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U.S. natural gas inventories higher than at any point in the nation's history
NEW YORK - Natural gas prices have dropped by more than 12 percent in the past month as the country continues to sip at its energy reserves and a balmy November allowed homeowners to leave the heat off.
...The ...
Energy/Transportation
New York
As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from becoming irreversible? Can we close coal-fired power plants in time to ...
Energy/Transportation
Gordon Brown
Greenland
The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S.
public and society is unraveling at an increased rate.
...Considering our current economy, what will happen when another extreme weather event like Hurricane Katrina hits a major US city? What will happen when storms, droughts and fires ...
Energy/Transportation
After a fall in demand during the depths of the crisis, the IEA now expects global demand for oil to be 84.2 million barrels a day this year and more than 86.2 million barrels a day next year.
Then there is the looming problem of Peak Oil - the stage when demand outstrips the world's capacity ...
Energy/Transportation
According to data compiled by the UN, the Global Footprint Network, and Dr. William Rees at the University of British Columbia, total human consumption already exceeds the Earth's capacity by 30 per cent. This is known as biological 'overshoot'. The UN estimates that most natural services to ...
Energy/Transportation
France has for decades been fiercely proud of its world-beating nuclear industry but is now having to import electricity from its neighbours and could face blackouts this winter.
News of the imports prompted the environmental group Greenpeace to say Wednesday that this was further proof that ...
Energy/Transportation
France
An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online.
Global warming skeptics are seizing on ...
Energy/Transportation
The e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers.
this scandal could well be the greatest in modern science. These alleged emails supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory suggest:
Conspiracy, ...
Energy/Transportation
Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: study
(AFP) MOSCOW Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.
According to the ...
Energy/Transportation
Russia
Scientists have uncovered a large expanse of "corrosive" water in the Canadian Arctic that is putting the marine food web at risk.
The waters have been so altered by climate change and melting sea ice that plankton, shellfish and fish may have trouble building their protective shells and ...
Energy/Transportation
In an essay, written by Richard Heinberg entitled Should We Prop-up a Dying Economy (19 October 2009), he argues that the economists and the people who follow physical science disagree sharply about where this economy is going. Peak Oil, whether it is present now or just years away, will mean ...
Energy/Transportation
WILMINGTON, Del. -- Refineries from New Mexico to New Jersey are under severe economic pressure because of falling demand for fuel, with a number of facilities shutting down in recent months.
Valero Energy Corp., which shuttered a major refinery over the summer, said Friday it would ...
Energy/Transportation
New Mexico
New Jersey
Delaware
Ocean Energy Institute founder and energy investment banker Matthew Simmons gave an hour-long keynote address at the Island Institute's 2009 Sustainable Island Living conference on Saturday morning at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. Simmons titled his talk "The Gulf of Maine: What Lies Beyond ...
Energy/Transportation
Energy Crisis
Ocean Energy Institute
Matthew Simmons
Maine
Cuba gets plenty of oil from Venezuela. So why is it adopting "extreme measures" to avoid blackouts?
...Cuba is one of more than a dozen nations in the region that receive oil shipments on favorable credit terms as part of the PetroCaribe agreement. Cuba pays Venezuela back for some of the ...
Energy/Transportation
Cuba
Venezuela
With less than three weeks remaining before negotiators gather in Copenhagen to hammer out a global response to climate change, a rapid-fire succession of countries are unveiling national plans that serve as opening bids for reining in heat-trapping emissions.
The list of what is on the ...
Energy/Transportation
Yvo de Boer
Should the United States and China be teaming up on clean urban transportation systems instead of clean cars? After the announcement of a suite of new energy partnerships between China and the United States, I sought feedback on the electric vehicle project from Lee Schipper, an energy and ...
Energy/Transportation
China
United States
Alternative Energy
California
A report released this month by the United Nations Environment Program and the Environmental Law Institute calls for stronger international laws to protect the environment during times of war.
The report found that although existing laws of war including aspects of the Geneva Convention ...
Energy/Transportation
Colbert Report
The number of low-income households cut off by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. after they fell behind on their utility bills jumped 75 percent this year, according to a state report released Thursday.
For the 12 months that ended in August, 91,393 low-income households lost their utility service, ...
Energy/Transportation
Below is a summary of my presentation, The Renewables Gap, from the ASPO 2009 conference. The intent of my presentation was to highlight the political challenge of affecting a societal transition to renewable sources of energy. In particular, I focus on wind and solar, though it seems to me ...
Energy/Transportation
Alternative Energy
Former L.A. narcotics detective turned whistle-blower turned radical critical thinker Michael Ruppert is probably not the kind of guy you would want to meet face-to-face in the basement of an abandoned meat-packing plant in Los Angeles. But that's just where we encounter him in Collapse , an ...
