There is a belief among conspiracy theorists that the US government recovered secret alien energy generation technology when a passing UFO crashed into the Nevada desert in 1947.  The reason, apparently, that we have not yet seen this energy technology is that “they” are determined to screw every last dollar …

There is something amiss with proposed fracking sites in Bridge Trafford and Barrow in Cheshire according to the Chester Chronical.  Both sites are just metres away from two fault lines that are known to be the epicentre of an earthquake which struck Chester in 1750.  This would suggest that these …

Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia are heating up as a result of informal Saudi sanctions designed to prevent Iran selling oil on world markets according to Anjli Raval in the Financial Times: “Iranian vessels carrying the country’s crude are restricted from entering ports in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, according to …

“Much as we would like to do something about climate change”, the economists tell us, “the damage this would do to energy companies and to the wider economy is simply too great.  We are just going to have to put up with a 4 to 6 degree global temperature rise …

The high cost of energy was one of the reasons given by Tata Steel for its decision to sell off its UK interests.  Now the government is under pressure to lower energy costs as part of a deal to find a buyer for the Tata plant in Port Talbot.  And Tata …

While the rest of the USA argues about whether climate change is happening, California has led the way in switching to renewable electricity generation.  The state’s Senate Bill 350 requires that half of its electricity will be generated by renewables by 2030.  It provides a model that many countries around …

The whole point of The Consciousness of Sheep is that we face an existential crisis resulting from a confluence of economic, energy and environmental crises.  There is no “solution” because the action we must take to mitigate any one of the crises worsens the crisis in another. The only way …

If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase at their present rate, then, in Antarctica alone, enough ice will have run into the sea by the end of the century to raise the high tide mark worldwide by a metre according to Tim Radford at Climate News Network. Until now, most …

while it is true that at the moment it is possible to buy cheaper steel elsewhere, this will not always be the case. Most commentators have already drawn the link between the manner in which government responded to the banking crisis and the way they are now responding to the …

In the wake of the financial crash of 2008, we witnessed scandal after scandal – PPI fraud, money laundering on behalf of terrorists and drug cartels, Libor and Forex rate fixing, etc.  A great deal of it was due to incompetence and a good part of it plain old fashioned …