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India Ratchets Up Its Renewable Energy Installations

India Ratchets Up Its Renewable Energy Installations

India has ratcheted up renewable energy installations…

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How Long Will the Gold Rally Last?

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Sir Richard Branson Pledges to Give Half his Fortune to Support the Environment

Sir Richard Branson Pledges to Give Half his Fortune to Support the Environment

Feb 21, 2013 at 16:36 | Joao Peixe

Environmental initiatives are set to receive a huge boost in the form of at least half of Sir Richard Branson’s fortune.The billionaire, who made his billion as the…

UN Hope for Success with New Offer in Latest Round of Talks with Iran

UN Hope for Success with New Offer in Latest Round of Talks with Iran

Feb 21, 2013 at 16:35 | Joao Peixe

Talks between the five nations of the United Nations Security Council (and Germany) and Iran are set to begin again next week in Kazakhstan; the last round of talks which…

Which Countries have the Lowest Gas Prices

Which Countries have the Lowest Gas Prices

Feb 20, 2013 at 16:40 | James Burgess

Everyone complains about the cost of gasoline, yet we all pay different prices. In the US the cost of gasoline is far lower than those in Europe, and in the…

Pollution Laws Threaten to Drop Britain into an Energy Crisis

Pollution Laws Threaten to Drop Britain into an Energy Crisis

Feb 20, 2013 at 16:39 | Charles Kennedy

European pollution laws have meant that some of the oldest dirtiest coal power plants in Britain have had to shut down. With little excess capacity and few new large projects…

BP's Reputation Set to Take a Beating as it Begins its Trial against the Feds

BP's Reputation Set to Take a Beating as it Begins its Trial against the Feds

Feb 20, 2013 at 16:37 | Joao Peixe

BP is entering the final chapter of the aftermath caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 as it prepares to go to trial against the federal government next…

Railway Jam Prevents Oil Products Reaching Russia's Eastern Ports

Railway Jam Prevents Oil Products Reaching Russia's Eastern Ports

Feb 20, 2013 at 16:36 | Charles Kennedy

The Russian government has been given a sharp reminder of the necessity to invest heavily in the nation’s tired infrastructure, especially if it intends to increase exports to Asia, after…

BHP profits Fall 58% in Second Half of 2012

BHP profits Fall 58% in Second Half of 2012

Feb 20, 2013 at 16:33 | MINING.com

The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP)(LSE: BLT)(NYSE: BHP) reported Tuesday its profits had plunged 58% and revenues declined 14% during the last half of 2012.Attributable net…

How will Baghdad React as Gazprom Neft Sign New Oil Contracts with KRG?

How will Baghdad React as Gazprom Neft Sign New Oil Contracts with KRG?

Feb 19, 2013 at 16:31 | Joao Peixe

Baghdad has long now claimed that only it has the authority to issue oil and gas contracts to energy companies that wish to work in Iraq, even going so far…

Bloomberg Analysts State China will Never Reach its Shale Gas Goals

Bloomberg Analysts State China will Never Reach its Shale Gas Goals

Feb 19, 2013 at 16:30 | Charles Kennedy

China hopes that it can meet its growing energy demands by exploiting its huge shale gas reserves, much in the same way that the US is aiming to achieve energy…

Nigeria Asks for Britain's Help to End Oil Theft

Nigeria Asks for Britain's Help to End Oil Theft

Feb 19, 2013 at 16:29 | James Burgess

Nigeria loses a fifth of its daily oil production of two million barrels to theft. International crime syndicates run huge operations which employ oil bunkering techniques where they hack into…

Solar Sponge to Help with Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Solar Sponge to Help with Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Feb 19, 2013 at 16:29 | Joao Peixe

Researchers at the Monash University, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSRIO) in Australia have discovered a brand new material that can be used to efficiently capture, store,…

Lockheed Predict Working Nuclear Fusion Reactor within 10 Years

Lockheed Predict Working Nuclear Fusion Reactor within 10 Years

Feb 18, 2013 at 17:09 | Joao Peixe

Nuclear fusion, the ultimate power source, the energy of the future’ that is how it has been described, yet the major problem is that so far it has been virtually…

Does Hugo Chavez’s Return to Venezuela Herald the End of his Reign?

Does Hugo Chavez’s Return to Venezuela Herald the End of his Reign?

Feb 18, 2013 at 17:08 | Charles Kennedy

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez disappeared from the public eye back in early December when he travelled to Cuba for an operation regarding the cancer that riddles his body. Last week…

Vertical Forests Being Built in Milan to Battle Smog

Vertical Forests Being Built in Milan to Battle Smog

Feb 18, 2013 at 17:07 | James Burgess

In an effort to reduce inner city smog without sacrificing valuable real estate, a residential block/vertical forest is being constructed in the heart of Milan.The design, by Italian…

Do Wind Farms Change Local Weather Patterns?

Do Wind Farms Change Local Weather Patterns?

Feb 18, 2013 at 17:03 | Joao Peixe

Wind turbines provide a large proportion of the world’s renewable energy, yet they also face opposition, mostly due to claims that they cause deaths to birds that fly through the…

Is the Chinese Recovery for Real?

Is the Chinese Recovery for Real?

Feb 18, 2013 at 17:02 | Editorial Dept

I still do not believe that the Chinese “recovery” is for real:Chinese credit issuance surged to a record high in January on the back of a boom in…

President Obama Stands up to Congress over Clean Energy and Climate Change

President Obama Stands up to Congress over Clean Energy and Climate Change

Feb 14, 2013 at 16:57 | Joao Peixe

Forever a supporter of renewable energy and protecting the environment, President Barack Obama has always had to watch his plans thwarted by Republican opposition, and in response he has always…

Transocean Pleads Guilty to Deepwater Horizon Charges

Transocean Pleads Guilty to Deepwater Horizon Charges

Feb 14, 2013 at 14:07 | Charles Kennedy

The operator of the deep-water Horizon oil rig which blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico nearly three years ago has become the second company to plead guilty…

Exxon Mobil and Rosneft Sign Another Arctic Exploration Agreement

Exxon Mobil and Rosneft Sign Another Arctic Exploration Agreement

Feb 14, 2013 at 14:06 | Joao Peixe

Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM)and Rosneft have strengthened their partnership even further by completing an agreement that will give Exxon Mobil access to an extra 234,000 square miles in the Russian…

Statoil Steals Market Share from Gazprom with New Gas Pricing Strategy

Statoil Steals Market Share from Gazprom with New Gas Pricing Strategy

Feb 14, 2013 at 14:06 | James Burgess

The model has worked fine for many years, however oil prices are now at constantly high levels and the European utilities are starting to complain and pressure their suppliers to…

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