UK: Government ‘failing’ on energy crisis
BRITAIN is moving closer to a blackouts crisis in the energy industry, as the Government was today accused of wasting another year by burying its head in the sand.
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Asian Scavengers Feed China’s Hunger for Steel
With its relentless industrial rise, China, once known as the Middle Kingdom, has become a massive magnet inexorably drawing scrap metal from across Asia.
Engines revving as China goes car crazy
Automakers see ‘gold rush,’ others fear impact on environment
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.
Iraqi PM tells nation occupation forces must stay
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s new prime minister told the nation that U.S-led coalition troops should remain even after the June 30 handover of power to an Iraqi government.
Detroit’s Complacency
THIS SUMMER, with gasoline prices reaching $2 per gallon across America, Ford Motor Co. will begin selling the first gas-electric hybrid SUV.
Re-regulating utilities puts Californians in charge of energy destiny
With significant energy shortages forecast as early as 2006, California is dangerously close to experiencing a repeat of the energy crisis that nearly crippled our economy and threatened our environment a few years ago.
Iraq War Colonial and About Oil, Says Turki
The US-led invasion of Iraq was a colonial war and there were some in the United States who saw it as a means of getting their hands on Iraqi oil, Prince Turki Al-Faisal was quoted as saying yesterday.
Five years of drought force Las Vegas to tear up its grass
The bulldozer roars, and bites into a patch of green grass in Las Vegas, the city once hailed for making the desert bloom.
Jurassic Park, Pseudo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib Part One
Some interesting realpolitik analysis and some philosophising against a peak oil back drop from ex-military man Stan Goff.
Vonnegut: Cold Turkey
When you got here, even when I got here, the industrialized world was already hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels, and very soon now there won’t be any more of those. Cold turkey.
We’re born to be wild
Beyond the boundaries of civilisation: Landmark study shows lab rats revert to survival mode within hours when set free. Is it the same for humans?
