There are always two ways to tell a story. Read the BBC this morning and you would believe that the Climate talks in Nairobi reached agreement. The headline on the BBC’s website is that “Nairobi climate talks end in deal”. According to the BBC, “the UN climate talks in Nairobi have ended with agreement reached […]

Voters in Boulder, Colorado have approved what may the US’s first “carbon tax.” The tax, which will take to take effect in April next year, will be based on the number of kilowatt-hours used.
The tax is to pay for the “climate action plan,” efforts to “increase energy efficiency in homes and buildings, switch to renewable […]

In this day and age, energy security does not just mean securing enough oil and gas supplies it means protecting them too. In these days of heightened terror alerts the Sunday Times has reported how “a special armed police force is being proposed to protect Britain’s main oil, gas and electricity installations from terrorist attack […]

There are signs that despite all the hype about the need for urgent global action, the UN climate talks in Nairobi are “stuck” on the most fundamental issue: a review of the Kyoto Protocol. At the moment there will be no deal on mandatory cuts in emissions and a firm timetable for negotiating cuts also […]

Here’s something that will get the peak oil pundits up in arms. Oil industry analysts Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) argue that the peak oil theory is based on “faulty analysis.”
It could, if accepted they argue, “distort critical policy and investment decisions and cloud the debate over the energy future”. They are arguing that the […]