New Delhi (AFP) Jan 3, 2010 - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who successfully fought against binding caps on emissions at the Copenhagen climate talks, admitted Sunday that all parties involved were unhappy with the results.
Barendrecht, Netherlands (AFP) Jan 3, 2010 - A plan by oil giant Shell to store 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year in a depleted gas reservoir beneath this Dutch city has drawn the ire of residents and local officials who have vowed to thwart it.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Jan 3, 2010 - Consumer prices soared in Venezuela as the government of President Hugo Chavez devalued the bolivar and the currency fell further against the U.S. dollar on traditional unofficial markets.
Beijing (UPI) Dec 31, 2009 - With the world's highest level of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest market in the world by floor space, building green is becoming the architectural trend in China.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 31, 2009 - China is set to become the world's third largest wind power producer in 2009, state media reported, as the Asian giant seeks various ways to expand energy supply to power its economic boom.
Baghdad (UPI) Dec 31, 2009 - The preliminary deals signed by Angola's state oil company, Sonangol, Wednesday to develop two small fields in the most dangerous part of Iraq constituted a major breakthrough for Baghdad's high-risk drive to attract international oil companies to help it restore its flagging fortunes and transform the global energy market.
Washington (AFP) Dec 31, 2009 - Residents of the US capital may have to dig a little deeper into their pockets when they go grocery shopping once the city slaps a five-cent levy on each plastic bag issued at the checkout line.
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 30, 2009 - China's state-owned Shenzhen Nanshan Power has said it will not pay 80 million dollars to a Goldman Sachs unit for alleged defaults on oil-hedging contracts.
Ashgabat (AFP) Dec 30, 2009 - The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has awarded contracts worth 9.7 billion dollars (6.8 billion euros) to a series of foreign companies to develop one of the world's most prized gas fields.
Bucharest, Romania (UPI) Dec 30, 2009 - Southeastern Europe's proposed natural gas pipeline moved a step closer to reality after the Romanian president signed a decree allowing parliament to ratify construction.
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 - A consortium led by Russian energy giant Lukoil initialled a deal with Iraq at a ceremony at the oil ministry in Baghdad on Tuesday to develop the massive West Qurna-2 oil field.
Moscow (UPI) Dec 29, 2009 - Russia has served notice it may cut its crude oil supplies to Eastern Europe because of Ukrainian demands for higher transit fees, officials said.
Seoul (UPI) Dec 29, 2009 - South Korea's carbon dioxide emissions increased 2.9 percent -- totaling 620 million tons -- in 2007, the government announced Monday, Xinhua reports.
Moscow (AFP) Dec 28, 2009 - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched Russia's long-awaited Siberian oil export route Monday, giving energy-hungry Asia a new supply source from the world's largest crude exporter seeking to diversify its client base away from Europe.
Moscow (UPI) Dec 28, 2009 - Russia is planning to double its intake of natural gas from Azerbaijan in a potential challenge to European efforts to engage the Eurasian nation in the independent Nabucco gas pipeline network.
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Dec 28, 2009 - The days of the conventional electricity power grid are numbered and business opportunity, pragmatism and the need to better monitor both use and users of electricity have combined to raise the prospect of a multi-billion dollar industry growing worldwide.
