Energy Efficiency

Over the last 50 odd years, big oil spills are no longer news in this vast, tropical land. The Niger Delta – where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface – has endured the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates; [...]

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African nations have criticised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at United Nations climate change talks in Barcelona. The UN is holding final climate change talks in Spain before the big meeting in Copenhagen in a month’s time and in a sign of just how fractious the negotiations in Copenhagen could be, African countries walked out on [...]

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A giant deepwater oil discovery in the Tiber field (Gulf of Mexico) is likely to increase BP’s oil footprint in the region; about 8% of the oil and gas BP produces comes from the U.S. Gulf. BP is the biggest producer in the Gulf, to the tune of 400,000 barrels of crude oil and natural [...]

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America is on the ropes and its ‘trainer’ – China – is also struggling. Just as Kevin Rudd is weighing up borrowing more money to pump into the economy to make it look like its business as usual, so too is China wondering how much more money to pump into the American economy to buy [...]

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The following article is by Eric deCarbonnel; while we don’t have the available information in Australia, we do know that last year (because of population growth and the drought) Victoria became a NET FOOD IMPORTER for one month, so parts of Australia are certainly close to their short-term human carrying capacity (under current water and [...]

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