Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil supplies to the US if it continues what he calls an economic war. “Take note Mr Bush, Mr Danger,” said Mr Chavez in his weekly televised address. “I will cut off oil supplies.”
British and US courts froze assets belonging to Venezuela’s state energy company last […]

George Bush’s latest climate talks in Honolulu, Hawaii, have been described by delegates as the most frank and engaging climate negotiations so far.
Last year’s meeting in Washington was meeting was described by angry EU delegates as a waste of time, but the BBC reports that this time the tone was very different.

Its the greenhouse Groundhog day, again. How often has America prevented progress over international agreements on climate change?
The US is trying to remove a reference to 25-40% cuts in carbon pollution by 2020 for developed countries, which remained in the draft roadmap released by the UN yesterday.

Some fifteen thousand people (including two from Oil Change) are in Bali for the annual two week UN Conference on climate change. This year’s meeting is the largest ever.
It also seen as the most important in years as delegates are under pressure to deliver a new post-Kyoto global agreement on how to cut rising greenhouse […]

How things are changing in Australia. Former Midnight Oil front man Peter Garrett has been appointed environment minister by Australian Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd.
Rudd, who has not yet taken office, has targeted the environment one of his top three priorities, along with the Australian economy and its education system. Garrett, who had an international hit […]