It is reported by media that as energy policy quickly emerges as a hot topic of debate on the minds of voters in the 2008 presidential election, the oil and gas exploration industry has been thrust into the spotlight. For better or for worse, this theme will remain dominant for some time to come, and [...]

Uranium Hunter Corporation is pleased to announce that the company’s helicopter airborne magnetic and radiometric survey, conducted by New Resolution Geophysics (”NRG”) of South Africa, has concluded. The 1000 line kilometer survey flown over the Ruhuhu Concession, which is considered one of the most promising uranium sites in the world, aimed to delineate uranium [...]

A new survey from Public Agenda and the publication Foreign Affairs finds U.S. dependence on foreign oil a top national security concern for Americans.
The sixth edition of the Confidence in Foreign Policy Index, which tracks attitudes on over 110 items related to foreign policy, shows about 60 percent of Americans think reducing energy dependence would [...]

North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.
A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency’s 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels [...]

Lobbyists have reported spending more than $789,000 during the ongoing debate over two proposed coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas, most of it on efforts to sway public opinion.
Opponents of the plants initially reported putting far more money into their public relations campaign. But since the year began, supporters have reported six times as much [...]

Oil prices hit a record 111.00 dollars per barrel Thursday amid an accelerating price rally which traders say has been fueled by a sharp fall in the value of the US dollar and supply concerns.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said speculators were largely responsible for the price peaks as some analysts cautioned that the [...]

Some 1,500 coal miners staged a mass rally on Thursday on the front lawn of the state Capitol to protest legislation that they fear could eliminate their jobs.
The rally came two days after lawmakers narrowly defeated a bill aimed at stopping mining companies from blasting off mountaintops to expose coal deposits.
Gov. Steve Beshear made a [...]

Even before Gov. Ernie Fletcher asked the General Assembly to approve incentives to attract coal-conversion plants to Kentucky, his administration had quietly committed at least $2.4 million to two such projects.
Without a public announcement, the state awarded a contract in May to Peabody Energy for $400,000 to conduct a feasibility study on a $3 billion [...]

The Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading independent research organization, is soliciting responses to its first international upstream petroleum survey.
Based on the popular Fraser Institute Survey of Mining Companies, the Worldwide Upstream Petroleum Survey is designed to help measure and rank the investment climate of various oil and gas producing regions.
“The information we get from the companies [...]

A revival of the coal industry in Wales was put forward as a possibility by Peter Hain today.
The Secretary of State for Wales said: “Fossil fuels are going to provide us with the bulk of our energy for the foreseeable future, coal included, so if we are going to tackle the urgent problem of climate [...]