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On March 5, the New York Times published a front-page story called “Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells.”  Getting new oil from “played out” wells was the thrust of the piece; as the price of oil rises, it...

The “Great Global Warming Swindle” that showed on Channel Four in the UK last week and tried to argue that carbon dioxide emissions are not to blame for global warming, is it turns out, just a swindle. One of the...

The British Government has denied claims it intervened to influence the shaping of Iraq's controversial oil law, which pretty much everyone but the American and British government believes will hand over control of the country's oil supply to foreign multinationals....

Oh yeah? Don't believe a word of it. You may have thought the long debate over whether humans are warming the Earth was finally over, especially given the recent warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But today Channel...

Now the Independent newspaper has launched into biofuels with a front page lead in today’s paper. The biofuel bonanza is set to reach a landmark this week the US President, George Bush, arrives in Brazil to kick-start the creation of...

UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair will complete a U-turn over green energy next week when he supports an ambitious 20 per cent mandatory target for renewables at an EU Summit. Blair is said to have overruled Alistair Darling, the Trade...

Despite growing unrest and violence in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, and daily kidnappings Nigeria’s Oil Minister Edmund Daukoru has said that “there is reason to believe the worst is over” for Africa's Number one producer. "It is a very, very...

Good article in the New York Daily News about Iraq’s new oil law. “Throughout nearly four years of the daily mayhem and carnage in Iraq, President Bush and his aides in the White House have scoffed at even the slightest...

Leading world politicians and industrialists have reached a new, non-binding agreement at a meeting in the United States on tackling climate change. The two-day meeting brought together legislators from countries including the Group of Eight rich nations plus Brazil, China,...

We have blogged this story before, but it has fresh legs. UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair will hold a mini-summit with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin tomorrow amid signs that he really wants to crown his 10-year premiership...