Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
staff reporter A parliamentary report warned the British government Wednesday that it is unlikely to meet its targets to produce 10 per cent of the country`s electricity from renewable energy sources by 2010.
The introduction of ox-drawn ambulances is a sign that President Robert Mugabe is taking Zimbabwe back to the stone ages, the opposition says.
The crew of a Hong Kong-registered oil tanker refused to dock in the Iraqi oil terminal of Basra out of fears of terror attacks, the company that owns the ship said Tuesday.
Population growth and energy demand are exhausting the world’s fossil energy supplies,
some on the timescale of a single human lifespan. Increasingly, sharing natural resources
will require close international cooperation, peace, and security.
“Americans are paying the ultimate price for the oil on Ford’s hands, and today’s protest marks a tipping point in the grassroots movement for an automotive energy revolution.”
The collapse of the Earth’s magnetic field, which both guards the planet and guides many of its creatures, appears to have started in earnest about 150 years ago.
The United States, keen to develop new sources of oil supply outside the Middle East, has offered to help Nigeria protect the flow of oil in the Gulf of Guinea and combat terrorist attacks on the oil industry, officials said.
Rivalry for energy, especially oil, between China and Japan on a global scale is unavoidable. From a Japanese perspective, the emergence of a strong and prosperous China is not a pleasant thought.
The petrol consortiums and to some extent the governments of Bolivia, Argentina and Chile have woven a tapestry of distortion and cover-ups to hide crucial elements in the United States strategy of forced appropriation of Latin American natural resources.
Economics is the game of tiddly-winks that we can afford to play only in the midst of easy, abundant energy. Energy is the Donut, economics is the Hole.
In the past two months no fewer than a dozen people in Iraq and Saudi Arabia demonstrated in three separate incidents their willingness to die for the cause of hurting the U.S economy in what appears to be a new phase in the war on terror.
As the second greatest crude oil consuming country in the world, China has seen a the gap between domestic ability to supply and demand for crude oil widen in the first five months of this year, according to figures released by China Customs.
