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Jun 27, 2011 at 08:24

The United States has some of the highest recoverable natural gas reserves in the world thanks to the controversial hydraulic fracturing process that breaks shale rock formations to release the…

Jan 16, 2012 at 21:35

The "New Class" in an old, popular investment vehicle Part 1:  A Comeback in the Making? The income trust game is back - just in a different form.

Jun 25, 2011 at 08:57

I’m surprised by the move by the President and the IEA. What’s this about? Is it about the price of oil? Before the announcement WTI was sitting around 95. That’s…

Jun 24, 2011 at 11:07

Natural gas futures extended losses on Thursday, tumbling to a five-week low after the U.S. Energy Information Administration said natural gas inventories rose more-than-expected last week. On the New York…

Jun 24, 2011 at 07:46

President Obama has declared that, a decade after Operation Enduring Freedom began, the first significant withdrawals of U.S. troops from that battered nation will begin, with 10,000 U.S. troops withdrawn…

Jun 24, 2011 at 07:39

BP recently released their highly respected annual Statistical Review of World Energy for 2011. Most of the news stories on the report have focused on the exceptionally strong growth…

Jun 24, 2011 at 07:35

Electric cars seem like the socially conscious, feel-good investment among environmentally friendly consumers. In corporate boardrooms, the innovation seemed well liked indeed. What’s not to like? Cars like the Nissan…

Jun 24, 2011 at 07:32

Many billions of dollars have been spent on large scale fusion efforts such as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore or ITER in France. But if the best use of…

Jun 24, 2011 at 07:30

Google and investment bank Citi have boosted their investments in the largest wind farm in the US. The companies will finance a second phase of the Alta Wind Energy Center…

Jun 24, 2011 at 07:26

Every day, when considering what to write about, I tell myself that I’m not singing enough praises about India. Then events demand that a topic more urgent be thrust upon…

Jun 23, 2011 at 15:26

Crude oil futures were down on Thursday, as a broadly stronger U.S. dollar and concerns over the U.S. economic outlook dragged prices lower.  On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light,…

Jun 23, 2011 at 07:50

Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspain and Central Asian energy reserves as the new “Great Game, except this time around, Russia is facing the U.S. rather…

Jun 23, 2011 at 07:43

Amidst the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan—that third-party scientific investigators are claiming is 30 times worse than Chernobyl—some countries seem to be coming to their senses and rethinking the cost…

Jun 23, 2011 at 07:39

European finance ministers, IMF officials and a coalition of other international institutions, are in the process of developing a new bailout program for Greece, as many maintain doubts as to…

Jun 23, 2011 at 07:34

The US has roughly 1 trillion barrels of oil equivalent in coal resources, or more. It has twice that amount in kerogen resources, but we are looking at coal specifically.…

Jun 22, 2011 at 15:32

On a map, it appears that the United States is made up of 50 states. The fiscal reality is that we have 20. Portugal’s, 15 Italy’s, 10 Irelands, 3 Greece’s,…

Jun 22, 2011 at 08:06

China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its growing industrial base. Nowhere is…

Jun 22, 2011 at 07:55

It seems to me that most policymakers have missed some basic issues with respect to our energy problem. One of these is that world oil supply is very inelastic–that is,…

Jun 22, 2011 at 07:52

Media reports often fail to connect recurring demonstrations in Greece and Spain with those in the Middle East and North Africa (Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain). After all, the…

Jun 22, 2011 at 07:47

A belief that 'small' hydropower systems are a source of clean energy with little or no environmental problems is driving the growing interest in mini, micro, and pico hydro systems…