Lukoil, Russia’s largest oil company, is slowly buying up influence in Europe according to an article in the Financial Times.
Whilst, its rival, Gazprom has often stirred controversy through headline-making projects, Lukoil is quietly concentrating on countries in south-east Europe where Russia is seen with less suspicion than the rest of the continent.

Bush’s plans to tackle climate change and reduce foreign oil dependence have been widely condemned by environmental groups.
Jan Kowalzig of Friends of the Earth Europe said that whilst ethanol from corn is “carbon neutral”, production of ethanol requires fossil fuels.
“Transportation of the fuels, processing of the fuels - all that requires energy which is currently […]

If you listened to, or read, President Bush’s speech last night, you might be thinking that a 20% reduction in gasoline use over the next decade sounds pretty good. That is, until you go to the White House website to read the details of the plan, in which they use a word the President […]

Did we witness the first green shoots of an ailing President in his State of the Union address?
After all the hype of what Bush was going to say about a radical course of direction on climate change, with him calling for a mandatory cap on emissions, it predictably failed to materialize. No surprises there really.

Thousands of blackened and oiled sea-birds have been recovered from the sea and coasts surrounding the stricken container ship, MSC Napoli, which is beached off the Devon coast in South West England.
Some 200 tonnes of oil has formed a five-mile slick and local environmentalists are warning that the breeding population of the guillemot, which has […]