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.
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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.
Syria welcomes U.S. oil deals despite sanctions
Syria continues to sell oil to U.S. companies and encourage U.S. investment in its energy sector, despite Washington’s unilateral sanctions, Oil Minister Ibrahim Haddad told Reuters.
Libya supplies US with oil again
Libya has cemented its return to the international mainstream by resuming its former role as a supplier of oil to the US.
If oil-crunched Indonesia goes nuclear…
Official figures published in Jakarta last month show Indonesia became a net importer of crude oil for the first time in February and March.
Iraq receives $800m to boost crude production
Iraq’s new Oil Minister Thamer Ghadban welcomed yesterday the injection of $800 million from the US-led coalition to achieve his main goal of hiking production.
