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AFP China is relying on coal-fired power plants to meet severe electricity shortages, but such heavy polluters are damaging the environment and harming its people and its neighbours.
Nigeria’s oil industry – Africa’s largest and the fifth-biggest source of US oil imports – is concerned for its future after a yearlong spree of bloodletting that has killed more than 1 000 people in the Niger Delta.
Beleaguered Russian giant Yukos can continue to produce and sell oil despite an earlier demand to stop output, according to Russian officials.
The UK today joined a US-led partnership that seeks to cut global methane gas emissions and to promote methane recovery and use as a clean energy source.
In a fascinating new documentary, The End of Suburbia – Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, the central question is this: Does the suburban way of life have a future? The answer is a resounding no.
Citing recent success in alternative power, GE Energy, a subsidiary of General Electric Co. is hoping to boost its solar energy sales to $1 billion annually by the end of the decade, the head of GE’s solar business said.
The United States’ growing dependence on foreign oil is widely recognized as the nation’s Achilles heel, a disaster in the works. But sometimes it seems that every solution to that horrendous problem leads into a box canyon.
U.S. Will Help Poorer Nations Harvest Methane Emissions and Turn Them Into Clean-Burning Fuel.
A three part Canadian documentary series deals in part with the oil peak. “Soon enough, the era of cheap oil will be over. If prices rise too steeply there could be a devastating effect on the world’s economy.”
A multimillion-dollar effort to clean polluted water flowing underground from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to the Columbia River is largely ineffective, concludes a federal report released yesterday.
Possible shutdown of Russian oil giant Yukos sparks rally.
WMD was the rationale for invading Iraq. But what was really driving the US were fears over oil and the future of the dollar
