extend the Mandatory Renewable Energy Targets (MRET) scheme will spell an end to wind farm development after 2008.
Green Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says farmers should stop seeing environmental concerns as a threat and recognise that it is essential to their economic interests to clean up their act.
Powergen owner E.ON UK yesterday said it was planning to build what could be its most powerful onshore wind farm in Britain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 will sign an agreement in December to receive spent nuclear fuel from Iran, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
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.
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.
