Energy News Beat It’s fashionable to claim that the free market ideas of Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman have failed the country, and that it’s time for new policies. Campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden declared that “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” More recently, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt noted that people like Friedman promised […]
Energy News Beat As COP 28 winds down, the Canadian oil and gas industry is faced with the unenviable task of making sense of the declarations, plans, proposals, and unrealistic promises and attempting to chart a path forward. Global leaders aggressively addressed oil and gas methane cuts using a one-two punch of financial incentives and […]
Energy News Beat Shell Wind Energy Inc. and Savion Equity, LLC, subsidiaries of Shell plc, have agreed to sell partial ownership stake in two U.S.-based renewable energy projects to InfraRed Capital Partners. Shell will sell 60% interest in Brazos Wind Holdings, LLC, a 182-megawatt (MW) onshore wind farm in Fluvanna, Texas, and 50% interest in […]
Energy News Beat (WO) — The Energy Workforce & Technology Council’s monthly jobs report reveals a surge of 1,286 jobs in the U.S. oilfield services sector for November. This growth, based on preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), follows adjustments to October numbers and analysis by the Energy Workforce & Technology Council. […]
Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: George McMillan III, ENB Contributor, and geopolitical energy expert, wrote this article. He was on an earlier podcast where we covered a fantastic global overview, and are tracking around the world in more detail. We are recording another podcast this week, and have several more articles in his series […]
Energy News Beat India’s coaching hubs, like small-city Kota, have become big business, but as students face pressure to perform, suicide is now a pressing public health issue Rahul is an 18-year-old engineering aspirant from northern India currently in Kota, a small city in northern India’s desert state of Rajasthan, where he is preparing for […]
Energy News Beat Jaipur, India – Even though Ukraine lies 6,000km (3,728 miles), two seas and half a dozen national borders away from Ali Hussein’s hometown, the raven-haired 29-year-old tour guide still feels for the war-torn ex-Soviet nation. “India is close to Russia and we buy Russian weapons, [but] I am fully on Ukraine’s side,” […]
Energy News Beat Ogoja, Nigeria – Rebecca stares down her sandy street past the palm trees and T-junction. No sign of Blessing. It is already after 7:30am, and their school’s morning assembly will soon start. Rebecca sighs with relief when she sees her friend running towards her. “Sorry, sorry,” Blessing gasps, “I had to queue […]
Energy News Beat Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Inside one of the rooms of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Mahmoud Zindah stays close to his father, Nader, the horrors of the past week etched on both of their faces. Their eyes are wide, darting around. The 14-year-old and his father were among hundreds of Palestinians rounded up […]
Energy News Beat Israeli forces have carried out deadly raids in the occupied West Bank while shelling and bombing many areas in the Gaza Strip in advance of a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting to discuss an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”. At least four Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in the most intense raid in […]
