Day: August 5, 2025

U.S. to Scale Iran’s Sanctions Through Finance Channels Impacting China

Energy News Beat In a bold escalation of its foreign policy, the United States is intensifying sanctions against Iran, with a particular focus on disrupting financial channels that support the regime’s oil exports. This move primarily targets China, Iran’s largest oil buyer and de facto key financier, as part of a broader strategy to curtail […]

New Study Finds Wind-Turbine Dismantling Costs Are More Than Claimed, and There Is a Crisis Looming

Energy News Beat As the world races toward renewable energy targets, a new Finnish study has cast a shadow over the wind power industry, revealing that the costs of dismantling onshore wind turbines are far higher than industry estimates suggest. Published in August 2025, the report titled “Assessment of Decommissioning Costs and Financing Models for […]

Qatar’s LNG Warnings Expose the EU’s Frail Energy Strategy of Net Zero

Energy News Beat In a bold move that underscores the vulnerabilities of the European Union’s ambitious Net Zero agenda, Qatar has issued stark warnings about potentially halting liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments to the EU. This threat stems directly from the bloc’s aggressive push for sustainability regulations, including carbon taxes and due diligence laws that […]

EU’s 1 Trillion Euro Blunder: Trump’s Sanctions on India

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories Trump Says US to Hike India’s Tariffs Over Russian Oil Buys August 4, 2025 Clark Savage ENB Pub Note: The Bloomberg story below is pointing out that President Trump is planning on “substantially raising the tariff on Indian exports to the US over their buying Russian oil. This is […]

Russia’s Gasoline Prices Surge After Refinery Hit by Drones

Energy News Beat In a significant escalation of Ukraine’s drone campaign against Russian energy infrastructure, multiple refineries were targeted on August 2, 2025, leading to a record surge in domestic gasoline prices. The attacks, attributed to Ukrainian forces, struck key facilities including the Novokuibyshevsk refinery in the Samara region and the Ryazan refinery in western […]

Glenfarne still expects Texas LNG FID by end of this year

Energy News Beat FERC prepared the final SEIS to address the August 6, 2024 opinion issued by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the Commission’s environmental review of the Texas LNG project, proposed by Glenfarne’s Texas LNG Brownsville. “FERC staff continues to conclude that approval of the project would […]