Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Hastings Mesa, a rural US town in the San Juan Mountains is fighting to stay off the electricity grid. This low energy testbed community is under threat just as long term energy crises begin to loom on the horizon.
The dollar fell against the euro for the ninth straight day, the longest losing streak since January 2003, on concern record oil prices will slow U.S. growth.
Oil prices raced up to new record highs, approaching 56 dollars in New York amid fears a strike could cripple supplies from Norway, the world’s third-largest oil exporter.
The Army has agreed to a Pentagon investigation into claims by a top contracting official that a Halliburton subsidiary unfairly won no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for work in Iraq and the Balkans, according to Army documents obtained Sunday.
The period of liberal reform activism in Saudi Arabia, which had dominated the political scene since the beginning of 2003, has come to an end due to a combination of higher oil prices, a relatively successful security strategy against militants, the continuing importance to the regime of Islamist political currents and the unsettled regional environment that has put an end to this brief spell of political ferment.
Soaring oil prices have convinced governments of the need for a change in energy technology – the race to build wave and tidal stream machines is on.
A campaign to get Northern Ireland households to save energy and the environment is to be launched. A report has said the year 2050 could see more flooding, decimation of the farming industry and the spread of diseases unless we cut back.
A number of large oil producers in the world, including Norway and the UK, had reached their peak in production and the world will have to rely on the Middle East nations to bridge the gap. But even in Saudi Arabia the large oil fields have already been producing for decades and are close to their peak.
The oil industry, faced with record high crude prices, is facing a structural crisis of the severity not seen since the 1970s when crude prices soared to unprecedented summits, an energy consultancy warned Monday.
INVESTMENTS by leading British energy companies in Bolivia’s huge gas reserves are under threat from a popular movement clamouring for nationalisation of the country’s hydrocarbon resources.
A decade after the controversial privatisation of Argentina’s oil, gas and power industries, the state is staging a return to the energy sector with a new company created to influence a market controlled by a handful of mainly foreign companies.
This Presidential campaign has been as ugly and as bitter as any in American memory. The ugliness has flowed mostly in one direction, reaching its apotheosis in the effort, undertaken by a supposedly independent group financed by friends of the incumbent, to portray the challenger—who in his mid-twenties was an exemplary combatant in both the Vietnam War and the movement to end that war—as a coward and a traitor.
