OPEC quota cut comes into view as prices fall

Report: Chevron may avoid $1B in payments

Incomplete lease agreements could allow oil giant to avoid paying royalties to federal government on new oil field.

BP gets 'first step' OK for bypass line

Clean technology key to French coal revival

PARIS (Reuters) - Surging demand for energy, coupled with high oil and gas prices have revived France's enthusiasm for coal but it may be short-lived without fast development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies.

CNN 'In the Money' Drops Conspiracy Theory When Interviewing Oil Analyst

America's Significant Oil Find for the Coming Decade

...Finally, this discovery is doubtlessly a hard lesson learned for advocates of the 'Hubburt Peak' oil theory, who have been calling for years now to an end to the dependency on oil; the only reason is that the approaching end prompts dependence on alternative sources of energy.

Wind power ready to meet looming energy gap

Updating Prescriptions for Avoiding Worldwide Catastrophe - an interview with James Lovelock.

Mongolia seeks more profit from rich coal deposits

Finland offers experience in clean energy

Russia: Exxon cannot book new Sakhalin reserves. But Exxon is in denial.

Nigeria: President Obasanjo Says Ethanol Will Be Compulsory for Nigerian Fuel

President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the Administration would make the use of ethanol in fuel compulsory, like the cassava flour in wheat for bread.

Pesticide use worldwide touches 2 kg per hectare

The use of pesticides worldwide has risen dramatically from 0.49 kg per hectare in 1961 to 2 kg in 2004 and with this the export of pesticides has touched an all time high of $ 16 billions, the World Watch Insititute (WWI) has said.

The increase in the use of pesticides is attributed mainly to the rising use of herbicides on genetically modified crops in China, it said.

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Coming soon: Hydrogen-powered BMW

Luxury sedan will burn both hydrogen and gasoline. It will be provided to selected drivers.

Beware the oil trap

...be prepared to be surprised if the oil price goes down much further than seems possible.