Hapless Alberta Takes Action As Oil Prices Crash
Faced with a crisis moving oil out of the country, the provincial government in Alberta is stepping in to purchase trains in order to ease the midstream bottleneck. Western Canada Continue Reading
Exclusive: Russia accepts need for oil cuts, bargains with Saudi on details – sources
Russia is becoming increasingly convinced it needs to reduce oil output in tandem with OPEC but is still bargaining with the producer group’s leader, Saudi Arabia, over the timing and Continue Reading
Farewell to coal: a Polish city wakes up and smells the blossom
When the Wieczorek mine, one of the oldest coal mines in Poland, closed in March, Grzegorz Chudy noticed for the first time the neighborhood was vibrant with trees in the Continue Reading
Bulgarian miners march to protect coal production
Miners and workers at Bulgaria’s largest coal-fired power plant Maritsa East 2 marched in Sofia on Thursday to protect their jobs and to urge the government to support coal-fired energy Continue Reading
Poland plans new coal mine as climate talks loom
Poland will start investing in a new coal mine next year in the south of the country, Deputy Energy Minister Grzegorz Tobiszowski said on Thursday, a few days before U.N. Continue Reading
Is The Saudi-Russia Oil Bromance At Risk?
A week before OPEC and allies meet in Vienna to discuss a new oil production cut, the market is still wondering whether the leaders of the OPEC and non-OPEC nations—Saudi Continue Reading
Russia: Production Cuts Are Needed To Stabilize Oil Markets
Russia has started to concede that it needs to join a fresh Saudi-led oil production cut, but is still bargaining with its key partner in OPEC over how much, how Continue Reading
U.S. slams Russia’s Yamal LNG transfers in Norwegian waters
Allowing ship-to-ship transfers in Norwegian waters from Yamal in Arctic Russia, one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, undercuts Europe’s energy diversification efforts, the U.S. State Department Continue Reading
Russia nears start-up of its first LNG import facility at Kaliningrad
Russia’s Gazprom Neft is gearing up to start operations at the Kaliningrad floating storage and regasification unit terminal, the country’s first LNG import facility, with the 174,000 cu m vessel Continue Reading
Study infers causal relationship between breast cancer and high exposure to traffic air pollution
A team at the University of Stirling in the UK has found new evidence of the link between air pollution and cancer as part of a new occupational health study. Continue Reading