The answer’s not just blowing in the wind
SCOTTISHPOWER chief executive Ian Russell has warned that the government’s ambitious targets for green energy are at risk unless other forms of renewable energy other than wind power are developed.
Green energy may be free but it ain’t gonna be cheap
The cost of the upgraded Scottish grid, some £625m on current plans, is to be spread across the bills of all 25m electricity customers in the UK on the grounds that, while Scotland has a lot of the best wind, the pursuit of a low carbon economy is in the interests of all who live on these islands.
U.S. addiction to oil puts it at mercy of risky characters
Ultimately, it’s up to U.S. consumers to wean themselves from their costly addiction to oil, which increasingly is coming from less-than-stable parts of the world. And this will require some tough love.
What if…
It’s 2006. Bin Laden conquers Arabia. Crude prices are nudging $100. A far-off fantasy? Don’t you believe it, writes Oliver Morgan
UK: Army guard on food if fuel crisis flares
Hundreds of troops will be deployed to defend vital supermarket depots in the event of fresh fuel protests in the autumn.
UK: Plan for new energy plant
Multi-million pound plans are being drawn up to build a pioneering waste-to-energy plant in Exeter, the Echo can today reveal.
Rights group denounces Australia over Timor oil
A US-based rights group denounced Australia yesterday, saying Canberra should be “ashamed” for allegedly robbing East Timor of much-needed oil and gas revenues from the disputed seabed between the two nations.
California: Large energy buyers find market dry
Shaken energy managers throughout Silicon Valley are finding cheap, long-term electricity deals a thing of the past as they go about trying to replace expiring energy contracts.
China Pledges to Use More Alternatives to Oil and Coal
China declared on Friday that it would generate 10 percent of its power through renewable sources by 2010. However energy consumption in China is rising so rapidly that even a national campaign will barely reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Oil prices ease as Opec opens tap
Oil prices eased further below $40 a barrel yesterday as an Opec deal to pump more crude outweighed underlying fears of political instability in top producer Saudi Arabia.
Blast hits Russian oil depot
A bomb blast has ripped through an oil storage depot in the town of Neftekumsk in Russia’s Stavropol region.
Present oil trouble not without a past
Carter was serious about energy alternatives and paid a significant price — and wise politicians have avoided the problem ever since.
