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Gustavo González Ten percent renewable sources of energy, established as a worldwide goal for 2010, is already a reality in Latin America, but that has been achieved mostly through big hydroelectric dams, which environmentalists argue are not sustainable.
The European Union opened more of its energy market to full competition yesterday but there was little to celebrate. Power prices are high, big utilities dominate, and only two of 25 EU states met a deadline to transpose rules into national law.
What do carpet, tires and paint have in common? They are just a few of the household items getting more expensive due to the high cost of oil and natural gas.
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report concludes there is a significant risk of construction cost increases for the Hanford nuclear site’s waste treatment plant, the government’s largest construction project.
The project is situated off Russia’s eastern coast and estimated to have a maximum oil and oil-condensate output of 700,000 barrels per day — similar to that of OPEC member Qatar.
NEARLY 30 years after work began on the Bataan nuclear power plant just north of Manila, Filipino taxpayers are still paying 155,000 dollars a day in interest on a structure that has never produced one watt of power.
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas newsletter is, once again, essential reading.
If China’s economy moved forward to a level that was approximately on par with Mexico’s current economy, the world demand for oil would double.
Moore implies — correctly — that the primary motive for the war was to seize the oil fields. He does not discuss “peak oil” theory, which — if valid — does much to explain why Bush viewed this seizure as a necessity.
Tehran finds itself located in a very volatile region of the world, one in which powerful outside interests have as their major foreign policy objective the desire to prevent a Middle Eastern state from gaining too much power.
The smooth, prompt start-up of about a dozen big-ticket oil projects over the next 18 months is more important than ever to meeting global oil demand growth and keeping prices under control, analysts say.
Solar panels are in short supply because many manufacturers are sending their available product to Germany and Japan, where they can be sold for more.
