Day: December 10, 2023

Putin’s Russia is closing in on a devastating victory. Europe’s foundations are trembling

Energy News Beat We need to talk about Ukraine. While the world’s attention has been focused on the war between Israel and Hamas, grim tremors have been shaking that rich, black soil. Ukraine’s counteroffensive has failed – or, in Volodymyr Zelensky’s words, “did not achieve the desired results”. As exhausted Ukrainians fall back from Russia’s […]

ENB #163 – Live from COP28 an update with Grace Stanke, and the 22 countries signing a commitment for nuclear energy.

Energy News Beat This is my second podcast with Grace Stanke, Miss America for 2023, and she was in Dubai for COP28. Several other interviews around COP28 are getting teed up, and it should be fun.It was phenomenal also to produce an interview with Grace for Rey Trevino on the Crude Truth. We got an […]

Russian Natural Gas and Geopolitical Realignment—a reverse domino theory

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This is one of the Energy News Beat series’s most important articles. I interviewed George McMillan on a 2-hour podcast interview. He is the CEO of McMillan Associates, a geopolitical and analytical energy company with extensive global studies and expertise. He is the CEO of McMillan Associates, a geopolitical […]

We no longer need the Cop circus – technology and markets are already solving the climate crisis

Energy News Beat ENB Pug Note: The author from the Telegraph raises some interesting points about the COP Circus. I agree that the baton has been passed to big oil and that money is now available for green energy. The markets and humanity should decide on the best path for the environment. Printing money and […]

The left is silent on the imperialsit war for oil from Venezuela – Why?

Energy News Beat Patrick Robertson posts on LinkedIn: While Western peace movements have eyes only for Gaza, their former model socialist republic, Venezuela, is threatening to invade its smaller and less Left-wing neighbour, oil-rich ex-British Guyana. Deafening silence is the Left’s response to the looming threat over oil swells. Time was it would have had […]

EU country still buying Russian gas – media

Energy News Beat The Netherlands reportedly purchased over 200 million cubic meters of Russian LNG in September, RIA Novosti has reported The Netherlands continues to import Russian gas despite earlier pledges to stop buying the commodity, the news outlet RIA Novosti reported on Saturday, citing Dutch trade data. According to the report, in September, the […]

Leaders of Venezuela and Guyana to meet amid border dispute

Energy News Beat Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro will meet Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali amid a territorial dispute between the two countries, according to a letter from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. Tensions have been mounting between Venezuela and Guyana in recent weeks due to a long-running border dispute over Esequibo, an […]

Clean energy stocks have fallen out of favor. They face more challenges ahead

Energy News Beat Clean energy stocks are out of vogue, as higher interest rates and lagging efforts to combat climate change dog the sector. Those obstacles might not go away anytime soon. The iShares Global Clean Energy exchange-traded fund, which tracks the performance of sectors from renewable electricity to semiconductors to solar energy, has slumped […]

OPEC Leader Tells Members to Block Any Climate Summit Deal to Curb Fossil Fuels

Energy News Beat In a letter, the secretary general of the oil cartel called on countries in the group to “reject any text or formula that targets energy.” The head of the OPEC oil cartel, alarmed that nations gathered at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai are considering an agreement to phase out fossil […]

Russia’s Shadow Fleet – 24 min Bloomberg Video – “Ships aquired by “We don’t know who; and insured by who knows?”

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: Michael and I have talked about the “Shadow Fleet” for several years. Iran had been ahead of Russia in avoiding sanctions, but both have successfully made the United States irrelevant after the current administration’s weaponization of the US dollar around the world. A “shadow fleet” of aging tankers is […]