This article, submitted for the United Nations World Environment Day blogging competition, covers how two very different cities with yet intertwined fates, Detroit and Doha, boast citizens building a new green economy.
Eight19 confronts the problem that the world’s poor face when choosing a fuel: high expense and dirty energy. The IndiGo product provides pay-as-you-go solar.
Thanks to its energy resources, Azerbaijan experienced for years one of the world’s highest GDP growth rates. A sovereign fund was established to manage these windfall revenues. International initiatives in favor of transparency keep an eye on the country’s main oil and gas company.
This week in Doha, Qatar, over 12,000 attendees will gather for the triennial World Petroleum Congress (WPC), which promises to be carbon neutral.
Across America green motor oils are beginning to line the shelves of auto garages, dealerships and commercial retailers. Universal Lubricants is one such company.
All eyes will be on Doha December 4 as the 20th World Petroleum Congress opens in Qatar. This year the WPC promises a carbon-neutral event.
Today Valvoline revealed its new NextGen line of motor oil, which boasts a formula that is 50% recycled oil. This product’s creation is the result of Valvoline’s unique position in this market and a natural disaster that occurred almost six years ago.
While oil companies fund any effort that sabotages a shift to clean technology, many oil companies benefit from government largess. US producer subsidies reached US$52 billion, Canada cuts checks that total $US2 billion to oil companies, and even the European Union subsidizes oil production at the cost of US$8 billion.
Could oil rigs rise behind this distillery of single malt scotch? Anyone who believed that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill would force countries to take a second look at deepwater oil drilling of their coasts are mistaken. The United Kingdom’s government just gave Chevron the green light to start a divisive deepwater oil exploration project in the North Sea, near the Shetland Islands.
Probably not. Despite the oft-heard cliché, history does not repeat myself. But once again, an unpopular Argentine government is stirring up deep nationalistic feelings as a distraction from its failed policies. I have vague memories, around junior high years, when Argentina’s then-military junta, unable to tackle growing economic problems, diverted attention by invading the [...]