Following on from Daniel’s post this morning about a more inward looking America, Daniel Yergin has a very interesting essay in the Washington Post about how the changing balance of the US’s energy supplies are going to change its geo-strategic priorities. Yergin makes the point that by 2020, Canada could be a bigger oil producer than Iran and Brazil could be producing more than half o...

BRITISH anxiety about Russia's tightening grip on Europe's energy supplies is revealed in leaked US diplomatic cables obtained by The Scotsman.

The boss of one of Scotland's most successful companies has warned MSPs that urgent action is needed to secure the country's energy supply.

Dr Ashti Hawrami is Minister for Energy Resources for the KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) and will be speaking alongside Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt and Nadhim Zahawi MP at a fringe meeting tomorrow, October 5th in the Symphony Hall Foyer,...

While all eyes are focused on the oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, across the Atlantic, potentially more devastating spills threaten the Nigerian Delta. The MEND has resumed attacks on oil companies and is wreaking its own brand of ecological and economic warfare against the Nigerian government, and the world's energy supplies. MEND's tactics against oil production include a combinat...

As we approach the end of winter, fears about energy security will start to recede. Yet we need to think long and hard about our energy supplies over the coming decade. As our aged nuclear power stations reach the end...

Richard North has written on the Daily Mail piece I referred to in the previous post. Tie it in with the way we are mis-managing our energy supplies, he writes, and we are looking at a slow-motion economic catastrophe far greater than the economic crisis we are weathering, the overall costs of which are set to exceed the entire tax bill for the average household. This puzzles him. The political cl...

The Tory plan to sweep away the system being introduced by Labour could hold up investment needed to secure Britain's energy supplies and meet carbon targets, industry heads warn

The biggest upheaval in energy supplies will be launched by the government as it plans to put an electricity and gas meter in every household by 2020

Britain's failure to invest in new gas storage capacity has left the country vulnerable to peak winter supply interruptions, argues Conservative MP Stephen Crabb ahead of his Westminster Hall debate on the issue.