Environment – Nov 20
Taking On Goliath (gas industry) in the West
China’s Yellow River in crisis
China’s environment dangerously degraded: official
Japan shrinks
Natural Gas
Russia – Nov 17
The uneasy Russia-E.U. energy relationship
Video: Sakhalin’s Black Tears
Head of Russian oil fund shot dead in Moscow
Recent assassinations shake confidence in Putin’s system
Russia – Nov 15
Georgia warns EU it could face Russia gas hikes too
Oil deals enhance China-Russia energy links
Gazprom extends deal with Italy’s ENI
Russia faces gas shortfall, leaked report claims
Nato fears Russian plans for ‘gas Opec’
US concerned Russia conserving oil reserves
Tsunami alert
Russia – Nov 11
Confidence in Russian deliveries of energy /
Winter energy crunch looming for Russia
Peak oil – Nov 9
ASPO-USA conference presentations online /
Our natural gas treadmill (ASPO talk) /
EB interviewed about recent energy stories /
Sad news from Michael Ruppert and FTW /
Ruppert: Evolution – a matter of community
U.K. energy policy – Nov 8
UK ‘failed to save gas reserves’ /
Energy minister: Era of cheap energy over /
Carbon trading may need new emissions targets to go global
U.S. energy policy – Nov 8
Interview with Michael Klare – Iraq marks ‘turning point’ of U.S. empire /
Complacency feared as NG prices drop /
Lower pump prices fuel political conspiracy theories
Russia – Nov 7
Russia set to double gas prices for Georgia /
Russia reacts angrily to U.S. warnings over Baltic Sea gas pipeline /
Russia faces chilling prospect of winter short of gas
Are You Voting for the Terminator’s Terminals?
If you are a California voter, you might have heard about the big celebrity protests in Malibu a few weeks ago. Led by actor Pierce Brosnan,
everyone from Barbra Striesand to Sting showed up to protest a planned LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminal that BHP Billiton wants to build 14 miles
off the coast at Oxnard.
Draining Canada first
Sating America’s prodigious energy appetite depends on the continued availability of Canadian energy sources. How long can Canada go on behaving like America’s most compliant energy colony?
Report on a talk at the ASPO-USA conference in Boston.
If we build it, will they come?
The “we” refers to North America. The “it” refers to liquified natural gas (LNG) ports. And, the “they” refers to LNG tankers from exporting countries. Unfortunately, the answer to the question is “probably not,” at least not in the numbers we would like them to come.
(Report from the recent ASPO conference)
Energy policy – Oct 29
Morales’ gas nationalization complete /
Bolivia waiting for nationalization /
China limits exports of energy intensive commodities /
Miliband calls on UK Chancellor to devise new menu of eco-taxes
