Saudi Arabia Pledges to Break “Dangerous Addiction to Oil”
If you read the news yesterday you would be forgiven for missing something momentous. When the definitive book about the oil age is finally written, yesterday will be marked as significant.
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EPA’s Methane Rule is welcome, but NOT a license to grow gas production
Forecast gas production growth will bust the climate, even with no methane leakage.
BreakFree2016: Moving Towards “Zero Coal”
Over the last two weeks, in excess of 30,000 people have undertaken 20 hugely significant acts of disobedience on six continents as part of the #Breakfree2016 protests against fossil fuels.
EIA AEO 2016 Early Release: a quick overview
We give a quick overview of the EIA's early release of the AEO 2016, and recommend you take their advice. This is not a forecast.
What do Japan and the tobacco industry have in common?
[caption id="attachment_23204" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo: Alex Doukas[/caption] “Cigarettes are good for you.” The tobacco industry successfully peddled this myth for decades. Today, nobody would believe them, and the boldness of the lie seems staggering in retrospect. But Japan, under the...
A Record Year for Renewables
The renewable revolution is gathering apace according to new research. Last year was an “extraordinary” record year for the sector, with “the largest global capacity additions seen to date.”
Fire Chief: “Its Insane” to Ship Bakken Crude by Rail
The safety of crude by rail trains looks set to rocket up the political agenda again after a Union Pacific train carrying volatile Bakken crude derailed and exploded in Oregon's beautiful Columbia River gorge on Friday.
“They’re unsafe, they’ll never be safe”
Just as the political opposition to crude by rail trains is growing in the US over the latest crash along the Colombia River Gorge, so is the public opposition.
Should North Americans subsidize oil, gas, and coal for another 10 years?
[caption id="attachment_23425" align="alignright" width="300"] The clock starts now: we must end subsidies to oil, gas, and coal by 2020.[/caption] This week, the leaders of Mexico, Canada, and the United States met in Ottawa for the North American Leaders’ Summit. In...
US Tops Reserves, But Growth Restricted by “Funding Constraints”
According to a new analysis the US now holds more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia, the first time this has happened. The crux though will be whether the US shale industry can access the finance to carry on...