Category: Energy News Beat

The Brief – Voting under totalitarian rule

Energy News Beat   When I think about the Russian elections, particularly the presidential one taking place this weekend, I cannot help but remember the totalitarian voting in which I participated as a youngster. We have already argued that Vladimir Putin’s regime should no longer be described as authoritarian: After the brutal aggression against Ukraine, […]

EU citizens care about animal welfare, but why is this not being translated into political action? [Promoted content]

Energy News Beat   Animal welfare is one of those rare issues that is neither left nor right. Across the political spectrum and irrespective of nationality, you’ll always find politicians who care about the plight of animals; it is certainly not the exclusive domain of the Greens and the Left. Dr. Joanna Swabe is senior […]

Hard-fought provision on the AI Act could become obsolete, experts say

Energy News Beat   A key provision in the EU’s AI rulebook to assess the risks of foundation models such as ChatGPT may become obsolete within a year due to the pace of developing technologies, experts told Euractiv. The EU’s AI Act is the world’s first comprehensive rulebook to regulate artificial intelligence. It does so […]

Hunter Biden, partners aided Chinese bid to corner nuclear energy market with U.S. tech, memos show

Energy News Beat While his father was still vice president, Hunter Biden and his business partners tried unsuccessfully to help a Chinese energy firm acquire one of the United States’ premier nuclear technology companies in a secret attempt to “control” the global market, according to new evidence turned over to Congress in President Joe Biden’s […]

Queen’s University, UBC, unveil C$2 million Don Lindsay Teck Award in mining engineering

Energy News Beat   ​[[{“value”:” Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A and TECK.B, NYSE: TECK), The University of British Columbia (UBC) and Queen’s University announced Wednesday the Don Lindsay Teck Award in Mining Engineering, comprised of two C$1 million endowments that will generate annual scholarships for students in mining engineering at both universities. The Don Lindsay Teck […]

Covert forms of sexual harassment remain an issue in Western Australia’s mining industry – study

Energy News Beat   ​[[{“value”:” Being put down or condescended to based on gender, and receiving offensive sexist remarks, remain common themes in Western Australia’s mining sector, the Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Program Landmark Study shows. The report was produced by the Centre for Transformative Work at Curtin University, whose researchers surveyed more than […]

Copper price soars to 7-month high on China’s plans to cut output

Energy News Beat Copper prices soared on Wednesday to their highest in seven months after Chinese smelters, which process half of the world’s mined copper, agreed on a joint production cut. Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) touched $8,799 a metric ton, the highest since Aug. 1, 2023. It last traded 1.6% up at […]

Oxy deploys “industry first” fully electric well service rig from Axis on Permian production wells

Energy News Beat (WO) – Axis Energy Services successfully deployed the oil and gas industry’s first fully electric well service rig on wells operated by Occidental. Axis’ EPIC RIG provides improvements in safety and efficiency, as well as the ability to run on grid power for reduced emissions and increased fuel flexibility. Axis’ EPIC RIG […]

Californians Paying 140% More For Electricity than Other States

Energy News Beat Electricity in Taft, California costs 275% more than what electricity costs in Bullhead City, Arizona. While residents of Los Angeles and San Francisco may feel comfortably smug hundreds of miles away from the Kern County city, it is rare to get a side-by-side comparison of energy bills in neighboring states. How could […]

The costs to New Yorkers of Cuomo’s crazy climate law keep rising

Energy News Beat State lawmakers voted for major cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and massive buildouts of wind turbines, solar panels, power lines and batteries by 2030 without knowing how it would work, let alone what it would cost. The 2019 bill, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, essentially wrote Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive branch a blank check, allowing […]