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• Russia Behind Bulgarian Anti-Fracking Protests?

  Published 09 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Pity the poor Eastern Europeans. Fifty years under the domination of their massive Soviet eastern neighbor then the collapse of Communism there two decades ago…

• Poland Gives Green Light to Massive Fracking Efforts

  Published 02 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  There is perhaps no more controversial energy source after nuclear than "hydraulic fracturing," or "fracking," of subterranean shale deposits containing pockets of natural gas. While…

• Is Deepwater Horizon the New Ecuador?

  Published 31 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Nearly two years after the worst accidental offshore oil spill in the history of the energy industry, some of the biggest companies in the world…

• Something's Fishy in Tripoli

  Published 25 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Way back in early 2011, members of the U.N. Security Council had no problem getting a resolution through that authorized military force in Libya ostensibly…

• China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development

  Published 19 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February…

• Ahmedinejad Visits Latin America, Washington Implores and Seethes

  Published 13 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  At the best of times, the U.S. government is regarded as somewhat out of touch with what's happening in the American "heartland," much less the…

• Pakistan to Produce Gas - by Burning Underground Coal

  Published 11 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As we start a new year, consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer. With about 50 per cent less electricity generation capability…

• Football Pitch-Sized Batteries Could Change the World of Renewable Energy

  Published 09 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  2011 saw huge advances in solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and these advancements will continue into 2012. In fact 2012 could be the…

• Slovakia's Nuclear Schizophrenia - Shut Down, Continue As Usual, or Boldly Go - Where?

  Published 06 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The implosion of the USSR in December 1991 produced massive economic "collateral damage" in its East European allies, as they simultaneously sought both to assert…

• Investment in African Renewable Energy Reaches $3.6 Billion in 2011

  Published 04 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and…

• War Imminent in Straits of Hormuz? $200 a Barrel Oil?

  Published 03 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The pieces and policies for potential conflict in the Persian Gulf are seemingly drawing inexorably together. Since 24 December the Iranian Navy has been holding…

• Another Asian Fukushima Imminent?

  Published 29 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Taiwan imports 99 percent of its energy, which is vital to its rapidly industrializing economy. The island nation's electricity demand was recently growing at almost…

• Solar Breakthrough: Cheap Quantum Dot Solar Paint

  Published 28 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Researchers have reduced the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a one-coat quantum dot…

• Earthquakes, Water Pollution and Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Fracking - Strike Number Three?

  Published 20 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The last decade has seen a sustained campaign by the hydraulic fracturing ('fracking") industry against its critics, as the fracking industry in the U.S. alone…

• Startling the Global Community, Canada Withdraws from the Kyoto Convention

  Published 16 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Canada has announced its intention to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), sandbagging the other signatories to the convention. The Kyoto…

• India Embraces Solar Power, Says Price Will Equal Thermal Power in Five Years

  Published 13 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Economic South Asian superpower India has firmly embraced solar power, advancing the target date by five years for selling solar-generated electricity at the same rate…

• Could War Flare Again Between Iraq and Kuwait?

  Published 09 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  According to Iraqi Council of Representatives Oil and Energy Committee member Furat al-Sharei, the 10 oil fields that spread across the Iraqi-Kuwaiti frontier are still…

• U.S. Biofuel Camelina Production Set to Soar

  Published 09 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The U.S. biofuel industry has long been stymied by the lack of USDA federal crop insurance, leaving only the most adventurous farmers willing to plant…

• Mexico - Rising Natural Gas Superstate?

  Published 07 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Americans looking south of the Rio Grande tend to forget, if they ever knew, that Mexico is, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, now…

• Australia Going Solar - Gonna Cost Ya, Mate

  Published 05 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Green activists, take note - for Australia fully to embrace solar power, Canberra would have to spend $100 billion, with photovoltaic cells to generate the…