Full Coverage: Energy

31.12.2005 The Chadian parliament has voted to scrap a fund set up to safeguard a portion of the country’s petrodollars for future generations, in a move the World Bank has called a "material breach" of a ground-breaking contract with donors.

28.12.2005 Environmentalists and business leaders are applauding politicians in seven northeast U.S. states for forming an alliance to mandate greenhouse gas emission reductions while keeping costs down.

23.12.2005 The UK is to spend £3.5 million over three years researching "clean coal" technologies with China with the aim of developing power stations that emit less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

19.12.2005 Contempt of court proceedings have been started against Shell Nigeria and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for failing to comply with a court order to stop flaring gas immediately in an area of Delta state. The court had ruled that flaring was a "gross violation" of the rights to life and dignity.

14.12.2005 A top oil official in the Republic of Congo has been secretly selling hundreds of millions of dollars in cut-price oil to private companies he himself owns, reports a investigative campaign group.

05.12.2005 Global Oil demand has already started to outstrip supply and world oil production will peak ("Peak Oil") during the current decade. This impending crisis will be discussed in London on 14 December.