After thousands of years, Canada’s ‘majestic’ ice shelves disintegrating
Vancouver Sun, 28 August 2010
Aug 30
Vancouver Sun, 28 August 2010
Aug 30
Bloomberg, 29 August 2010
BP Plc’s internal investigation of the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster found company engineers misinterpreted pressure data that indicated a blowout was imminent, according to a person familiar with the report.
Aug 30
Newsweek, 29 August 2010
Brazil has a sunken-treasure problem. The discovery three years ago of a huge offshore stash of oil unleashed a gusher of nationalist euphoria. At somewhere between 9 billion and 15 billion barrels, it was the largest find in the Western Hemisphere in more than a quarter century.
Aug 30
Seeking Alpha, 29 August 2010
The [US] federal government’s Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) reported an in line increase in natural gas supplies, attributable to relatively warm temperatures in most regions that led to robust electric generation demand for the commodity.
Aug 27
Sydney Morning Herald, 26 August 2010
Three years ago China had planned to lay 13,000 kilometres of high-speed railway by 2020, which would be more than the rest of the world combined. Then the global financial crisis intruded and Beijing brought that 2020 deadline forward by eight years, while redefining ''high speed'' to mostly mean faster than 350 km/h, rather than 250.
Aug 27
Grist, 9 July 2010
We're starting to see some tangible progress from President Obama's Smart Growth/Livability initiative — a joint venture of the Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency — which announced
Aug 27
Online, 26 August 2010
At the Mt Druitt “Town Meeting” Julia Gillard came very close to revealing the true state of affairs regarding Australia’s escape from the worst aspects of the GFC. Ms Gillard asked each member of the audience to indicate if their family would have been able to continue to pay off a mortgage had one of the partners lost his or her job during the worst of the financial crisis. I wasn’t present but I assume there were quite a few who
Hanging on to our assets
Aug 26
Huffington Post, 25 August 2010
I first spoke to Rick Steiner more than three months ago — about two weeks into the Deepwater Horizon disaster — after a source recommended I talk to him for a story I was writing about the spill as a teachable moment. Steiner is a marine conservationist and activist in Alaska who started studying oi
Aug 24
Energy Trends, 20 August 2010
South America is about to change from a region of natural gas self-sufficiency to a source of demand for liquified natural gas (LNG) imports. A peak in production in long-time producer Argentina has caused natural gas shortages in the Southern Cone while political issues are affecting exploration and development in Bolivia and Venezuela, the two nations with the largest gas reserves.
Aug 24
USA Today, 23 August 2010
The government is investigating at least 20 car dealerships it claims violated the rules of last year's cash-for-clunkers program. Government auditors say up to $94 million in rebates may be ineligible because they lack the proper documentation.
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