Energy News Beat The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has thrust climate change into the limelight as leaders grapple with the pressing challenges outlined in the WEF’s Global Risks report. With COP28 fresh in memory and the climate crisis topping the list of the next decade’s biggest risks, governments and business […]
Energy News Beat AI-powered lies and manipulation constitute the gravest threat to humanity. At least this is the dystopian scenario espoused by the collective wisdom of 1,500 experts surveyed in the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Global Risks Report last week. Unfortunately, such outbreaks of “elite panic” are a recurring phenomenon. Whenever the public sphere is expanded through […]
Energy News Beat Saturday night, the middle of the cold snap, was something to be endured. Things break at -36 degrees. A quick run to the grocery store was rerouted by a fleet of city vehicles tearing up the street in a considerable manner, most likely chasing a broken water main or some such. Imagine […]
Energy News Beat Desperate Tesla owners in and around Chicago were seen trying to charge their vehicles with no luck amid frigid temperatures that have gripped the Midwest. Charging stations have essentially turned into car graveyards in recent days as temperatures have dropped to the negative double digits, Fox Chicago reported. “Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent,” Tyler […]
Energy News Beat As the Biden administration and governments worldwide make massive commitments to rapidly decarbonize the global economy, the persistent effort to silence climate change skeptics is intensifying – and the critics keep pushing back. This summer the International Monetary Fund summarily canceled a presentation by John Clauser, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who publicly disavows the existence […]
Energy News Beat Nasdaq U.S. natural gas output fell to a preliminary 11-month low on Sunday as frigid weather froze wells across the country, while gas demand for heating and power generation was on track to hit record highs. In Texas the state’s power grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), forecast electric demand […]
Energy News Beat Oil Price Hours after targeting a U.S. warship with a cruise missile in the Red Sea, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis fired a missile and struck a U.S.-owned merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden, giving further momentum to the escalation of this conflict. Early on Monday, the Houthis fired a missile at the […]
Energy News Beat Oil Price Freezing temperatures have slashed North Dakota’s crude oil production by up to 280,000 barrels per day (bpd) in recent days, according to estimates from the North Dakota Pipeline Authority as of Sunday, reported by Reuters. Natural gas production in North Dakota also fell, due to the Arctic blast and frigid weather that […]
Energy News Beat Daily Standup Top Stories Winter Freeze Cuts U.S. Natural Gas Output January 15, 2024 Mariel Alumit Sub-zero temperatures in much of the United States have frozen gas wells, leading to the drop in production to the lowest in 11 months, Reuters has reported, citing local data. The report added that demand for […] BlackRock Scoops […]
Energy News Beat Condo prices in Toronto carve out two-year low, house prices just a hair behind. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. House prices in Canada have now fallen by 18% from the peak in March 2022 – or by $171,500 (all in Canadian dollars) – after the 1.2% drop in December from November, the sixth month-to-month […]
