Natural Gas
Climate Change legislation heating up
by John Muir on Oct.18, 2009, under Legislation, Natural Gas, cap-and-trade
For congress, it has been all about health care and the economy in recent months. However, an article in the NYT today suggest there may be some motion on climate change legislation as the major players in the energy industry start taking sides.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/business/energy-environment/19fuel.html
Putting the Carbon back in Carbonated
by John Muir on Apr.11, 2009, under Natural Gas, News
NPR’s Anthony Kuhn reports on a story that could have passed for the annual April Fool’s day joke. His story “China Puts Fizz In Bid To Reduce Carbon Emissions” outlines a Chinese company’s efforts to sequester carbon from a power plant for soda production. The story is real, but the efforts sound a bit more like “pop” culture than a true break through in battling climate change.
Also, a follow on to my Gazprom post from January.
I found a great article by Rudolf ten Hoedt that appeared last spring in the European Energy Review. Hoedt brings more depth to the political chess game going on with Nigeria’s oil and Western Europe’s suppliers. Oil was on the rise when this was written, I’ll be interested to see how the dramatic drop in oil prices affects this developing story in coming months and years.
http://www.hcss.nl/en/download/610/file/EER3-Gazprom%20-Africa.pdf
