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....
Do you know what today is? Of course you do. The 9th October is Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day in the US. But it is also the day of the year that humanity begins to rake up an ecological overdraft...
A US congressional committee is to look at a gasfield development deal between the China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) and Iran to determine if US sanctions are called for against the Chinese company, Congressman Tom Lantos has said. Iran...
It's working – if current trends hold, this next Congress will be the least beholden to the oil industry of any since 1990! Significantly more members of Congress are clean, and less money overall has been accepted than at any...
Washington’s political landscape is changing fast. Rumsfeld has gone, just days after Bush said he would never sack him and now it looks like the Democrats have taken the Senate as well. Just days after being a Republican-hate figure, the...
The New York Times today takes issue with President Bush’s call to pass “bipartisan energy legislation” before this Congress finishes – saying that instead the “House and Senate should limit their work in this final session to as few measures...
Whilst Sir Nicholas Stern’s report continues to receive blanket media coverage in the UK, Washington remains largely uninterested. Look at the New York Times and the Stern report is mentioned half-way through a report entitled “Budgets Falling in Race to...
Greenland’s ice-caps may be melting at an alarming rate due to climate change, but that is not stopping the country issuing further oil and gas licenses. Twelve companies have advanced to the prequalification stage under the country’s latest licensing round....
No surprises here really. Iraq is sliding into civil war, the dollar may be sliding towards a crisis, the Bush Administration may be sliding towards the history books, but least it’s its belligerent and blinkered attitude towards climate change isn’t...
Continuing our Latin American theme today that shows the influence Chavez is having on the region. The Bolivian President Evo Morales has finally signed contracts giving the government control over foreign energy companies' operations, completing a process begun May 1...
