Large parts of Eastern and Northern Britain remain under water this morning as over a month’s rain fell in less than twenty four hours. Residents south the city of Sheffield have been evacuated after fears that a dam may burst, after cracks appeared in its side.
Some parts of the country received more rain in twenty […]

The former White House consultant, Roger Bezdek, who is on a trip to Australia, has urged the Oz federal government to rigorously assess the looming impact of peak oil.
He called for the government to create an independent body to study peak oil and create solutions ahead of a “liquid fuels crisis”.

In an extraordinary outburst aimed at America’s failure to tackle global warming, Al Gore says that if scientific agreement on the climate crisis had been reached sooner it would have been easier to “galvanise the public and persuade Congress to act”.
“The nature and severity of the climate crisis had seemed painfully obvious to me for […]

Although oil production on the North Slope is in steady decline, its largest operator, BP, remains bullish about the future because of the region’s untapped resources.
BP says the region is teeming with enough natural gas and heavy crude oil to keep production going for another 50 years.

The Russian state-controlled gas company, Gazprom and Italian energy group, ENI, are proposing a €10bn-plus pipeline to bring Russian gas to Europe in a move that will reignite concerns about the European Union’s dependence on Russian supplies.
With the backing of both Russian and Italian governments, the companies signed a memorandum of understanding at the weekend […]