Pardon the title, but the Wall Street Journal has an extremely interesting interview with the top dog at Shell, Peter Voser.
He admits that Shell is fast becoming a gas company rather than an oil company. “Shell started quite a while back, actually, to put a lot of emphasis on gas” says Voser. “And by 2012, [...]

The oil and gas industry likes you to think that, compared to oil, gas is a cleaner, greener alternative – a great bridging fuel between the hydrocarbon age and the renewable age.
Compared to oil, this may be so – if and it is a big if, the gas is normal conventional gas. However, as traditional [...]

Australia has been accused of watering down demands for radical action at the Pacific Islands States conference, that has just finished in Cairns, Australia.
At the start of the conference the Pacific Island states were demanding a 45 per cent cut by 2020 and 85 per cent by 2050.

One of the questions on Australia’s mind this week-end has been whether the intensity of the wild fires devastating large parts of Victoria is linked to climate change.
The nightmare is that the scenes of total devastation they are witnessing are a sign of things to come in a warming world. There are those are making [...]

The Northern hemisphere may be suffering from one of its coldest winters on record, with deep snow falls and ice blizzards, but Australia has been gripped by its worst drought in a century.
And the blistering heat which has scorched southern Australia proves the accuracy of warnings by scientists, according to the country’s Climate Change Minister [...]