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Huge’ Gas Field Found off Brazil

Brazil says it has found another “elephant.” This time it is a huge natural gas field called, Jupiter, which could match the recently discovered Tupi oil field in size. The field has been found a short distance off Rio de...

US Government: “Drilling Won’t Hurt Polar Bears”

The directors of two Interior Department agencies said yesterday they're confident oil and gas exploration in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska can proceed without threatening polar bears that depend on the sea ice. The officials appeared before a Congressional committee...

Nigeria: Government Caves in Over Gas Flaring (Again)

Last October the Government of Nigeria gave the multinational oil companies in the country a firm ultimatum: “The Federal Government policy to stop gas flaring commences on Jan. 1, 2008, and any company which flares gas after that time would...

Nader: Big Oil’s Profit and Plunder

While many impoverished American families are shivering in the winter cold for lack of money to pay the oil baron their exorbitant price for home heating oil, ex-oil man, George W. Bush sleeps in a warm White House and relishes...

Alaska Spill May Signal New Corrosion Problems

Another day, another oil spill, this time on an Alaskan pipeline. Alaska officials are investigating the cause of a pipeline rupture on the North Slope earlier this week that they say could be a sign of more widespread corrosion problems...

Eight hours and 180 degrees

Auto makers finally face higher fuel efficiency standards in the US. Sort of. After years of holding out against anything to do with climate change, President George Bush finally signed into law an energy bill establishing higher fuel-economy standards for...

Friedman on Bali: “What Was That All About?”

More fall out from Bali, this time as an op-ed in the New York Times. The paper’s foreign affairs columnist, Thomas Friedman, writes: “As readers of this column know, I have a rule that there is a simple way to...

Another Oil Spill – This Time in Indonesia

This is getting silly. There has been yet another oil spill. Rescuers are trying to contain an oil slick from a small tanker that capsized at a port in central Indonesia yesterday, after it was loaded up with more than...

The Day After….

(Bali, Dec. 16) A day after the dramatic ending of the Bali climate talks, many are wondering if the result was indeed best outcome possible given the circumstances. The US was brought back to the fold, but at the cost...

And Happy Xmas to Big Coal as Well..

And its Happy Xmas to Big Coal too. Britain plans to build eight new coal power stations as part of the country's efforts to address its looming energy crisis. Although it is an early Christmas present to Big Coal, it...