Category: Energy News Beat

Winter Woes – Green New Deal Turns Deadly

Energy News Beat Over 150 million Americans are under a winter chill advisory due to life-threatening temperatures. Every state besides Hawaii has issued some form of caution to residents as nearly 80% of the nation faces below-freezing weather. Extreme weather highlights the importance of fossil fuels, as there is NO reliable alternative. Texas is on […]

Wyoming Oil And Gas Stand To Lose $900M, 3,000 Jobs Under BLM Plan

Energy News Beat Wyoming’s oil and gas industry could get slammed by more than $900 million in lost revenue and lose nearly 3,000 jobs under proposed changes in how federal land is managed in southwestern Wyoming. The industry hasn’t ruled out the possibility of litigation to challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s “flawed data” used […]

What do angry farmers in Nevada and Germany have in common? They’re being exploited by the far right

Energy News Beat When environmental activists calling for less pollution sit in the streets, across Europe they are now abused and attacked, arrested and handed extreme and draconian sentences. When farmers contesting pollution rules block entire city centres and major roads and spray manure on government buildings, the authorities sit and wait for them to go home. Few, if any, […]

Why Did Saudi Arabia Clarify That It Hasn’t Yet Accepted BRICS Membership?

Energy News Beat It can plausibly be hypothesized that Saudi Arabia’s unexpected decision to delay formal membership in BRICS is due to Western perceptions about this association, Iran’s involvement in the Red Sea Crisis, and Israeli-US pressure. Saudi Commerce Minister Majid Al-Kasabi clarified on the sidelines of last week’s Davos Summit that his country hasn’t yet accepted […]

Biden Won’t Be Removed For Corruption In Ukraine But New Allegations Can Still Have An Impact

Energy News Beat The Republicans could make support for more Ukrainian aid conditional on a joint investigation into these claims and thus doom any deal and/or the Biden Administration or the Zelensky regime could leak evidence if the other doesn’t do their bidding given their blackmail of one another due to these joint crimes. Former […]

India will ‘commission a nuclear power reactor every year’: NPCIL chief

Energy News Beat On December 17, 2023, India’s largest indigenously developed 700-MWe pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) – the fourth unit in Kakrapar, Gujarat – attained criticality. Six months earlier, another 700-MWe unit in the same facility had started producing commercial electricity. In 2024, another unit with the same capacity is expected to be commissioned in […]

Swedish government scraps United Nations’ Agenda 2030 goals

Energy News Beat Sweden has been doing a lot of things right lately. They have already scrapped the renewable energy plans and have been pushing for more nuclear power. In the new year, Sweden removed climate taxes on fuel, causing diesel prices to collapse by over 4 SEK (€0.35) per liter. In 2022, when the […]

OPEC Chief Says Oil Demand Will Defy Predictions of a Peak

Energy News Beat OPEC’s top official said forecasts that oil demand is heading toward a peak will prove just as misguided as earlier predictions that supply was reaching its zenith. “Ultimately, peak oil supply has never come to pass, and predictions of peak oil demand are following a similar trend,” Secretary-General Haitham Al Ghais said […]

LNS picks up multi-billion deal for project designed to reinforce Norway’s gas supplier position

Energy News Beat Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has hand-picked Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner (LNS), headquartered in Andøy in Nordland county, for work at its Snøhvit Future project, which is expected to fortify Norway’s position as a reliable long-term supplier of gas produced with very low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while securing jobs in the […]

China’s Coal Production Hit A New Record High In 2023

Energy News Beat Higher power demand and efforts to boost energy security pushed China’s coal production to a record-high level in 2023, according to official statistics data published on Wednesday. Chinese coal output rose by 2.9% year-over-year to 4.66 billion metric tons in 2023, per data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported by Reuters. Coal imports […]