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A recent IISS event on these issues 'Threat multipliers: the changing energy landscape, climate change, and water stress' with a recording (63 mins); the...

After a short delay in Morocco:
Link:http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/04/465568055/morocco-unveils-a-massive-solar-power-plant-in-the-sahara?

Interesting that this is funded by the...

Being a typical English summer day, with a host of very news worthy items in the foreground, it is a good time to announce this:
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Maeda asked:

I thought Firn (our resident economics guru) had posted on this, but a search found fracking has been mentioned - though not an answer to your question.

What I have read elsewhere...

Yesterday I listened to a BBC radio report on pollution in Beijing with mild interest which changed when a local academic commented (not exact words):

I am not aware of China's domestic gas...

In recent weeks energy security has been an issue in the public arena in the UK, the catalyst being steep rises in the cost of electricity and for some the underlying, increasing costs of 'green...

IIRC Iran exports crude oil for refining across the Gulf and then imports the products, presumably at a premium. It will be interesting to see if new refineries are added.

It's Thursday, so it must energy stories day for the Daily Telegraph.

Risk of UK power blackouts has tripled in a year, Ofgem warns or:
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Thanks Rick for that post, I only occasionally check The Guardian. A "lurker" responded:

The actual headline in the Daily Telegraph is 'Fridges could be switched off without owner's consent to reduce strain on power stations', a strange report on a proposal by EU power generators to the...

Rick,

You raise a number of points about the UK's decisions on economic policy, way beyond energy security:

I suspect there was an assumption that additional O&G would be found that could be...

I read AM today that two LNG deliveries from Qatar are due to arrive in the UK, within two days and so restore reserves. How the UK which still has its own gas under the North Sea, in the midst of...

Rick asked:

Very few modern homes have a back-up source, let alone a working chimney and 'clean air' regulations restrict smoke emissions in virtually all urban areas.

Insulation is another...

Yesterday for a short time the security of UK gas supplies came to the fore; after the loss of one pipeline connection, due to a faulty pump, a cold snap, a sudden increase in prices and outsiders...

Hat tip to 'The Interpreter' from Australia's Lowy Institute for this BBC report:

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21752441

It does seem a little early to expect this is a saviour for...

A nice play on words, but in fact fracking is one component of this blog article on UK energy and security:http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2012/12/a-fracking-great-shift-of-power-2/

Back to fracking...

This article's sub-title promises much:

Link:http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8749181/new-paths-to-power/

The bonanza from North Sea oil has spectacularly declined, almost without the public noticing. In 2011 oil 47.5mt and gas 28.1 kms - approx. halved in ten years. From: ...

So says a leading UK ecology advocate, George Monbiot.

Link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/02/peak-oil-we-we-wrong



Rick,

I don't follow Canadian politics, what is going...

The Lowy Institute had a recommendation / pointer to this book 'Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources' by Geoff Hiscick, published April 2012 and link, without...

Something to consider Rick and others, although I await the actual production of natural gas off Mozambique's...

A curious report, on FP Blog, alas minus a map and any references - especially when it is news to me and I suspect others.

Israel has found massive deep-sea natural gas reserves in the...

Via separate, non-SWC research I've located a European academic / policy research think tank, the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security, co-located in London and Berlin that may have items...

Rick M and others,

These popped up on an IPPR email:



Link:http://www.ippr.org/articles/?id=4194