Ever wondered how much of the oil price is pure hype or fear? Well there is an interesting article in today’s New York Times, which quotes Michael Rose, the director of the energy trading desk at Angus Jackson in Fort Lauderdale, Florida who says that “Crude is coming down because it was way too high,” […]

As climate change moves up the political agenda, with even rumours that President Bush is going to make an a massive U-turn on the subject, another bastion of sceptics is starting to worry about the subject – OPEC.At a recent OPEC conference in Vienna,
Claude Mandil, executive director of the International Energy Agency told OPEC delegates: […]

Renewable energy provides just over 6 percent of total U.S. energy, but that figure could increase rapidly, according to a new report by the Worldwatch Institute and the Center for American Progress, “American Energy: The Renewable Path to Energy Security.”

Are we are about to witness one of the biggest political U-turns in recent years? Rumours are rife in Washington that Bush is about to undertake an astonishing U-turn on global warming.
Apparently after years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change, the Toxic Texan is drawing up plans to control emissions of carbon […]

The World Bank may be meeting in Singapore, but in the UK the political party season has begun. First up it’s the Liberal Democrats. The environment and climate change will feature heavily like never before with the Tories and Lib Dems both trying to attract the green vote.