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McCain Warns of Vulnerability of Foreign Oil

1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell April 24th, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Alternative energy, Biofuels, Climate Change, Energy Security, Nuclear energy, Renewables, US politics, War, energy policy, ethanol

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 […]

Development Banks’ Inconvenient Truth

0 Comments Published by adam March 15th, 2007 in Alternative energy, Climate Change, Coal, End Oil Aid, Oil, Renewables, development, energy efficiency, energy policy, oil subsidies

Multilateral development banks concluded a two day conference in London yesterday on “Financing Clean Energy”. Non-governmental organizations were generally shut out of the meeting, restricted to a handful of participants, but a long list of oil and energy companies were in attendance and they were ready to discuss just about anything other than phasing out […]

Blair Backs EU Renewable Targets

0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell March 1st, 2007 in Alternative energy, Renewables, Solar, Wind

UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair will complete a U-turn over green energy next week when he supports an ambitious 20 per cent mandatory target for renewables at an EU Summit. Blair is said to have overruled Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Minister, who wanted a voluntary agreement.
France has also indicated it will drop its […]