Category Archives: Wall Street Journal
An Energy-Policy Rethink Is Required
By DAN LEWIS As much of northwestern Europe basks in a cold and unusually white Christmas, the continent’s failure to confront its urgent energy-security concerns is a disgrace. The old continent continues to be squeezed from two directions— internally by the inefficacy and high costs of its own policies and externally by its increasing energy imports [...]
Green Ink: China Sank the Climate Deal – Environmental Capital – WSJ
By Keith Johnson Crude oil futures neared $75 a barrel ahead of an expected decline in U.S. oil inventories, Bloomberg reports. China makes another move to ensure energy supplies, signing a deal with Venezuela to help develop offshore oil fields, in the WSJ. With Iraqi elections looming, the country has another chance to put its oil wealth [...]
After Copenhagen, Is It Time for Geo-Engineering? – Environmental Capital – WSJ
By Keith Johnson The debacle in Copenhagen already spawned one cottage industry—the blame game. The fiasco might have another, longer-lasting effect: Giving fresh momentum to geo-engineering. The idea of tinkering with the earth’s climate to keep temperatures down—whether that means seeding clouds, spraying particles into the atmosphere, or building huge sunshades—already had appeal in certain circles. [...]