Without much fanfare, the Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy released a report on 2011 energy commodity prices yesterday. It confirmed that crude oil and key petroleum products set annually averaged price records last year. This largely snuck up on us, because it occurred without the kind... » read this article

(Reuters) - Canada will try to sell more of its energy products to Asia after Washington delayed a decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline project, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "This does underscore the necessity of Canada making sure that we are able to access... » read this article

Editor's Note: T.J. Coles' new essay, What Are We Doing in Afghanistan? is a follow-up to his October 14 article, What Have We Done to Afghanistan? Reviewing a Decade of Anglo-American Occupation.  He reveals the regression of the west from civilization itself in lust for petroleum and power. His highly... » read this article

September 26, 2011 - More than 200 people risked arrest on Parliament Hill in the largest climate-related civil disobedience action in Canadian history. The rally and the civil disobedience remained peaceful through the day-long event on the Hill. The main message of the action was to urge Prime Minister Harper... » read this article

"Critics say the existing Keystone pipeline, completed last year, has already spilled 21,000 gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, so extending it would cause other spills that would contaminate more groundwater. Also, they say that greenhouse gas emission from the development and use of tar sands are higher than... » read this article

So the US/NATO backed 'rebels' want to represent Libya at OPEC with Libya's traitor oil minister leading them. Ahem! There is plenty of between-the-lines reading in the two brief reports republished below. For weeks the corporate media has been reporting rumors that the Libyan Oil Minister, Shukri Ghanem had defected... » read this article

Interview with Álvaro Silva Calderón, former General Secretary of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) during the 2002-2003 period. Calderón discusses the U.S. State Department's recently imposed unilateral sanctions against Venezuela's PDVSA, the attack on OPEC and Venezuela's struggle to maintain sovereignty over its abundant natural resources.      “In... » read this article

Angela Merkel's government has decided to phase out nuclear power by 2022, in a reversal of its previous policy. German commentators are split over the wisdom of the decision, with one newspaper comparing the move to the fall of the Berlin Wall and another saying it will harm future generations.... » read this article

As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, without the landowners’ permission. Forced pooling is common in many established oil and gas states, but its use has... » read this article

For advice about life after graduation, students at Worcester Polytechnic wanted to hear from peak oil scholar Richard Heinberg instead of Exxon's CEO. Here's what he told them. Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA invited Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, to give the commencement speech at its 2011 graduation ceremonies... » read this article

While Americans are robbed at the gas pump, Exxon Mobil will this week report a 60% increase in its quarterly net profits to a cool $10 billion.  Royal Dutch/Shell will report a 30% increase. In 1975 British writer Anthony Sampson penned The Seven Sisters, bestowing a collective name on a... » read this article

By 20 April 2011 This article, the first of a four-part series marking the first anniversary of the BP Gulf oil disaster, reviews the systematic corporate and government cover-up of the BP disaster and its consequences. One year ago today, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the BP-run Deepwater... » read this article

To get to the quaint village of Fort McKay in the far north of Alberta, Canada, you first have to pass through some version of hell. Perched on the western shore of the Athabasca River, Ft. McKay is home to about 650 people, mostly Aboriginals from the Cree and Dene... » read this article

12 April 2011 Yesterday marked one month since the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated much of north-eastern Japan and produced the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. While Japanese politicians, officials and representatives of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) marked... » read this article

Editor's Note: This report on the rising price of gasoline is somewhat clever and a little bit tricky - because of an omission. The report cites the limited profits of local gas station owners and blames rising prices on oil producing countries, state and federal taxes and big petroleum corporations... » read this article

HAVANA, Apr 7, 2011 (IPS) - Cuba is sticking to its plans to begin oil exploration this year in its territorial waters in the Gulf of Mexico, and has assured neighbouring countries that "every reasonable" safety and environmental protection measure will be taken, in an area still haunted by the... » read this article

Havana, Mar 31 (Prensa Latina) The Disaster in Japan and a Visit from a Friend is the title of the latest reflection by leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro. Prensa Latina post below the full-text: (Translation provided by ESTI) Today I had the pleasure of greeting Jimmy Carter, who... » read this article

The world is exploding.  TomDispatch can’t cover it all. Still, a comment is in order on our Libyan intervention. As a start, it could be the first intervention that actually escalated before it even began.  It went from no-fly-zone to no-fly-no-drive-zone before a U.S. cruise missile was launched or a... » read this article

Twelve days are not nearly enough to comprehend the magnitude of the catastrophes that hit Japan starting March 11. From the children who lost parents in the crush of the earthquake, to those whose loved ones are still missing after the tsunami, to the scores of workers risking their health... » read this article

President Chávez has decided to freeze plans for developing a nuclear energy program in Venezuela. The government had plans to develop a nuclear plant over the next decade but a lesson is being taken from the current disaster in Japan. Anti-nuke organizations are applauding Chávez as once again, he has... » read this article