Its not just BP who is worried about corrosion on Alaska’s North Slope. After seeing BP’s reputation ravaged this year, Conoco Phillips has stepped up its efforts to prevent corrosion-related leaks in its own Alaska pipelines.
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Climate Sceptic Alert: “The Mad Monckton”
Just when you thought the debate on climate change was done and dusted, an annoying climate sceptic has popped up trying to continue the oil industry’s campaign to deny and delay action on the issue. For the last couple of Sundays, Christopher Monckton has written in the Sunday Telegraph, the torch-bearer of the old guard … Read More
Blair Rejects Yearly Carbon Targets
The Blair government is heading for political trouble after refusing to accept annual carbon dioxide reduction targets. Instead the government is set to introduce five-yearly targets in the Climate Change Bill to be announced in the Queen’s Speech today. Ministers will promise to monitor annually progress towards the five-year milestones, in order to deliver a … Read More
Chelsea Tractors Run into Trouble
In London they are known as “Chelsea tractors” or 4X4s and in America as SUVs. Whatever you want to call them, the mayor of London has them in his sights. He has already called people who drive them “idiots”. Yesterday Ken Livingstone yesterday unveiled plans to charge the highest polluting vehicles ÂŁ25 a day to … Read More
U.S. Energy Secretary Says High Oil Prices Wreck Economies
U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has warned that high oil prices will wreck economies especially in the developing world. In remarks before the annual conference of the Middle East Institute, Secretary Bodman said worldwide demand for energy is expected to increase over 70 per cent over the next quarter-century, with devastating consequences. “It is … Read More
Will the New Congress Act on Climate?
Will a new Democratic Congress mean a sea-change in environmental and climate change policy? That is the question being asked by many people who voted out the Republicans. Whatever the short-term euphoria, it remains far from certain what will happen over the next two years and some of the initial signs are not good. Let’s … Read More
Stop Pombo’s Final Act of Folly for Big Oil
The New York Times today takes issue with President Bush’s call to pass “bipartisan energy legislation” before this Congress finishes – saying that instead the “House and Senate should limit their work in this final session to as few measures as possible”. The energy bill Bush has in mind, says the Times, is in fact … Read More
“Living Memorial” Unveiled for Saro-Wiwa
Last Friday was the 11th Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s execution. To mark the occasion, a “living memorial” to Ken was unveiled in London. Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists were murdered by the Nigerian junta in November 1995. Their only crime was to fight against the oil companies, namely Shell and ask for a greater … Read More
Pelosi Promises To End Oil Subsidies
Washington’s political landscape is changing fast. Rumsfeld has gone, just days after Bush said he would never sack him and now it looks like the Democrats have taken the Senate as well. Just days after being a Republican-hate figure, the new Speaker Nancy Pelosi is having lunch with President Bush. I am sure they will … Read More
Investment by Oil Industry “Inadequate” Says IEA
Further analysis of the IEA’s World Economic Outlook reveals that oil industry has barely increased its investment in oil and natural-gas production during the past five years after accounting for inflation.Data compiled by the IEA and reported in the Wall Street Journal, show that investment in the oil-and-gas industry was $340 billion in 2005, up … Read More