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In the battle against climate change and carbon emissions policy makers tend to focus on the supply side of things. They concentrate emission reduction efforts…
In April 2012, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner illegally seized Respol’s 51% stake in the South American energy company YPF SA, in order to…
Part of Europe’s plans to reduce its dependence on Russian natural gas imports, include the development of a giant gas field in Azerbaijan. The Austrian…
The fastest flying bird in the world is the White-throated Needletail. Generally living around Asia, Siberia, and Australia (depending on the time of the year),…
The UK Office for National Statistics has released data about the UK’s energy sector.In 2011 imports of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and…
The Daily Telegraph wrote an article on Tuesday claiming that Total is interested in UK shale prospects and has “held talks with several companies about…
For years researchers have been looking for a method to convert carbon dioxide directly into methanol, in order to create a new source of fuel,…
The anti-dumping tariffs levied against Chinese solar manufacturers exporting to Europe have forced them to finally expand into a new market; Africa.€21 billion worth of…
The British government’s Department of Energy & Climate Change has announced that a deal will be signed on Wednesday that will see Abu Dhabi invest…
The largest refiner in Asia, China’s Sinopec Group, has announced that it will buy Marathon Oil Corp’s share in an Angolan offshore oil and gas…
Uganda has announced that it could start producing commercial oil by 2016, great news for the East African nation who is looking to reduce its…
A small Canadian energy company may soon be about to install thorium-fuelled nuclear reactors in Indonesia and Chile, in order to generate energy for the…
After a meeting with the Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli, Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced that his country’s leading oil producer is preparing a…
Due to concern over the possibility that the Federal Bank will end stimulus, and the worsening economic situation in China, commodity prices have fallen across…
President Barack Obama has given a speech in Berlin in which he praised Germany and Europe for leading the way in developing a greener economy,…
The latest Energy and Water appropriations bill, the fifth of its kind to be presented before the Appropriations Committee, has outraged Democrats, who have begun…
A report compiled by the WWF and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CPD) has found that by cutting its emissions by an average of three percent…
Enrique Pena Nieto, the President of Mexico, has announced that he is trying to gather support for a proposal to end state-owned Pemex’s monopoly of…
The development of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling has enabled a boom in the production of shale gas in the US. Supporters of the fuel…
Robin Meige, the director of strategy at the European Commission’s DG Environment, put a bit of a downer on Europe’s plan to use hydraulic fracturing…