Earlier today Russia intervened dramatically in Ukraine’s political turmoil with an offer to sell the cash-strapped country deeply discounted natural gas. The New York Times captured the prevailing w…

A new paper by Cornell’s Robert Howarth, which claims that shale gas is worse for greenhouse gas emissions than coal, has been getting a lot of attention in the popular press. Howarth’s basic questio…

This Saturday FT story made little sense to me, apart from an ex post attempt to save face.   Better for the Chinese government to say the CNOOC's bid failed because it did not have a ton of governme…