The owner of Heathrow airport, BAA, has said that a tax on the aviation industry would not have the desired effect on the environment but would cause inconvenience to many people by pricing them out of aeroplanes. Instead, Stephen Nelson,...
The populist Russian newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, ran the headline yesterday: "Russia takes first place in oil output rankings". The story was based on OPEC figures showing that Russia is now extracting more oil than Saudi Arabia. The figures reflect a...
Tens of thousands of animals and plants could become extinct within the coming decades as a direct result of climate change, according to a new study. Scientists believe that if atmospheric levels of CO2 double - as expected by 2100...
Now that Sy Hersh has exposed the administration's plans to attack Iran (call it "reverse stovepiping"), civic leaders like Jesse Jackson are calling for a halt to the madness of would-be king George. In yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times, Jackson said: “Here...
Renewable energy sill only accounts for 14 percent of the energy consumed in the world today, according to new figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA). This compares to six percent for nuclear power and a massive 80 percent for...
OK, I don’t really love expensive gasoline. A better title would be “I Hate Cheap Gasoline.” Illogical? Perhaps, but not compared to the hysterical and incoherent reaction of some of my fellow Americans, both politicians and average citizens, to $3...
Great article from Business Week Magazine about how Exxon attacked Greenpeace through an organisation called Public Interest Watch. Although this was recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, what was not reported was the role of the shadowy PR firm...
The news reported in the scientific journal Nature this month that trees might be account for about 10 to 30 per cent of the potent greenhouse gas methane that is entering the atmosphere is a gift to climate skeptics and...
Check out this AP article re: Chevron in Ecuador and Nigeria. Quotes from Oil Change, Earthrights, and Amazon Watch. By TERENCE CHEA The Associated Press Sunday, January 1, 2006; 8:32 PM SAN FRANCISCO -- A young boy holds out a...
So three days into the New Year and we have already had our first energy crisis, with a spat between Russia and Ukraine over gas prices. What started as a regional argument soon rapidly spread affecting Italy, Hungary, France, Germany...
