Blair set to press nuclear button
Tony Blair is preparing to commit the country to the biggest nuclear power programme since the 1960s if he wins the forthcoming general election.
Michael Harrison
New Caspian Oil Likely to Cushion Market, nothing more
But many Caspian estimates proved to be unrealistic, at least in the short term. Experts now say the Caspian should in coming years pump some 4 million to 5 million barrels per day, on par with Iran.
North America hungry for LNG.
The Australian federal government is pushing for Australia to be a major supplier of LNG to Mexico and the west coast of the US.
The shrinking salad bowl: Houses and malls becoming the fastest-growing crop in California
…as we get hungry we will be motivated as never before to protect soil fertility and water reserves, and learn to feed ourselves without using fossil-fuel-based fertilizers and pesticides. Organic and sustainable farming will no longer be trendy. We will feed ourselves according to our ability to replicate the soil food web’s systems of nutrient and carbon cycling and nature’s biodiversity, and to learn from long-surviving species.
China replacing the United States as the worlds leading consumer
Although the United States has long consumed the lion’s share of the world’s resources, this situation is changing fast as the Chinese economy surges ahead, overtaking the United States in the consumption of one resource after another.
Oil prices push UK manufacturing costs up
British manufacturers’ raw materials costs rose at their sharpest pace in four and a half years in January as the price of crude oil and imported goods surged.
China Says Oil to Exceed 50 Percent of Its Energy by 2010
China will rely on oil for more than half of its energy by 2010, when net imports will rise to between 180 million tons and 200 million tons of oil a year, a Chinese official said.
Oil reporting must be more ‘transparent’
Oil companies must be forced to report more fully and transparently about their oil and gas reserves within annual reports and financial statements, according to Big Four firm Deloitte.
Loopholes in Kyoto protocol create headaches
In 15 year’s time — and much sooner if the economy continues to explode — China will overtake the US as the world’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gases. Now, this does not mean that by 2020 it will be a rich country with most people owning cars or using air conditioning like in the US or Europe.
Peak Oil: Time to Get Serious
The skeptics think that it is already too late. Isn’t time to get serious about peak oil and global warming? About navigating The Bottleneck? About imminent global societal collapse?
Climate fears prompt energy U-turn in China
China has abruptly slowed and halted work on building 22 major dams
and power stations in a dramatic greening of the policies of the
world’s most populous nation.
Oil bulls shrug off winter discontent
Oil and stocks both finished higher last week. They may not be able to move in tandem for ever. But the long-term oil bulls aren’t backing off.
