RT | February 27, 2015 The contracts with Russia’s biggest oil company Rosneft damaged by the West’s anti-Russian sanctions have cost ExxonMobil $1 billion, the company said in its annual report. “In 2014, the European Union and United States imposed sanctions relating to the Russian energy sector. In compliance with the sanctions and all general […]
By Anne van Schaik & Oliver Tickell | Ecologist | February 19, 2015 A small community in Uganda is challenging a UN-backed international oil palm venture that has expropriated small farmers and obliterated an entire forest on a Lake Victoria island to establish a vast plantation. Three years after the grab, Friends of the Earth groups […]
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | January 21, 2015 I would like to address this statement made by the President: Well, I’m not a scientist, either. But you know what — I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all […]
teleSUR | January 14, 2015 Australian company Petrel Energy has announced that it has found and certified the existence of 20 potential oil deposits in the north of Uruguay, the only country in the region that imports all the hydrocarbons that it consumes. Uruguayan state petrol enterprise ANCAP said that the certification includes “20 conventional […]
Press TV – January 14, 2015 Official figures show the energy bills of the poorest 10 percent of British households have grown at almost twice as the average rate in the country under the Tory-led Coalition government. The research by the House of Commons Library published on Wednesday showed electricity bills for the affected group […]
There Are More Oil Seeps Than All The Tankers On Earth By Robert Cooke – Newsday – April 10, 2005 Deep underwater, and deeper underground, scientists see surprising hints that gas and oil deposits can be replenished, filling up again, sometimes rapidly. Although it sounds too good to be true, increasing evidence from the Gulf […]
By Marlo Lewis | Cooler Heads | December 19, 2014 Earlier this week, economist Roger Bezdek gave a presentation at the Ronald Reagan Building titled “Carbon Dioxide: Social Cost or Social Benefit?” Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank covered the event and published a short review titled “The new climate denialism: More carbon dioxide is a good thing.” […]
Thomas Gold | January 1997 Natural gas and oil are widely considered to originate on Earth from the chemical evolution of biological debris. A view, widespread in earlier times and entertained by Mendeleev among others, was instead that these substances originated in materials laid down in the formation process of the Earth, and later percolated […]
Press TV – November 12, 2014 A report says that a pensioner will die from cold weather every seven minutes in Britain this winter, amid soaring fuel bills. The Age UK charity released the report on Tuesday, saying that, this winter, 25,000 elderly people in England and Wales will die as a result of the […]
politics.hu | November 6, 2014 The United States is putting Hungary under great pressure due to its objections to the Russian-backed South Stream pipeline and the expansion of the Paks nuclear power station, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Munich on Thursday evening, after an address delivered at the Hanns Seidel Foundation. At a question […]
