Nick Cunningham is an independent journalist, covering oil and gas, energy and environmental policy, and international politics. He is based in Portland, Oregon.
One year into his term, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has pulled out all stops to make life easier for extractive industries, effectively turning Australia…
China holds the largest reserves of shale gas in the world, but much of it may never get developed because of one major obstacle: water…
Texas could finally become a leader in solar, thanks to a new resolution passed by the city council of Austin. The bill will require the…
Micro Cap no More – How a little known oil and gas company has put together a project with tremendous upside in the Canadian Montney…
Shell could be returning to the Arctic after a two-year hiatus. The company submitted a drilling plan to the U.S. Department of Interior on Aug.…
The economy in coal country is being left behind the rest of America. Coal communities have long suffered from higher rates of poverty than many…
Royal Dutch Shell is on the verge of unloading a major portion of its assets in Nigeria.The oil major is zeroing in on a deal…
Political change could be coming to Brazil. A new Ibope poll in Brazil shows that an unexpected challenger in the 2014 presidential election would defeat…
The floundering U.S. nuclear industry just got a bit of good news: Utah is considering building two new nuclear reactors. Blue Castle Holdings Inc. has…
Instead of waiting to obtain a “presidential permit” to ship oil sands from Canada to the United States, one Canadian firm has found a workaround,…
A review of monthly figures for new installations of electric power capacity in July shows that renewable energy is quickly becoming the energy source of…
China’s demand for natural gas will more than triple over the next 25 years, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.…
Big Oil has been very successful at developing sophisticated technology to access oil in some pretty remote areas. Consider the technological skill necessary to drill…
The confrontation between Ukraine and Russia has entered a potentially dangerous new phase that could increase the likelihood of a dispute over energy supplies.On Aug.…
Deep in U.S. coal country, people are suffering economically not just from the White House’s determination to reduce America’s dependence on coal, but also because…
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the embattled owner of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors, has said it is running out of space to store water contaminated…
Weak global oil demand is keeping a lid on prices, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), and that’s bad news…
A new report says the U.S. government dramatically underestimated the level of greenhouse gas emissions that would result if the controversial proposed Keystone XL pipeline…
After several years of very little progress, Brazil is finally beginning to extract oil from ultra-deep water. It’s a welcome development for the South American…
Mexico’s Congress have given final approval to a far-reaching energy reform bill that will open up the oil and gas sector to private investment for…