OGPSS - Ukraine moves to escape Gazprom's grip

You know it is winter when Russia and Ukraine publically row about supplies of natural gas. On Tuesday Ukraine completed the signing of an ...

High Speed Rail - Europe and the American Election

It was President Obama who famously said, after the 2008 vote that “Elections have Consequences.” Well two years later that dictum still ap...

Gazprom and Ukraine - natural gas and the shale gas potential

Well now that is interesting. Quietly, while everyone’s attention was, increasingly focused either on the British Election or the oil spi...

Carbon Sequestration sites and their success

There are a number of questions on the ease with which carbon dioxide can be sequestered underground, and I alluded to some of them in yeste...

Pick Points from Poland

Well, I’m back in Poland after a quick trip to Stavanger, where the price of things was notably different. I suppose that comes with some of...

Coal, water and an Afghan problem of reality

It has been the first full day of the conference on innovations in coal production, and by the evening we delegates were ready for our eveni...

An international shortage

I am currently at a meeting in the Carpathian Mountains along with some 160 mining engineers from various parts of the world, and they are t...

Old and new thoughts on energy and transport in Poland

The first part of my travel is now complete, and I have reached a place with a slightly slower pace of life, and one that is a little cooler...

P55. Pick Points

Given the size of a couple of the stories a little less than half-a-dozen stories of interest today: Redoubt, the volcano in Alaska that wa...

P42. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Back in March Switzerland signed a deal with Iran for a 25-year supply of natural gas it appears th...