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Bush fuels the debate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 12:00:07
| Guardian: President Bush's strong espousal of alternative fuels such as cellulosic ethanol as a way of weaning America off its dependency on Middle East oil should be warmly applauded. The president has often made reference to oil in previous State of the Union addresses but not by endorsing a particular solution with such enthusiasm and never with a specific target in mind: to cut dependence on Middle East oil by 75% by 2025. It would have been even better if Mr Bush had worked with the international ... |
Shell makes record $23bn profit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 12:00:07
| Independent: The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell defended itself yesterday against charges of profiteering at the expense of motorists and householders after announcing the biggest profit in UK corporate history. The Anglo-Dutch company increased profits last year by 30 per cent to $23bn (£13bn) on the back of surging oil prices, enabling it to pay out $17bn to shareholders. But Shell said it made little money selling petrol in the UK, describing it as "one of the toughest and most competitive ... |
Did Climate Change Trigger Human Evolution? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 12:00:07
| National Geographic: It may be a threat to humans' long-term future on the planet, but climate change may have helped bring us into being in the first place, some scientists say. Some human-origins theories suggest that ancient climate changes acted as powerful evolutionary drivers, spurring our ancestors to stand tall on two legs, grow large brains, and develop other human traits (related reading: "Was Darwin Wrong?"). The evolution of early human species, so the theories go, was ... |
Senators plan climate change bill this spring (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 12:00:07
| Reuters: The Republican chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Energy Committee will introduce legislation this spring aimed at fighting global warming, but their staff see little chance of Congress passing the climate change bill this year. The European Union, Japan and much of the rest of the industrialized world are imposing mandatory cuts on emissions linked to global warming. But in the United States, the Bush Administration favors asking companies to join a voluntary emission ... |
Sens. seek stricter global warming curbs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 12:00:07
| Associated Press: New Mexico's two senators laid out a path Thursday toward creating what they hope will become the nation's first mandatory program for trading greenhouse gases in the marketplace. The technical report by Sens. Pete Domenici, the GOP chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Jeff Bingaman, the panel's senior Democrat, is an attempt to make a reality of a nonbinding resolution the Senate passed last year. It called for "mandatory, market-based limits and ... |
Temperatures soared in 2005 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 12:00:07
| Agence France-Presse: The world's average temperature rose in 2005 to its second highest level in more than 100 years in a sign of global warming caused by greenhouse gases, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Thursday. The temperature worldwide last year was 0.32 degrees Celsius higher than the average calculated figures between 1971 and 2000, the agency said. The 2005 figure was the second highest since 1891 when the agency began keeping the measurement. The record high was in 1998 when the ... |
Canada: Scant research dollars for renewable energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 12:00:07
| CBC: Renewable energy may be the way of the future but when it comes to research dollars, Alberta is sticking to what it knows best. According to the Alberta Energy Research Institute, the province spends more than $60 million a year on research but only a small portion of that goes towards renewable energies.The lions share is reserved for conventional oil and gas. Eddy Isaac, managing director of AERI, says global demand for oil isn't going away therefore it makes sense for ... |
Californians Set to Battle over Energy Tax Plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Reuters: A California constitutional amendment taxing oil production to fund a range of alternative energy efforts may go to voters this November, setting up a nine-month battle between environmentalists and oil companies. Some big names in California business including movie producer Steven Bing and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla will help fund the "Californians for Clean Alternative Energy" effort to get the measure on the ballot and convince voters to approve it. ... |
Light bulbs: Not such a bright idea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| BBC: Governments are wrestling with problems of rising energy demands, rising costs and the spectre of climate change. In this week's Green Room, Dr Matt Prescott argues there is an easy first step to dealing with all three issues - banning the traditional light bulb. Listening to most politicians, you would think the world's energy problems can be solved only by building ever bigger power stations and burning ever more fuel. Not so; and it certainly cannot solve the coming ... |
Poor nations need billions to fight climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Reuters: A top British environmentalist said on Friday the developing world needed to spend at least $40 billion more every year to fight climate change. Last year was the warmest on record across the globe and it was unusually hot in the Arctic, U.S. space agency NASA said last month. Five of the hottest years since modern record-keeping began in the 1890s occurred in the past decade. "If the developing world is to have extra resources necessary to modify their investments to ... |
Solarworld Buys Shell's Solar Business; Shares Soar (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Reuters: Germany's SolarWorld has bought Shell Group's loss-making silicon solar operations for an undisclosed sum, making it the biggest player in the US solar energy market, it said on Thursday. Shares of SolarWorld, which have risen about 430 percent over the past 12 months, rose to an all-time high of 230.90 euros, before closing up 17.4 percent at 218.85 euros. \Frank Asbeck, chief executive of solar energy company SolarWorld, told Reuters it expects 2006 revenues to rise by about ... |
US Must Stop Gas Guzzling to Beat Gulf Oil Addiction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Reuters: The United States must put more energy efficient cars on the highway and raise taxes on gasoline if it wants to kick its addiction to oil from the volatile Middle East, analysts said on Thursday. President George W. Bush mentioned neither energy efficiency nor tax in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, when he said "America is addicted to oil" from the Middle East and needs to slash imports from there by more than 75 percent by 2025. A cut in imports of that ... |
Feeding the Oil Addiction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Washington Post: "AMERICA IS addicted to oil." It was a catchy line in President Bush's State of the Union speech. But in truth, few administrations have done more to feed America's oil addiction than this one -- and the same can be said for this Republican Congress. For most of Mr. Bush's first term, Congress struggled to pass an energy bill. Last year, Mr. Bush signed one into law. Although not as riddled with pork as some previous versions, the law did not change much, either. It provided ... |
In Energy Work, One Hand Giveth and the Other Taketh (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| New York Times: President Bush supports the development of ethanol, wind power and other forms of renewable energy. So does Congress. But their goals differ in ways that compete for research dollars and are costing some government researchers their jobs. About one research dollar in every five appropriated by Congress for the development of renewable energy sources is for a specific project inserted directly into the budget on behalf of a member of the House or Senate, and directed to a contractor ... |
US May Learn from Brazil Ethanol Sector - Analysts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Reuters: Brazil, the world's largest and most competitive ethanol producer, may serve as a model for the United States as it attempts to wean itself off its addiction to oil imports, analysts said on Thursday. US President George W. Bush, a former oilman, announced in his State of the Union speech this week an agenda to develop alternative energies such as ethanol from grains and cellulose in order to end America's dependence on oil from volatile regions of the world. "Without a doubt, ... |
US oil dependence: Are we finally serious? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Scripps Howard: At least Karl Rove didn't tell his boss to wear a sweater when the president told Americans they are "addicted to oil." Three decades ago during the Arab oil embargo when former President Jimmy Carter ordered the lights turned off on Washington's famous monuments (as he wore a sweater), Americans freaked out as the price of a barrel of oil rose from $4 to $12. Today's cost is about $70. Consumption has gone up, not down, and use of foreign oil in America has almost doubled ... |
US senators debate climate change; bill months away (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Reuters: The Republican chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Energy Committee released on Thursday a "white paper" on climate change issues that must be resolved before they can introduce global warming legislation. Their staff said they see little chance of Congress passing such a bill this year. The European Union, Japan and much of the rest of the industrial world are imposing mandatory cuts on emissions linked to global warming. The Bush administration favors asking ... |
Ethanol Seen Helping Cure US Addiction to Oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Reuters: Ethanol could help cure America's "addiction" to oil, with the fledgling industry poised for a boom to sate the country's thirst for renewable alternatives to gasoline, industry sources said on Wednesday. President George W. Bush said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday America was addicted to oil and that technology should be used to develop alternative energy sources, such as ethanol-blended gasoline and hydrogen fuel. "People look and see what's ... |
German Government to Tax Biodiesel in 2006 - Report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Reuters: German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck plans to impose new taxes on biodiesel fuel from August 1, the newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported on Thursday. Draft legislation on energy taxes includes a new 10-euro-cent (12 cents) per litre tax on biodiesel fuel, largely made from rapeseed oil, the newspaper said. A 15-euro-cent per litre tax would be imposed on biodiesel blended with conventional diesel at oil refineries. A new tax of 15 euro cents per litre would also be imposed ... |
NASA clamps down (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Sacramento Bee: By intimidating scientists and dragging its feet on changes, the Bush administration is doing a great disservice to the American people and the world on global climate change. The latest shenanigans involve NASA clamping down on James E. Hansen, director of the global-climate computer simulation at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He is a leading authority on climate change and its relation to energy use. Hansen told the press that NASA headquarters ordered public affairs ... |
Oil Addicts: Author Leggett Discusses Bush's Pledge, Solar Home (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:10
| Bloomberg: Stock markets crashing. House prices plunging. Companies failing. Bread lines forming. That nightmare may materialize unless we confront the perils of dwindling oil, says author and geologist Jeremy Leggett. Leggett, a former researcher for oil companies including BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, once served as chief scientist for Greenpeace in the U.K. He sounded an early warning on climate change in his 1990 ``Global Warming: The Greenpeace Report.'' He issues his ... |
Climate change makes Russian bears aggressive - WWF (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:11
| Reuters: Russians have had to shoot three unusually aggressive polar bears so far this year, in what environmental group WWF said was a sign the bears' feeding patterns were being disrupted by global warming. The group said bears used to come ashore in winter along the sea ice to forage for food, but that the ice had retreated unusually far from the coast leaving predators with a long swim. "This makes them particularly vulnerable since animals in search of food lose their sense of ... |
United Kingdom: Whitehall in greenhouse gases row (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:11
| BBC: UK government departments cannot agree on setting greenhouse gas limits for business, the BBC has learned. Ministers have pledged to reduce UK carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for global warming, by 20% by 2010. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs wants companies to cut emissions by eight million tonnes, BBC Radio 4's Today programme reported. But the Department for Trade and Industry wants a three-million-tonne cut, to protect firms' ... |
Bush Energy Proposals, Speech Underwhelm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:11
| Inter Press Service: U.S. President George W. Bush's proposals to boost government spending on clean energy technologies, like much of the rest of his State of the Union Address, received a tepid reaction from analysts here Wednesday who described the speech as uncharacteristically timid. While energy and environmental activists applauded his portrayal of the energy problem faced by the U.S. as an "addiction to oil", they said his solution -- a 22 percent increase in clean energy research -- ... |
Can the US break its oil addiction? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:11
| BBC: In his State of the Union address, President Bush said the US was "addicted to oil" which threatens to undermine future economic growth. He used his speech to launch the Advanced Energy Initiative - a research programme focusing on the development of clean energy technologies. President Bush said he hoped to "move beyond a petroleum-based economy, and make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past". The president focused on two areas: ... |
Brazil: Hot Water from Sunshine (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:11
| Inter Press Service: Turning sunshine into electricity is still too costly for it to become widespread, but using it to heat water is a viable option that is expanding in many countries, and could make great strides in Brazil. Two initiatives by environmentalists and interested companies are giving a boost to solar water heaters in Brazil. In Sao Paulo, only a final decision by Mayor José Serra is needed for legislation to go into effect that would make installing solar water heaters obligatory ... |
United Kingdom: Smaller firms could trade carbon (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 03:00:11
| BBC: Small and medium-sized firms may face pollution limits in the UK's drive to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is considering a scheme for the companies to be allocated a ration of permits to emit CO2. If they overshoot their ration, the firms would have to buy extra permits. It follows a report by the Carbon Trust that showed many firms - particularly in retail and commerce - were guilty of squandering energy. The ... |
Diesel Pollution from Trains and Boats Targeted (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 09:00:06
| Associated Press: Trains and boats powered by diesel-fueled engines cause about 4,400 premature deaths, nearly 5,700 nonfatal heart attacks and more than 73,000 asthma attacks in children, says a study by associations representing air pollution control officials. The study by the trade groups -- the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials -- is an attempt to prod the Environmental Protection Agency to make good on its ... |
United Kingdom: Huge row predicted on emission cuts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 09:00:06
| Financial Times: Ministers expect a "huge row" with businesses over plans to cut greenhouse gas output under the European Union's emissions trading scheme. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs intends to push ahead with tougher limits on emissions than are required under EU-wide plans set out by the European Commission last month. Businesses in energy-intensive sectors covered by the scheme fear this will put them at a disadvantage compared with competitors in other ... |
Greenpeace Protests Russia's Plan for World's Longest Oil Pipeline (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 09:00:06
| Environment News Service: MOSCOW, Russia, February 2, 2006 (ENS) - About 60 Greenpeace activists protested at the headquarters of a Russian government agency Wednesday, accusing it of trying to silence its own environmental experts who are opposed to plans for the world's longest oil pipeline, scheduled to be built through a World Heritage Site around Lake Baikal. In bitter cold weather, the Greenpeacers demonstrated in front of the federal technical watchdog Rostekhnadzor against the construction of the ... |
Bush Would Break U.S. Oil Addiction With Renewables, Nuclear, Coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2006 at 09:00:06
| Environment News Service: WASHINGTON, DC, February 1, 2006 (ENS) - "Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world," said President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address, delivered last night before a Joint Session of Congress. "The best way to break this addiction is through technology," the President said. To bolster technological solutions to the ... |
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