Author: Erick Parel

Norway balks at EU’s energy integration drive

Energy News Beat   Norwegian politicians are resisting attempts to implement critical EU energy laws, which would integrate the country more tightly into European power markets.  The EU’s expanded free trade region (EEA), of which Norway is a key member, is being rocked by Oslo wrestling with its role in Europe ahead of September elections. […]

Here’s why EU leaders really want to send troops to Ukraine

Energy News Beat Fearing being excluded by Trump, Kiev’s European backers see ‘boots on the ground’ as a political foothold in the crisis Nothing is certain regarding the Ukraine conflict. Except two things: Russia is winning and, under new ownership, the US leadership is searching for a novel approach. As Russian foreign policy heavyweight Sergey […]

Notorious Scottish pedo gang jailed

Energy News Beat The ring of drug addicts committed some of the most depraved acts of child abuse, police said Seven Scottish pedophiles have been handed stiff prison terms for committing what authorities described as some of the most “monstrous” cases of child abuse. The six men and one woman were convicted in November after […]

WATCH robo-dog and drone fight (VIDEO)

Energy News Beat   A short clip making rounds on Chinese social media depicts the two machines firing pyrotechnics at each other A short video clip capturing a ‘firefight’ between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a robotic dog has been making rounds on Chinese social media. The UAV hovering about two meters (6.5 feet) above […]

Serbian deputy PM slams Russia’s exclusion from Holocaust commemoration

Energy News Beat Not inviting the country to the ceremony marking the liberation of Auschwitz risks fostering “new evil,” Aleksandar Vulin has warned Excluding Russia from the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation has turned the ceremony into a gathering of descendants of Holocaust perpetrators and their collaborators, Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin […]

SBI Leasing inks leasing deal for TMS LNG carrier

Energy News Beat The LNG carrier in question is the 174,000-cbm Athos LNG. SBI Leasing announced the deal with LNG Ships in a statement on Friday. However, the firm did not provide further details regarding the leasing agreement. Economou’s TMS Cardiff Gas took delivery of this LNG carrier in September last year. It is the […]

Trump ridicules Denmark’s military

Energy News Beat Copenhagen has announced plans to boost its military presence on the island, while reminding Washington “how good an ally” the country is Denmark is not capable of adequately protecting its strategically important territory of Greenland, US President Donald Trump has claimed. Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Saturday, Trump appeared to ridicule […]

US army needs huge shakeup – Vance

Energy News Beat The vice president has called for “big change” in the Pentagon, citing systemic cost overruns and recruitment issues The US has failed to win a single war in several generations despite spending staggering sums of money on its army, Vice President J.D. Vance has said, calling for a major military overhaul. In […]

Russia releases file on Polish-born Auschwitz Nazi collaborator

Energy News Beat   The publication of archive files coincides with the anniversary of the liberation of the death camp by Soviet troops Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has released declassified documents describing the involvement of a Polish Nazi collaborator in the mass executions at Auschwitz. The disclosure coincided with the 80th anniversary of the […]

France’s far-right asks EPP to end the Green Deal together

Energy News Beat   The President of France’s Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella, will send a letter to the President of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, asking to join forces to end the Green Deal. Bardella, chairman of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group at the European Parliament, will “suggest that we mutualise forces and […]