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• EVs Aren’t Fueling A Rare Metal Boom…Yet

  Published 14 May 2017 | viewed 7,096 times

  Earlier this decade, there was no lack of hype around electric and hybrid cars. Sales were expected to take off, driving demand for lithium, nickel,…

• Uber Aims To Launch Flying Taxis In Dallas And Dubai By 2023

  Published 29 April 2017 | viewed 12,336 times

  10 years ago, the concept of self-driving cars seemed the stuff of science-fiction. Today, self-driving cars are not an uncommon sight in some cities and…

• Are China’s Ambitions To Combat Pollution Hurting Its Economy?

  Published 22 April 2017 | viewed 19,408 times

  Beijing is caught in something of a quandary. On the one hand, an admirable, and increasingly important social imperative, the Chinese government’s focus on air…

• Big Oil Leading The Charge For New Carbon Capture Tech

  Published 25 March 2017 | viewed 9,899 times

  For an industry that has for decades been criticized by environmental groups as the root of all evil it is ironic that oil and gas…

• Is The Lithium Bubble About To Burst?

  Published 11 March 2017 | viewed 9,779 times

  After rising aggressively, some would argue that lithium prices have already peaked. Reuters quotes Paul Robinson, director at consultancy CRU Group saying that prices have…

• Metals Rise Across The Board After OPEC Agreement

  Published 03 December 2016 | viewed 11,165 times

  Yesterday, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries finalized a deal to cut production by 1.2 million barrels a day starting in January, its first reduction…

• Renewable Energy Storage Could Be Worth $90 Billion Per Year

  Published 15 August 2016 | viewed 17,716 times

  Renewable energy technology has been split into two camps since it became a reality around the turn of the century. On the one hand there…

• The Coal Decline Is Now Irreversible

  Published 08 February 2016 | viewed 8,751 times

  There was a lot of talk last year about coal resources needing to be left in the ground if the world was to reach its…

• U.S. Shale Is Too Adaptive For The Saudis To Kill

  Published 15 October 2015 | viewed 13,211 times

   Saudi Arabia is taking a massive gamble on the world oil markets. Their “pump at any price” policy has driven oil down to below $50…

• Lack Of Political Will Could See World Miss Carbon Targets

  Published 21 February 2015 | viewed 4,141 times

  This graph illustrates the extent to which BP’s Energy Outlook 2035 sees renewable energy sources having a meaningful impact in the years ahead.Source: BP Although…

• Industry Relief As India Begins Coal Block Auctions

  Published 18 February 2015 | viewed 5,774 times

  India took its first step on the road to coal mining reform by initiating the auction of select coal blocks over the weekend. Environmentalists, though,…

• Russia India Nuclear Deal Not As Exciting As Previously Thought

  Published 20 December 2014 | viewed 6,167 times

  The initial euphoria over Russia agreeing to build at least 12 nuclear reactors in India by 2035 has died down as sector experts get around…

• South Stream Demise Could Benefit Both Turkey And Moscow

  Published 17 December 2014 | viewed 6,611 times

  Russian President Vladimir Putin may have announced that the proposed South Stream gas pipeline is dead, but it would seem this has given him a…

• Low Oil Prices Causing Majors To Reconsider Larger, Riskier Projects

  Published 09 December 2014 | viewed 5,750 times

  With oil hovering around $70 a barrel, oil and gas companies must make decisions on 800 proposed projects worth a total of $500 billion. An…

• Oil Can Keep Crashing

  Published 03 December 2014 | viewed 7,887 times

  While Americans were tucking into their Thanksgiving turkeys, over in Europe a third of the world’s oil producers were cooking up a very different sort…

• Bitter Truth About Germany´s Renewable Energy Goals

  Published 02 December 2014 | viewed 6,671 times

  As an example of the fine pursuit of high ideals, Germany’s drive for clean energy could not be finer. Whether you hold to the majority…

• $15 Billion in Pipeline Projects Coming to Appalachia in 2015

  Published 03 November 2014 | viewed 22,885 times

  The natural gas boom in the Marcellus Shale region of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania has resulted in $15 billion in proposed pipeline construction projects.…

• India May Become World’s Largest Coal Importer

  Published 16 October 2014 | viewed 6,579 times

  It was to be expected. India’s coal imports in September zoomed up by 19% to 16 million tons as compared to a year ago, no…

• India Takes a Green Leaf Out of China’s Sustainability Tree

  Published 02 October 2014 | viewed 5,486 times

  When we think of India as an investment destination or look at the economy for areas that could provide growth and wealth generation construction is…

• Supreme Court Ruling Deals Blow To Indian Coal Sector

  Published 27 September 2014 | viewed 7,016 times

  In the end, it turned out as many feared it would. The Supreme Court of India canceled all but 4 of the 218 coal blocks…