UK Government Still Dithering on "New North Sea" of Gas

Just published here at Energy Tribune (US) with a version here The Commentator (UK)...

Here's a taster:

It’s hard to fathom. In March 2013, the UK, Europe’s largest gas consuming nation, was reportedly just just “six hours from running out” of natural gas. With North Sea gas production falling and gas imports hitting a record high during the fifth coldest spring on record, the country’s dependence on overseas supplies is growing steadily. All of which has re-focused attention on the coalition’s dithering over the UK’s potential “new North Sea” of shale gas.

Big Green, Not Big Oil, Is The Enemy

Big Green has become Big Business and is dragging down our economy. Our piece just published at The Commentator spells it out. And here's a taster:

As Peter Lilley MP noted in a Spectator article (May 11, 2013) powerful NGOs are actually heavily funded by government – and they waste no time in using that income for spreading climate scare stories through the media; scare stories that rarely, if ever, bear close scrutiny. Yet, the WWF receives a huge £4million in UK government support, with a further €600,000 coming from the EU. Friends of the Earth Europe receive a massive £1.2 million from the EU.

Let’s get it straight, Big Green is Big Business. Next time you are moved to pitch your ‘hard-earned’ cash into a tin shaken before you while being regaled with a nonsense message – e.g. that carbon dioxide is a ‘pollutant’ – you might like to bear that in mind.

Fracking Energy Mess: Deconstructing the Green Agenda

Actually a variant with additions on Europe's Fracing Energy Mess published last week. For this full article go here.

Europe's Fracking Energy Mess

Go here to my column at The Commentator (UK) or here to my column at Energy Tribune (US) for the full article.

Carbon Emissions Hit 400ppm. So what?

My latest article dumps on the nitwit theories about CO2 emissions. Further, it points out that far from being higher they have been much higher in the past. The ancient Egyptians driving SUV's perhaps?

For the full article go to The Commentator (UK) or to Energy Tribune (US).

The World is Not Running Out of Oil - But Europe Is

The upshot of Europe's incoherent energy strategy is closing in...as my article published at Energy Tribune (US) and The Commentator (UK) reveals. Here's a taster:

It’s almost as if the world is turning while the Eurocracy, somehow, manages to stand still. While the rest of the world recognises the on-going inherent reality that oil is still an indispensable player, ideological Brussels politicians prefer playing with windmills and funny plastic sheets.

The great petroleum geologist Wallace Pratt said, "Oil is found in the minds of men". He was referring to the theory of making new discoveries. In the case of Eurocrats, however, it’s more of a practical observation.

The Coming Arab Winter

The final part of our trilogy on the fast- changing face of geopolitics in the Middle East - the direct result of energy discoveries (not least via fracking) is published here at The Commentator (UK) and here at Energy Tribune (US).

OPEC Fracked (or 'The Collapse of OPEC Power')

The days when OPEC could hold the Western powers to ransom over oil are over - and here's why.

See my article here at The Commentator or here at Energy Tribune (slightly different versions).

Fracking: No Earthquake Threat, says Definitive British Study

My article covering this latest study of fracking and its consequences globally.

Go here to Energy Tribune (US) for the full article or here to The Commentator (UK).

Margaret Thatcher: Death of a Political Colossus

I remember well the 1970s. The country was in a desperate economic plight. The unions were demanding ludicrous pat rises of 30 percent and upwards. Union leaders were constantly at No 10 demanding this and that. Maggie changed all that and, quite literally, saved the country from becoming an economic basket case.

The idiot National and Union of Students (among others) out celebrating her demise today are too dumb to grasp any of this. It is wealth creation through capitalized enterprise and self-reliance not an entitlement culture and every-increasing welfare and government dependency that helps people to draw themselves out of poverty. Margaret Thatcher understood that. When she took office unemployment was 13 percent in the UK! When she left office around 5.5 percent. Think about it.

Rest in peace, Maggie. For my published article and elegy go to Energy Tribune (US) or to The Commentator (UK).

Israel's Rise to Energy Superpower Under Way

A major shift away from the power of the OPEC 'tyrannies' is under way as Israel's enormous gas and oil finds start to pump. And it's only the beginning of a paradigm shift "West" in terms of great energy security in the West.

For the full article go here to Energy Tribune (US) or here to The Commentator (UK).

Russia's New Middle East Energy Game

A story overshadowed by the Cyprus banking crisis that is the real BIG story impacting the geopolitcs of the Middle East - and which most of the media has missed. Here's a taster:

But if anything offers a litmus test for trends in hard-nosed realpolitik, it’s the cutting of strategic international energy deals. While the Western media persists in warning of apocalyptic consequences should Iran’s nuclear ambitions lead to outright conflict with Israel – a conflict drawing in Russia et al. – an entirely different scenario is developing as Moscow is buying long-term into the Israeli-Cypriot gas and oil energy bonanza.

For the full article go to Energy Tribune (US) or The Commentator (UK).

UK Steals Lead Over Europe in Shale Gas Stakes

The Budget morsel most of the media missed in terms of its vital long-term impact on the UK economy covered in the above article from me.

For the full article go here to The Commentator (UK).

The Green Agenda and the Political Tipping Point

One government has already been brought down by its green policies. Others may soon follow...my article spelling it out. Go here for the full article to Energy Tribune.

Climate Consensus? What Climate Consensus?

My latest published here at Energy Tribune.

UK Shale Numbers Could Be Stratospheric

Great news for the UK energy user and for the economy - just not for the green medievalists...published first here at The Comentator (UK) then here at Energy Tribune.

Global Warming Just Isn't Happening: Official

Two decades of no warming...and that's official. But when will 'popular science' (and the dull-witted media and politicos) get the message?

For the full article go here to The Commentator (UK) or here to Energy Tribune (US).

Green hypocrisy as Al Gore Sells Out for Petro-dollars

Just published at Energy Tribune my article spelling out the latest green hypocrisy from Al 'Do-as-I-say-not-as-do' Gore.

Here's a taster:

The fact is, Al Jazeera is funded by the oil-rich Qatari government and has long been considered a tool for the oil-rich monarchy which heavily subsidizes fuel prices. Qatari drivers only pay around $1 per gallon at the pump. Which helps to explain why, as I pointed out in Kyoto: The Last Rites, in the league of the highest per-capita greenhouse gas emitters, Qatar ranks no 1 in the world.

So if you, as a strongly committed green idealist, were reviewing the offer you could only conclude that Al Jazeera would fit the bill for an ‘unfit prospective buyer’. Not so Al Gore. According to the New York Times which first broke the story, Gore and his colleague’s wanted the deal pushed through before January 1, 2013 to avoid being hit with higher taxes. The same higher tax regime that Gore and his Democratic Party backed to ensure the rich would pay their “fair share”. For Gore, personally pocketing $20 million in greenbacks clearly trumps planet-saving hair-shirtism.

For the full article go here.

UK's New Year Shale Gas Resolution

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The massive benefit of the UK developing its doemstic shale gas reserves is good news - if the government doesn't over-regulate and screw it up. For the full article at Energy Tribune go here.

David Cameron Must Sack Energy Secretary Ed Davey - and soon

My latest article spelling out who "we're all in this together" apparently doesn't apply when it comes to imposing a raft of new green energy levies.

For the full article go to Energy Tribune (US) or to The Commentator (UK).