Ok let’s get back to reality –as if to underline how great is the challenge on climate change the UN has just released figures showing that gas emissions by the industrialised world are still rising, with the United States firmly...
In a move that has echoes of a year ago, Russia has announced that it is to double the price of gas to its neighbour Georgia. The move is being seen as part of its increasingly bitter campaign of retribution...
In this day and age, energy security does not just mean securing enough oil and gas supplies it means protecting them too. In these days of heightened terror alerts the Sunday Times has reported how “a special armed police force...
There are always two ways to tell a story. Read the BBC this morning and you would believe that the Climate talks in Nairobi reached agreement. The headline on the BBC’s website is that “Nairobi climate talks end in deal”....
Independent investment analysts “Investment U” are promoting Alberta’s oil sands as a “win-win” investment opportunity. They say: “the oil sands will soon be the single-largest source of foreign oil for the U.S. – even bigger than Saudi Arabia”. Oil producers...
Once again here is the irony. Asia’s economies are booming. Energy consumption is set to sour. Much of this will be conventional energy, including fossil fuels. This will lead to climate change, that will devastate the region. So the more...
It’s an old political cliché that we could be witnessing history in the making, but today in the Supreme Court in Washington that might just happen. We might just be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Bush Administration’s...
A report commissioned by the UK government and written by former British Airways chief Sir Rod Eddington, has concluded that motorists should be asked to pay to drive on the nation's road network. Eddington examined the possibilities for road pricing,...
Something of British feel about the blog today. Struggling to suddenly promote his green credentials in the wake of the Stern report, UK Chancellor, Gordon Brown will outline plans for a carbon trading scheme, more expensive petrol and doubling of...
Slowly but surely people are beginning to talk about a taboo- what happens when the oil runs out. What are we going to do? How are we going to live? How will we feed, power and house ourselves? How can...
