Royal Dutch Shell and its partners building a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Western Canada will decide by 2025 whether to double its capacity, the head of the project said. The $31 billion LNG Canada project last October became the first major… Read More »LNG Canada expansion to be decided by 2025
By Vijay Jayaraj Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s explosive comments are not surprising to anyone who has been closely observing the opposition of India and China to western pressure for adopting climate polices contrary to the two countries’ economic objectives. “The colonial mindset hasn’t gone,”… Read More »The East Slams the West’s Climate ‘Colonialism’
By H. Sterling Burnett Russia recently vetoed the U.N. Security Council Resolution aimed at labeling climate change a threat to international peace and security. They were right to block the United Nations’ efforts to expand its mission. As described in an Associated Press (AP) story,… Read More »Russia Is Right, There Is No Connection Between Climate, National Security, and the United Nations’ Mission
By Robert Bradley Jr. — December 7, 2021 “Cutting funding to our Country and our gas projects will condemn us to energy poverty for the next decades. Yes, I understand that climate change is a life or death issue, but so is improving the wellbeing… Read More »Climate Change? Energy Development First! (plea from Mozambique)
By Michael Kelly Next time you stand for 90 seconds filling your petrol tank, you might think of the enormity of what is happening, in energy terms. Chemical energy is entering your tank at a rate of typically 17 million Joules/second, or 17 megawatts—equivalent to… Read More »Electric Motors Versus Internal Combustion Engines
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to CNBC India has just saved the world, by forcing everyone to accept the deletion of the centrepiece of COP26, replacing the “Phase Out” of coal with the much weaker phrase “Phase Down”. Countries strike deal at COP26 climate… Read More »COP26 Caves on Coal – “Phase Down” Rather than “Phase Out”
By Rupert Darwall So far, the big message from the Glasgow climate conference is the role of finance in decarbonizing the global economy. It’s a dangerous development. In his speech to the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties (COP26) last week, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer,… Read More »Net Zero and Green Financial Repression
Paul Driessen COP-26, the twenty-sixth massive climate control “conference of parties,” goes live in Glasgow, Scotland on Halloween. That’s certainly appropriate since its primary purpose is to further terrify humanity to “take action” to prevent the “existential threat” of “manmade climate cataclysms.” Thousands of politicians and… Read More »Europe’s Energy Crisis Better Wake America Up
By Sudarshan Varadhan and Aaron Sheldrick UDANGUDI, India/TOKYO, Oct 29 (Reuters) – On the coastline near India’s southern tip, workers toil on a pier carrying a conveyor belt that cuts a mile into the Indian Ocean where the azure waters are deep enough for ships… Read More »COP26 aims to banish coal. Asia is building hundreds of power plants to burn it
By Elizabeth Piper and Markus Wacket FRANKFURT, May 21 (Reuters) – The world’s seven largest advanced economies agreed on Friday to stop international financing of coal projects that emit carbon by the end of this year, and phase out such support for all fossil fuels,… Read More »In climate push, G7 agrees to stop international funding for coal