Biofuels – Feb 13
A really bad day for biofuels
Robert Rapier: The politics of biofuels
Biofuels leading to rights abuses: report
Dark side of a hot biofuel (palm oil)
Ethanol’s effects bother boaters
Staff
Coal – Feb 13
China spurs coal-price surge
What to do with all this coal?
SA coal mining plans put fresh water at risk
Mine expansion in middle of fight; natural streams buried
Venezuela, Russia – Feb 13
Venezuela halts oil sales to Exxon Mobil
Exxon VP: Interested in ‘fair market’ discussions with Venezuela
Russia, Ukraine reach last-minute deal, avert gas cut
Ukraine president to meet Putin
Energy industries – Feb 13
Greenhouse pollution from Midwest refineries may soar 40%
Drilling rush in Rockies raises health, safety concerns
Shell VP, exploration: ‘No more easy oil’
Southeast Asia’s looming nuclear power industry
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 13
Does peak oil “make ordinary politics irrelevant”?
Monastery throws switch on green initiatives
Generation Green taking on parents to help them save the planet
How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village
Eco-villages prove to be sustainable
Clean energy redemption?
Reality aside, what could be better than the cleantech boom? Abundant renewable energy, no serious interruptions to shopping, saved from the perils of global warming, life goes on!
Hard times – Feb 12
Energy crisis hits Tajik press
As Asia food prices bite, analysts warn of worse to come
Rainfall shortages threaten Costa Rica power
Black smoke over China (book reviews)
Keeping scientists in line – Feb 12
Congress: Science for sale?
Keep separate science, politics
DOE erases ‘most successful’ weatherization program from website
Climate scientist they could not silence
‘Muzzle’ placed on Canadian scientists
Oil producers – Feb 12
Bolivia’s irresistible reserves
Clouds on Kurdistan’s horizon
Omani company’s output to decline for eighth year
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 12
10 ways recession can help the environment
Re-Energize Texas summit – if Texas can do it…
The one-tonne-carbon lifestyle
Making conventions environmentally friendly
Don’t let the green grass fool you (Suburbanites awake)
Peak oil and The Limits to Growth: two parallel stories
Marion King Hubbert and Jay Wright Forrester, working independently, set the basis for a new science. They were not the first to study the limits of the world’s resources. But they were the first to do that using mathematical models that could be extrapolated into the future.
Venezuela and Exxon – Feb 12
Venezuela threatens to cut US oil
Venezuela moves bank accounts after Exxon embargo
Daniel Ortega brands Exxon’s move as a US attack
Chavez’s big oil bluff
Oilsands can’t fill gap if Venezuela cuts oil
