Sanctions on Russian copper, aluminum,…
Aluminum prices continue to rally,…
Tesla is laying off over…
It has been estimated by the US Geological Survey that the Arctic could contain 90 billion barrels of oil equivalent, and as drilling technologies have improved the race to access…
In 2005, ex-President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act which included the Renewable Fuels Standard, requiring oil companies to add ethanol to their gasoline, and whilst running…
Hydrogen fuel cells have the potential to replace batteries completely and offer a clean alternative power source for portable devices. Unfortunately development of the technology has been slow and no…
Investors and shareholders are relaxing after Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it will begin selling off assets to try and offset the huge investments it has made in new…
The EIA expects gasoline prices to decline further in 2014 according to the Short Term Energy and Winters Fuel Outlook released today: • The weekly U.S. average…
Pirate activity in the South China Sea around Singapore seems to be on the up in recent years, and two tankers have been taken in the last month from the…
Claims that the shale boom in the US will eventually see the country become energy self-sufficient seems to have received its biggest blow yet after the International Energy Agency, in…
After EDF have become the fifth of the big six energy companies to raise their prices in the UK this year, Energy UK, the country’s energy industry trading body,…
For some time now the Kurdish region of northern Iraq has defied the central government in Baghdad by declaring independence and working to create its own government, oil company, and…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking to ban trans fats from food production for safety reasons, citing the additives as a significant public health concern.
Engineers researching at Duke University, North Carolina, have just unveiled a new invention that allows them to harvest background electromagnetic radiation and convert it into electricity, and the amazing…
Large criminal organisations are always on the lookout for the next opportunity to rip people off and make a quick bit of easy money. The disaster at the Fukushima power…
James West has written a fun and interesting article on climatedesk.org that looks into some of the funkier climate change mitigation designs recently issued patents by the US patent office.…
In order to show their willingness to comply, after yet another round of talks finishes without a deal, the Iranian Atomic Agency has agreed to allow UN inspectors to…
At the beginning of the year Ukraine took its first major steps to reducing its dependence on Russian natural gas imports, by signing a $10 billion shale gas deal…
Despite having lost a war in the 1980s after trying to invade the Falkland Islands, and just this year suffering a unanimous vote by the islanders themselves to remain…
Earlier in the year I wrote an article about the Obama Administration’s decision to allow Energy Fuels Resources to reopen an old uranium mine positioned just next to the…
Tensions are rising and discussions are becoming more intense as it appears that parties involved in the talks with Iran may be making good progress to a first deal that…
Madagascar, the island nation off the east coast of Mozambique, boasts rich mineral deposits, and for a few years in the mid-2000s it attracted attention from foreign investors, such as…
Centrica, the owner of British Gas, announced on Wednesday that it had agreed a new £4.4 billion deal with Qatar for the supply of natural gas up until 2018.…