A draft report prepared ahead of a summit meeting of EU leaders in June has warned that Russia’s strategy of snapping up oil refineries around
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Bioenergy Push Leading to Massive Land Footprint
Biomass has been an increasingly prominent topic on the EU’s political agenda as the block’s current energy strategy emphasizes securing indigenous sources of power that
Poland’s Plan for Anti-Russia Gas Coalition Gaining Ground
The call of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, for the European Union to assume a unified position when dealing with Russian natural gas exporter Gazprom
Coal Usage on Rise as ETS Fails
Environmental campaigners noticed that the fresh figures on Europe’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) suggested that the ETS had remained over-supplied by 2.1 billion carbon allowances
Turkey Mine Blast: Over 200 dead and hundreds trapped
More than 200 coal miners were killed and many others were injured at an explosion that occurred Tuesday night at a mine in western Turkey.
EU Energy Security: Putting Eggs into More Baskets
Russia has always had important geopolitical interests on the European continent. Since Moscow launched the Nord Stream pipeline in 2011, the country has been entrenched
Estonia’s Become the 29th Member of International Energy Agency
Estonia has officially become the 29th member of the International Energy Agency (IEA) as the country completed the final steps towards full membership, IEA Executive
G7: Energy Should Not be Used As a Means of Political Coercion
The Energy ministers of the seven most industrialized countries in the world have agreed that “energy should not be used as a means of political
General Electric to Buy France’s Alstom for $17 billion
General Electric (GE), a US company, is considering buying the French engineering company Alstom for about 16.9 billion USD. GE is not the only major
UK Eco-Friendly Undersea Project Approved
The European Union has decided to approve the United Kingdom’s White Rose carbon capture and storage project (CCS), whose aim is to capture carbon dioxide