Timetable set for gas terminal bid
CALIFORNIA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger could make a final decision as early as July on BHP-Billiton’s controversial $US4 billion ($5.3 billion) gas terminal proposal.
Energy Infrastructure
The Case for Decentralized Generation of Energy
Highly centralized generation of electrical power is a paradigm that has outlived its usefulness. Decentralized generation could save $5 trillion in capital investment, reduce power costs by 40 percent, reduce vulnerabilities, and cut greenhouse gas emissions in half.
U.S. Companies Eye Trans-Afghan Pipeline
American companies might join a long-delayed trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline project expected to be launched in 2006, the U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan said Tuesday.
NZ: Choice of LNG site ‘months away’
New Zealand electricity companies begin planning for the construction of an LNG refinery.
Saboteurs strike Iraq’s oil industry on daily basis: minister
Insurgents are carrying out at least one attack a day on Iraq’s vital oil infrastructure, at times shutting down all fuel lines to Baghdad, Oil Minister Thamer Ghadban said Thursday.
Louisiana’s oil infrastructure endangered
An impending crisis that could have a detrimental impact on the oil and gas infrastructure and fishing industry in the United States is leading scientists to investigate how to stop rapid deterioration and to start restoring marsh land in Louisiana’s southern coastal wetlands-which are losing a piece of land the size of a football field every 35 minutes.
Russia greenlights pipeline to Pacific, hints China may get Yukos assets stake
Russia said Friday it had ordered the construction of an oil pipeline from its huge Siberian oilfields to the Pacific Ocean opposite Japan, in a move to boost export opportunities throughout East Asia and to the United States.
Richard Heinberg at Peak Oil Conference in Santa Barbara
Heinberg speaks on Peak Oil and other threats to industrial society, the universal ecological dilemma, and coordinated and cooperative responses to our predicament. (2-hour audio)
Venezuela Offers China Greater Access to Oil to Reduce Dependency on US Market
President Chavez said that Venezuela will offer China greater access to Venezuelan resources, such as oil, natural gas, and related products, in an effort to reduce Venezuelan dependency on the U.S. market.
Renewable Energy Markets (US)
Analysis of how US customers buy into biomass energy technologies, examples of renewable power suppliers, how Renewable Energy Certificates work, and where providers are now operating.
Warming trend threat to pipeline, forum told
Climate change triggering landslides / Arctic gas project at risk, expert warns.
US: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
For millions of low-income Americans, it’s going to be a long, very cold winter. Fuel prices have skyrocketed and to make matters worse, the number of people living in poverty rose last year by 1.3 million to 36 million people, or 12.5 percent of the population.