“You going to watch the State of the Union?” I asked a friend Tuesday. “I’m going to listen on the radio. I want to hear it, but I don’t want to have to look at him.”
Understandable, but by only listening, my friend missed the key to the speech. Viewers might have missed it, too if […]

Well the public perception is that it is all change at Congress. With the Democrats in power, one of their promises is to get rid of nasty subsidies to the oil industry. Well apparently not.
Great article by Laura MacCleery, who is the director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division, on TomPaine.

According to MacCleery: “When the […]

The World Bank-backed Chad-Cameroon pipeline, that brings oil from landlocked Chad along a 1,100km-pipeline to Cameroon, has run into trouble after springing a leak.
Local Cameroonian NGOs, the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) and the Network for the Fight Against Hunger, have alleged that there was a delay in detecting the leak and the Cameroon […]

Oil giant Shell, which abandoned U.S. Arctic exploration 21 years ago, plans to expand its search for oil by drilling the deepest offshore Alaskan well ever.
The oil company plans to drill one well to 14,000 feet beneath the sea floor (4,267 metres), which would exceed the deepest well ever drilled in Alaskan waters by 3,000 […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called upon all countries to join a binding post-Kyoto settlement on cutting greenhouse gases when she opened the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday.
She said that the two greatest challenges facing the world were climate change and energy security. “We need a binding regime that includes all of those who produce […]