Category: Energy News Beat

ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO, Darren Woods, talks about reframing the climate challenge during the APEC CEO Summit

Energy News Beat Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Like all of us, I wear many hats. In my professional life, I’m the CEO of ExxonMobil, one of the largest investor-owned companies in the world. By training, I’m an engineer, which in many ways is how I still see myself […]

#154 Kevin Hokett, President, American Safety Services – Live in the Permian Oil Show – Saving lives everyday.

Energy News Beat Podcasts are always fun, and today is no exception. I had the opportunity to visit with Kevin Hokett, President, and Noah Dean, Business Development of American Safety Services. We were live at the Permian International Oil Show, and It was a blast. Kevin and Noah’s experience in the oil and gas market […]

Billionaire Funds the Guardian to Tune of $116 Per Reader of Print Edition

Energy News Beat In 2021 the Guardian ran a series of adverts claiming the newspaper was “not funded by billionaires”, and “our readers’ backing gives us the independence to hold the powerful to account”. Not perhaps all the powerful. The Guardian is backed by a number of billionaire philanthropic foundations, including the European Climate Fund and the Rockefeller Family […]

Experts raise alarm after Biden strikes agreement with China to shut down fossil fuels

Energy News Beat U.S. energy experts are warning of the economic and national security implications of President Biden’s pact with China this week to move towards shutting down fossil fuel production in favor of green energy. The State Department announced this week it had struck a deal with its Chinese counterparts pledging to “accelerate the substitution for […]

Why is Ukraine now claiming its disastrous counteroffensive was only a smokescreen?

Energy News Beat 16 Nov, 2023 20:24 HomeRussia & FSU Kiev’s propagandists are trying to deny the reality that Russia is gaining the edge on the battlefield A few days ago, the Kiev TV channel 1 + 1 reported that the Ukrainian army did not conduct a counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, and all […]

Pro-Palestinian protest leads to lockdown at US Capitol

Energy News Beat A demonstration outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington has turned violent A protest in Washington – described by one US lawmaker as “pro-terrorist” and “anti-Israel” – has turned violent, prompting a lockdown of congressional offices and evacuations of politicians from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters. Demonstrators demanding a ceasefire […]

Russian artist jailed for seven years over anti-war price tag protest

Energy News Beat Russian artist Alexandra Skochilenko has been sentenced to jail for seven years after being found guilty of spreading “false information” about the Russian military by replacing a handful of supermarket price tags with messages criticising the war in Ukraine. The 33-year-old, known as Sasha, is one of thousands of Russians to be […]

Man arrested over Jewish protester’s death during pro-Palestinian rally

Energy News Beat News|Crime A California university professor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish protester during duelling pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel rallies. Paul Kessler, 69, died after falling and hitting his head during protests over the Israel-Hamas war earlier this month near Los Angeles. list of 4 items […]

Belarus linked to forcible transfer of Ukrainian children: Study

Energy News Beat Belarus has been collaborating with Moscow in the forcible transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied Ukraine in a programme “directly overseen” by the country’s President Alexander Lukashenko, according to research from Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL). The report (PDF), released on Thursday, said at least 2,442 […]

Russia loads missile with nuclear-capable glide vehicle into launch silo

Energy News Beat News|Weapons Russia’s rocket forces have loaded an intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with the nuclear-capable Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle into a launch silo in southern Russia, according to a Defence Ministry TV channel broadcast. President Vladimir Putin announced the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle in 2018, saying it was a response to the development […]