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ENERGY-AFRICA: From Kerosene to the LED, O-HUB and O-BOX
By Stephen Leahy
ACCRA - In many of Africa's towns and villages, smoky kerosene lamps are all that keeps the darkness at bay after sunset. However, kerosene is a dangerous and increasingly expensive source of light for Africans who do not have access to electricity -- about three-quarters of those living on the continent, according to the World Bank.
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MEXICO: Pemex Oozes Corruption
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - Funds belonging to the Mexican state oil monopoly, Pemex, have paid in recent years for liposuction treatment for the wife of the company’s chief executive, a presidential candidate’s campaign, contracts with firms facing legal action, and the whims of trade union leaders who are not required to account for their expenses.
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MIDEAST: Too Quiet in the Harbour
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - It's been strangely quiet for some time at the port in Gaza. No clanging of hooks, no sounds of creaking cranes or of thumping of nets upon decks. Boat engines, normally puttering and spewing exhaust, lie entombed under covers.
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EUROPE: Warnings Against Biofuels Get Louder
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - European efforts to promote biofuels should be rethought because of the contribution they have made to rising food prices, according to Jeffrey Sachs, a top economic advisor to the United Nations.
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ENERGY: World Bank, IFC Seek Investors in Off-Grid Africa
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON - An international campaign to bring modern lighting to one-fourth of Africa's people enters a new phase this week with talks to draw investors to markets beyond the reach of the continent's outdated power grid.
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INDIA/IRAN: Course Correction
Analysis by Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI - Relations between India and Iran, which deteriorated over the past three years from traditional friendship and warmth into mutual suspicion and tension, have started looking up again.
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POLITICS-US: Economy High in Public's Foreign Policy Worries
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - The price of oil and other international economic issues are rapidly taking centre stage among the dominant foreign policy concerns of the U.S. public, which has also become increasingly sceptical about the effectiveness of military action to further Washington's interests abroad, according to a major new survey released Wednesday by the influential Foreign Affairs journal.
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BURMA: US Oil Major Complicit in Abuses - Rights Lobby
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - An environmental group is warning U.S. energy giant Chevron to clean up its act in Burma or face legal proceedings where the multinational’s links to gross human rights violations in the military-ruled country could be exposed.
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FINANCE: Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON - Leading oil firms impede efforts to stamp out poverty and corruption by shrouding their financial dealings in secrecy, says a global watchdog.
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CHILE: Environmentalists Withdraw Backing from Government
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Twenty-three environmental groups in Chile withdrew their support from President Michelle Bachelet, complaining that she had failed to live up to an agreement they had signed with her during her election campaign.
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ECONOMY-MEXICO: Sunny Today, Cloudy Tomorrow
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - So far, the Mexican economy has not fallen prey to the ills affecting its principal trading partner, the United States, and is surviving internal political tensions arising from government initiatives to reform the state-owned oil company. But conditions could deteriorate in the second half of the year.
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CHINA: High on Ethanol Despite Rising Food Prices
By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING - Studies debunking the environmental benefits of ethanol have made little impression in this country, which is betting on bio-fuels as the green answer to coal and oil to help clear its increasingly smog-filled skies.
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ECONOMY: Gov'ts Must Act to Replace Oil, Poll Finds
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Global public opinion believes that the world is running out of oil and that governments should be doing more to replace it as humanity's main source of energy, according to a major international survey released here Sunday by WorldPublicOpinion.org.
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LATIN AMERICA: Reconciling Oil and the Environment
By Humberto Márquez*
CARACAS - Years of public scrutiny, ever-newer technologies, more government regulations, notions of corporate responsibility and the market-driven need for greater efficiency are all factors behind improvements in the environmental policies of Latin America's petroleum industry.
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ENVIRONMENT: But What Is Good About Biofuels?
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - The German government decision two weeks back against increased use of biofuels was based on technical reasons -- more than three millions vehicles cannot burn biofuels without risking engine breakdown.
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SPAIN: Warning of Radioactive Leak Comes Five Months Late
By Alicia Fraerman
MADRID - Failure to inform the authorities and take safety measures after a radioactive leak at a Spanish nuclear plant nearly five months ago has alarmed people in nearby towns, environmentalists and civil society organisations.
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The war in Iraq, fear of one in Iran. Uncertainties in Europe over gas dependence on Russia. Greenhouse gases and the consequent fear of climate change. The battle over sources to power development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The nuclear option, and its own dangers. One crisis after another round the world is at heart an energy crisis.