Author: Erick Parel

Trump’s Treasury nominee warns of US economic crisis

Energy News Beat   The middle class will face the largest tax hike in history unless cuts made during Trump’s first term are extended, Scott Bessent has said The US is headed towards an economic crisis by year’s end, Scott Bessent, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, has warned. During his Senate confirmation […]

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting backtracks on nuclear

Energy News Beat   Chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz has concluded a nuclear energy revival in Germany is unrealistic, despite his party’s long-standing criticism of the timing of the country’s nuclear phase-out. The front-runner to become Germany’s next leader after the February 23 elections, Merz has pulled back from a previous goal of restoring Germany’s nuclear […]

What Does Trump Want in Greenland?

Energy News Beat The U.S. president-elect’s threats could lead the autonomous Arctic island to negotiate new terms in its relationship with Denmark. By Regin Winther Poulsen, a multimedia journalist from the Faroe Islands. Few would have imagined that just over one month later, Trump Force One, the private family airplane of the soon-to-be most powerful […]

The Renewable Energy Reckoning: Challenges, Failures, and 2025 Policy Shifts

Energy News Beat In the Energy News Beat – Conversation in Energy with Stuart Turley talks with Steve Goreham about the key energy challenges for 2025, including rising electricity demand driven by AI, EV slowdowns, and grid capacity struggles, alongside potential policy shifts under the Trump administration. It critiques the environmental and economic viability of […]

Kremlin unveils topics for Putin’s talks with Iranian president

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: I have discussed this in great detail in my podcast series with George McMillan, and we still have 10 hours in the production work on the Russia geopolitical issues around pipelines, and Land vs Sea power. The current President Trump administration appears to be missing information from the Biden […]

Trump’s Ambitious Week One Agenda

Energy News Beat He has pledged to take immediate action on issues from border security to trade. By John Haltiwanger, a reporter at Foreign Policy, and Amy Mackinnon, a national security and intelligence reporter at Foreign Policy. Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep, where we are layering up ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on […]

Golar’s Macaw produces first LNG at small liquefaction unit in Texas

Energy News Beat Macaw announced in a social media post on Wednesday it achieved its first LNG from stranded flare in Texas using the F2X mobile unit, turning wasted gas into “clean energy.” The company did not provide further details. Golar’s CEO Karl Staubo said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call in November 2024 that Macaw […]

India boosts LNG imports

Energy News Beat The country imported 3.22 billion cubic meters, or about 2.5 million metric tonnes, of LNG in December via long-term contracts and spot purchases, preliminary data from the oil ministry’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell shows. This marks a rise of 18.2 percent compared to the same month in 2023, PPAC said. PPAC’s […]

Bulgaria’s parliament approves new government after months of coalition talks

Energy News Beat [[{“value”:” Bulgaria’s parliament approved on Thursday a cabinet led by Rossen Zhelyazkov, a former parliament speaker, ending months of negotiations on forming a coalition government. The centre-right GERB party came first following a snap election in October, the seventh held in Bulgaria in four years, but has had to hold tough talks […]

‘Chinese’ hacking of US Treasury went to the top – Bloomberg

Energy News Beat [[{“value”:” The computers of Secretary Janet Yellen and two of her aides we compromised in the December breach, sources have claimed Suspected Chinese hackers gained access to the computer used by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for work in a breach last December, Bloomberg News said on Friday, citing two people familiar […]