Charles Kennedy

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• The US Continues to Suffer for its Lack of a Water Policy

  Published 19 September 2012 | viewed 3,930 times

  The US is experiencing its worst drought in over 50 years. It highlights the glaring problems that plague the US water supply and will only…

• Could Plans to Build Nine Mega Coal Mines in Queensland Doom the Climate?

  Published 18 September 2012 | viewed 15,446 times

  The Australian state of Queensland could become the seventh largest contributor of greenhouse gases on the planet, behind only China, the USA, India, Russia, Japan,…

• UK Study Shows the Benefits of Thorium Have Been Exaggerated

  Published 17 September 2012 | viewed 8,591 times

  Thorium powered nuclear reactors have been touted as the solution to the world’s energy problems by some. They claim that is safer and cheaper than…

• Tesla Model S Completes Trip from LA to Las Vegas on One Charge

  Published 15 September 2012 | viewed 4,818 times

  Motor Trend, the US automobile magazine, was recently loaned a Tesla Model S electric vehicle in order to put it to the test, and determine…

• Libya - Doomed from Day One

  Published 13 September 2012 | viewed 27,612 times

  People often ask me why the West doesn’t attempt a Libya-style intervention in Syria. After all, things are going so well in Libya. Oil production…

• Gas Prices Exceed $8 a Gallon as Station Owners Protest Against Lukoil

  Published 13 September 2012 | viewed 4,707 times

  On Wednesday more than 50 Lukoil gas stations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania increased their prices to more than $8 a gallon in protest against…

• 100th Turbine Installed in World's Largest Wind Farm

  Published 13 September 2012 | viewed 5,616 times

  This summer the British offshore wind farm industry found reason to celebrate as the 100th wind turbine was erected in Phase One of the London…

• 6 Things to do with Nuclear Waste: None of them Ideal

  Published 12 September 2012 | viewed 145,837 times

  High-level radioactive or nuclear waste is “spent” uranium fuel used in nuclear reactors. This spent fuel is thermally hot and highly radioactive, usually in the…

• Will John Fredriksen's $11 Billion Gamble Pay Off?

  Published 12 September 2012 | viewed 15,908 times

  John Fredriksen, the shipping magnate worth $13.2 billion is one of the most powerful, respected, and even feared men in the global oil and gas…

• Chesapeake Delay the Grim Reaper with $6.9 Billion Asset Sale

  Published 12 September 2012 | viewed 4,843 times

  Chesapeake Energy has been struggling with massive debts all year, and has just completed the latest of a string of asset sales intended to raise…

• The Top 4 Advanced Biofuels: Keeping Food on the Table

  Published 11 September 2012 | viewed 11,532 times

  As the fuel versus food debate intensifies, Oilprice.com takes a look at the top four advanced, non-food biofuels that may have a long-term potential to…

• Chevron Oil Refinery Fire: Air Monitoring Mistakes Delayed Public Warning

  Published 11 September 2012 | viewed 4,734 times

  Officials investigating the fire at Chevron’s California oil refinery last month, have stated that those in charge of monitoring the air quality, made mistakes which…

• Sailing the Solar Currents of Space

  Published 10 September 2012 | viewed 6,641 times

  Technologies tend to change all the time as improvements are made and new designs are implemented that produce more power or a higher efficiency. One…

• Mining Companies Turn to Renewable Energy for Growing Power Demands

  Published 08 September 2012 | viewed 4,693 times

  There is a growing trend amongst mining companies to develop renewable energy installations to supply their electricity needs.Using Solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources…

• Europe Has Had Enough, But Can It Stand Up to Gazprom?

  Published 08 September 2012 | viewed 27,099 times

  Gazprom has Europe’s natural gas market in a stranglehold and Europe is attempting to fight back, first with a raid last year on the Russian…

• America's 10 Most Polluted States

  Published 06 September 2012 | viewed 98,038 times

  Do you know where you live? Half of all industrial toxic air pollution comes from power plants and 6,700 power plants and heavy industries are…

• Qatar May Block Huge Merger between Natural Resource Giants

  Published 06 September 2012 | viewed 5,000 times

  This Friday the shareholders of Xstrata, one of the largest copper and coal mining companies in the world, will vote on a merger offer that…

• EC Investigation into Chinese Solar Exports Risks Trade War

  Published 06 September 2012 | viewed 5,061 times

  In July - twenty of the leading solar manufacturers in the EU filed a complaint with the European Commission that China was selling its solar…

• Study Suggests the Arctic May not Contribute as Much Oil and Gas as Thought

  Published 05 September 2012 | viewed 7,132 times

  With the constantly rising demand for oil around the world, oil and gas companies are looking to extract every drop of oil they can from…

• 5 Oligarchs Taking the World by Storm

  Published 04 September 2012 | viewed 17,050 times

  Oligarchs are the wealthy few who benefit from the government and for all intents and purposes call the shots behind the scenes. Oilprice.com considers five…