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Published 22 May 2012 | viewed 2,690 times
It is rare in diplomatic circles for governments to speak bluntly, particularly in the Orient, where manners are highly prized.The exceptions to this rule are…
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Published 21 May 2012 | viewed 832 times
First, the bad news for China’s economic miracle.According to a quarterly report issued last month by China’s China Electricity Council (CEC), some parts of China…
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Published 16 May 2012 | viewed 1,651 times
Britain and Argentina have been feuding over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands for 180 years, and 1982 fought a brief but vicious war over…
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Published 15 May 2012 | viewed 2,184 times
To hear Carlos Pascual, the U.S. State Department’s special envoy on international energy tell it, “The United States values Canada as its most important energy…
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Published 13 May 2012 | viewed 1,428 times
One of the most feared words in every oilman’s lexicon is “nationalization.” On 16 April Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner did exactly that with the…
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Published 11 May 2012 | viewed 1,499 times
On 5 May Hokkaido Electric Power shut down the No. 3 reactor at the utility's Tomari Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the Hokkaido village of…
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Published 08 May 2012 | viewed 1,521 times
Renewable power faces a number of hurdles in gaining wide-scale acceptance.The first is the world’s commitment to “traditional” power sources, in which trillions of dollars…
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Published 05 May 2012 | viewed 1,209 times
On 22 April Mohamed Shoeb, Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company head said that his company unilaterally abrogated its contract to ship natural gas to Israel…
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Published 02 May 2012 | viewed 1,445 times
The biggest economic story of the 21st century has been the dramatic emergence in the last decade of the “BRICs” – Brazil, Russia, India and…
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Published 30 April 2012 | viewed 1,585 times
On 11 March 2011 TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power plant was rattled by an offshore 9.0 on the Richter scale earthquake. The tremor subsequently generated a…
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Published 27 April 2012 | viewed 963 times
Pakistan is deep in a power crisis. Quite aside from distressing domestic consumers, the country’s episodic and erratic electrical generating capacity is also nobbling Pakistani…
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Published 26 April 2012 | viewed 2,126 times
Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for 41 years before an armed “Arab Spring” uprising last year drove him from power, leading to his death in October…
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Published 25 April 2012 | viewed 1,821 times
While the European Union remains preoccupied with the slow unraveling of its economy, in Britain the conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron is grappling…
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Published 24 April 2012 | viewed 2,075 times
It is one of Wall Street’s worst-kept secrets that Chesapeake Energy, America’s second largest producer of natural gas, is short of cash, facing an estimated…
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Published 23 April 2012 | viewed 2,376 times
Like Lazarus arising from the grave, or a vampire pulling a stake out of his chest, the controversial Keystone LX pipeline, designed to transport Alberta’s…
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Published 20 April 2012 | viewed 2,439 times
The process of hydraulic fracturing is a mining technique which uses injected fluid to propagate fractures in a rock layer to release hydrocarbon deposits that…
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Published 20 April 2012 | viewed 2,576 times
Given that the Keystone XL pipeline is apparently dead in the water at least until after the next presidential election, Canada is seeking new export…
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Published 18 April 2012 | viewed 1,406 times
As Iran struggles to mitigate the economic and political effects of the sanctions imposed on it by the international community over its nuclear activities, Tehran…
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Published 17 April 2012 | viewed 1,125 times
Energy and nationalist politics are a volatile mix.
In the Second/Third World, multinational energy companies seeking new frontiers prey upon nations’ inability to develop indigenous…
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Published 16 April 2012 | viewed 1,189 times
First, the bad news.
On 15 April, insurgent forces in Afghanistan began unexpected attacks on embassies, a supermarket, a hotel and the parliament in the…
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