Category: Energy News Beat

Next month could decide Ukraine conflict – Macron

Energy News Beat The time is not yet ripe for peace talks, but “fair and good negotiations” may be possible in the future, the French president says The Ukraine conflict could reach a turning point by the end of this year, French President Emmanuel Macron has predicted, several months into Kiev’s counteroffensive, which has so […]

Coming Soon: More Oil, Gas and Coal

Energy News Beat It’s no secret that fossil fuels are still going strong, as we discussed last month. But a new United Nations-backed report paints an alarming picture of how dramatically coal, oil and gas production is expected to grow in the coming years. If current projections hold, the United States will drill for more oil and gas […]

US credit rating downgraded to ‘negative’

Energy News Beat International credit rating agency Moody’s has changed its outlook on the US from “stable” to “negative,” citing massive fiscal deficits and a notable decline in debt affordability as major reasons for the move on Friday. The downgrade follows a similar announcement by fellow credit rating agency Fitch, which raised concerns over the […]

Daily Energy Standup Episode #249 – Weekly Recap: Wind Project Challenges, Pro-Nuclear Bills, LNG in Southeast Asia, Gas Discovery Operatorship Shift, Sinopec’s LNG Tank, Stellantis’ Hybrid Ram, Texas $10B Fund for Gas Plants

Energy News Beat Daily Standup Weekly Top Stories Daily Caller: Do Big Wind Project Cancellations Signal Peak Subsidy Has Been Reached? Will the IEA even admit the issue? November 5, 2023 Allen Santos ENB Pub Note: David Blackmon’s article from the Daily Caller is excellent, and we highly recommend that you follow the Daily Caller and […]

‘Nuclear warming’ is biggest global threat – Trump

Energy News Beat The incompetence of current Washington threatens WWIII, the 45th US president has argued The real threat to the world is not global warming but “nuclear warming” from a possible atomic war, former US President Donald Trump has said in an interview. He pointed to the Biden White House as the reason “everything […]

Has The US Lost Its First-World Status?

Energy News Beat Authored by Daniel Nuccio via The Brownstone Institute, Everything is dirty. Nothing works. But everything’s also more expensive. And oh, by the way, you don’t have privacy anymore… That is how I described life in the US to a friend who had been living abroad for a bit more than a decade […]

Pentagon Is Starting To Restrict Flow Of Military Aid To Ukraine As Money Runs Out

Energy News Beat No more green for Zelenskyy. With war funding for both Ukraine and Israel now seemingly snarled up beyond repair in Congress, on Thursday the Pentagon said that funding delays have forced the US to begin restricting the flow of military assistance to Ukraine, and the Pentagon has only $1 billion left to […]

Rising Inflation Expectations Heap More Risks To Treasury Market

Energy News Beat Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The market’s point of focus in the UMich data is the higher-than-expected inflation expectations figure, which potentially brings more risks to bonds. One-year inflation expectations rose to 4.4% from 4.2%. But more saliently for the bond market, the long-term median of inflation expectations rose to […]

How an Ohio-based steel company cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly a third

Energy News Beat ​Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs’ success in beating its goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its U.S. iron and steel operations won recognition from the Department of Energy last month. The progress is part of a broader industry trend to cut pollution that drives human-caused climate change. Yet advocates say there’s lots of room […]

German Gov’t Agrees To Bailout Giant Loss-Making Wind Farm, UK Increases Subsidies

Energy News Beat Reuters reports the German government, Siemens AG, and other parties will provide billions of euros in project-related guarantees to support Siemens AG’s struggling wind turbine division. This financial assistance comes just weeks after the company warned about mounting losses amid a meltdown across wind and solar industries. Three people familiar with the talks said that […]