Solutions & sustainability – Sept 28
Burning Buried Sunshine
A step in the right direction
Interview With Locavore Jessica Prentice
Interview With Worldwatch Institutes Christopher Flavin
North Bay Energy Transition and Climate Change
Natural Gas
Geopolitics – Sept 28
Confronting the world’s new petro-powers
Russia may re-direct new gas supplies from US to Europe
Saudi Arabia begins looking east
Russia calls IAEA’s low-enriched uranium reserves plan “interesting but dangerous”
Biofuels – Sept 27
Jatropha fuelled car tours Indonesia
France prepares for post-oil fuels
Uganda to make fuel blending compulsory
Close the CAFE loophole
Oil Industry – Sept 22
Executive sees price threat to oil sands projects
Costs of exploration soar
Auditors say US Dept. Interior corruptly favouring oil companies
Geopolitics – Sept 22
US controls price of crude oil
Brazil, Bolivia to address energy crisis
EU fears grow over dependence on Russia
Geopolitics – Sept 17
Yemen foils attacks on oil plants
Sinopec set for 51% stake in Yadavaran
Putin declines EU’s energy charter
Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
Oil and gas – Sept 10
Gulf oil find won’t alter prices now
Total chief says world will find oil target tough
Shell: cost, lack of gas are slowing Saudi plans
Oil projects idle as supply of gear, staff runs dry
Discovery – Sept 6
Chevron bullish on deep GOM discovery
BG finds more gas in North Sea
Other Energy – Sept 6
Russian agency sues to stop Shell on Sakhalin
Cost blowout hits Woodside LNG
Ghana: Power Crisis Worries Gold Miners
Turkey offers $130bn in energy investments
Clarification of the Huge Chevron Gulf Oil Discovery
The September 5th announcement by Chevron and Devon and Statoil of the huge Gulf of Mexico discovery should be clarified. The announcement claims that the discovery could increase US proven reserves of oil by as much as 50%. However, the total amounts are highly speculative.
Urgent action is needed to avert the looming oil wars
While the world’s attention is focused on the aftermath of the Israel-Hizbollah war, more far-reaching and dangerous threats to global security are growing dramatically. In July, Samuel Bodman, US energy secretary, said that for the foreseeable future “we’re going to see oil demand exceeding supply”.
Senate Fiddles While America Sizzles
In the midst of the midsummer heat wave that scorched the eastern United States, the Senate voted 71-25 to allow oil and gas drilling in a section of the Gulf of Mexico now off-limits to such activity.
