China: Hungry for Power (Part 2)
The human price of coal.
Fossil Fuels
Bush, Oil & Iraq: Some Truth at Last
Here we have former US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill disclosing that George Bush came into office planning to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and MSNBC polls its audience with the question, Did O’Neill Betray Bush?
China: Hungry for Power (Part 1)
Energy crisis threatens ‘world’s factory’
UK faces future without North Sea oil
North Sea oil, the precious resource that has contributed hundreds of billions of pounds to the UK economy, is slowly slipping into history — so should Britain panic?
Coal May Shine Again
US – When natural gas prices spike, coal begins to sparkle. Back in 1990, amendments to the Clean Air Act passed, and many environmentalists breathed easier. Toxic emissions would be drastically cut, and as a consequence, electric utilities began to increasingly rely on natural gas because of its low cost and emissions. Coal’s foes began numbering coal’s days
US Sec’y Abrahams in China: the Maneuvering Begins
Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said here Monday that China and the United States share broad prospects of cooperation in the field of energy.
Unity needed for Kiwi continuity
NEW ZEALAND – As this country continues hurtling towards the serious gas supply shortages predicted for 2005-06, commentators are hoping and praying for a less fractious and fragmented year than 2003.
U.S. regulators may look into Shell’s overstatement of oil reserves
Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s overstatement of its proven reserves of oil and natural gas by 20 percent may be enough to prompt an inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, an SEC spokesman said.
AUSTRALIA – Hopes of $50bn gas sale
“The US have only very recently become open about their energy requirements, and some say it’s as big a crisis, or potential crisis, as during the oil shocks,” says Australian Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane.
UK trade deficit widens amid falling oil exports
The surplus on trade in oil fell to just £202 billion from £235m in October.
Alaska Thaws, Complicating the Hunt for Oil
DEADHORSE, Alaska . Harry Bader slogged across a patch of America’s only Arctic shore, leaning into a late December gale that filled the midday twilight with blowing snow and sent the wind chill to 40 below.
Despite the weather, Mr. Bader, the state’s land manager for the oil-rich North Slope, was consumed with one thing – the warming climate. Oil-prospecting convoys in search of new deposits are allowed to crisscross the fragile tundra only when it is snowy and solid. But over three decades, rising temperatures have cut this frozen season in half, to 100 days from 200.
2020 Scenario: OPEC May Be Replaced
It’s 2020, and the energy ministers of the Organization of Gas-Exporting Countries, known as OGEC, the umbrella for the dozen or so nations which dominate the market, gather in Madrid for their annual get-together to determine production quotas and price levels for the new primary energy source that fuels the global economy , natural gas, or more specifically, liquefied natural gas, known as LNG.
