Despite Big Oil funding green energy, BP, Shell, and others are scaling back wind and solar investments, signaling a shift toward traditional energy. For years, groups like the Heartland Institute, CFACT, and other climate and energy realists have been accused of receiving large amounts of money from Big Oil to promote traditional energy sources. [emphasis, links […]
Continue ReadingDespite media whining, oil giants are dumping renewables and net-zero goals in favor of profitable oil and gas. Rigzone and The Telegraph, among other outlets, are reporting that many major energy companies are tempering net-zero pledges they made in recent years, turning away from renewables and back towards oil and gas. [emphasis, links added] This […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Redrawing of global energy markets map set to heap benefits on US February 23, 2025 Clark Savage The prospects of peace and the return of Russian gas looks likely to serve the interests of Donald Trump The Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago has reverberated through the global energy industry; unravelling Europe’s […] […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories The End of Coal Is Nowhere In Sight February 17, 2025 Clark Savage Retirement of coal-fired power plants in the West has done nothing to reverse global coal demand. Global coal consumption is set to remain at these high levels—or even hit new all-time highs—for a few more […] ‘BRICS is dead’ […]
Continue ReadingConservation and environmentalist groups have sued US president Donald Trump and his administration over his order to roll back the ban on future oil and gas leasing. The court battle against Trump is a two-parter. Several organisations are collectively challenging the order by the US president to revoke Biden’s withdrawal of certain areas of the […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Why China is Winning the Nuclear Energy Race February 17, 2025 Clark Savage China has significantly increased its nuclear energy capacity in the last decade, positioning it to become the world’s largest nuclear energy producer. China is actively developing and deploying advanced nuclear technologies, such as small modular […] EU gas imports from […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories The End of Coal Is Nowhere In Sight February 17, 2025 Clark Savage Retirement of coal-fired power plants in the West has done nothing to reverse global coal demand. Global coal consumption is set to remain at these high levels—or even hit new all-time highs—for a few more […] Coal Consumption Remains High […]
Continue ReadingUS president Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing a new council focused on boosting the country’s production and export of fossil fuels. Trump signed another executive order which formally created the National Energy Dominance Council with the primary purpose of driving up domestic oil and gas production. The new council, to be headed […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Pushback Begins Against Trump’s Oil Agenda February 9, 2025 Clark Savage West Texas Intermediate has been trading around $70 this week after posting two weeks of declines. The last time shale producers pursued a flat-out production strategy, crude prices tanked to the $40s. Cheap oil may […] Iran Says Trump’s Maximum Pressure […]
Continue ReadingWest Texas Intermediate has been trading around $70 this week after posting two weeks of declines. The last time shale producers pursued a flat-out production strategy, crude prices tanked to the $40s. Cheap oil may turn out to be one promise Trump can’t keep—because it’s not entirely up to him. President Trump declared a national […]
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