The growth in coal use comes just a year after countries agreed to phase down their use of coal at the United Nations’ climate conference in Glasgow.
The noose tightens.
Slight-of-hand.
Pieter Cleppe of the Brussels Report discusses the rise of European conservatism, the economic future of the EU, and who attacked the Nordstream pipeline.
Aontú leader speaks out
Panda Power has told its customers that it has made “the difficult decision” to exit the electricity and gas market in Ireland. “Unfortunately, over the past 18 months our business has faced a series of external pressures due to unprecedented and insurmountable price increases in the international wholesale energy market which have risen by over […]
Russia’s greatest strength, politically, was the notion that it could not be beaten. This weekend, its army was routed. That will change the political calculus considerably.
Oil & Gas
The EU has reportedly been buying natural gas from China at a premium, which has in turn been buying its gas from Russia. According to Hong Kong-based news outlet the South China Morning Post, the Chinese government bought 2.35 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas in the first half of 2022 – 28.7% more than […]
Henry Kissinger famously applied the dictum that “information is power” to a theory of global economic and political systems. His understanding of geopolitics and global economies and the interconnected global world can be summarized with the triad: Control food, you control the populations; control energy, you control whole continents; control currency, you control the world. […]
“Unprecedented.”
Household energy bills set to rise by 70%.