In the third of three major policy addresses, Republican presidential candidate, John McCain has talked about the “great and urgent challenge - breaking our nation’s critical dependence on foreign sources of oil”.
In a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) McCain warned that America’s “dependency on foreign oil and the way we […]

The Independent newspaper leads on its front-page that the map of Greenland will have to be redrawn.
A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland’s enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming.
Several miles long, the island […]

BP’s slide from grace continues.
Profits, production and prices all fell in BP’s first quarter, as the UK-based energy group said that profit before interest and tax dropped 17 per cent to some $7bn, with net replacement cost profits also down 17 per cent at $4.36bn.

Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to “The Carbon Boom,” a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released earlier this month by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG). The past nine years have been among the 25 warmest for the contiguous United […]

Nigeria’s presidential elections – that will impact the country’s oil industry – have been dismissed as so chaotic and flawed that they should be re-run.
Election observers said most polling stations only had half the ballot papers they needed. Half the country had no ballot papers at all. “You cannot use the result from half of […]