It's your mess, now you pay for it. That's the message from African leaders to Western countries as they mull over a proposal to demand tens of billions of dollars in compensation – one figure muted is $67 billion a year, from developed ...

“This is an industry in crisis,” Amy Myers Jaffe, the associate director of Rice University’s energy program in Houston tells today’s New York Times.

The clock is ticking. And is getting faster. We are entering the most serious global crisis since the Great Depression, at the same time as we face unprecedented climate change.

There might be a “mine it flat” mentality in Alberta concerning tar sands, but one provincial government has just adopted a different approach to unconventional oil resources.

At the end of the day energy comes down to economics. Drilling oil out of the deserts of the Middle East is inherently more profitable than boiling them out of Canadian boreal forest. Any deal at Copenhagen will hinge on how much the rich are...

Ever since the dark days of the Bush Administration we have known that the US Administration, under pressure from its oil buddies, can manipulate data. But that was mainly to do with climate. We also know that the true amount of oil in the world’s...

A radical shake-up of Britain’s planning laws is going to be announced today which will make it easier for the government to fast-track or steam-roll large energy projects such as nuclear, gas or  power stations or even wind turbines. In all the...

Well you didn’t really believe that a global climate deal was on the cards at Copenhagen did you? Despite all the warnings that such is the urgency of the problem that a deal had to be made in Copenhagen, there will be no deal. Not for a year...

The tar sands may be doomed. Two of the key arguments against exploiting it are gaining traction, and both may be enough to scupper investment. Yesterday I blogged about how the idea of a carbon-constrained world, which could fatally undermine tar...