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“Where are we now? We’re back where we started.” So says Richard Lockwood, manager of London’s City Natural Resources fund - now part of CQS - a man who rode the recent commodities boom upwards in some style, and who appears to
Full story...The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has recently summarized the UK Government’s reasoning concerning Wind Power thus: “Britain faces an energy gap of up 32 GW by 2015 as older coal and nuclear power stations are paid off. At the
Full story...Sunny Tropicana: not a holiday destination but the site of a potentially significant new gold project that could become the scene of groundbreaking developments in mine solar power generation in Australia. Certainly, 70 per cent
Full story...Solar power was first observed in 1839 by Edmund Becquerel, who noted, “electric currents arose from certain light-induced chemical reactions”. But it was not until 1954 when three scientists working at Bell Labs (now Lucent) in
Full story...The commodity bull market has a long way to go. This bull market is not magic. It's not some crazy "cycle theory" I have. It does not fall out of the sky. It's supply and demand. It's simple stuff.
Full story...Bringing the crops through to harvest is difficult enough this century. Weather patterns have created havoc for farmers the breadth of the globe. For the Georgia farmers for whom, against the trends elsewhere, growing conditions
Full story...If you were to believe most investment discussion boards or perhaps those conferences that cover the Aim-end of the oil & gas market, then the ‘sexy’ companies are those that are pursuing exploration in exotic faraway places –
Full story...Most industry pundits agree that given current global consumption of just over 100 trillion cubic feet (tcf) per year likely to increase to around 160tcf per year by 2030, the world has between 60 and several hundred years of
Full story...A dual listing in London for less than £85,000? Yes, less than £85,000 and that includes lawyers’ and accountants’ fees as well as the charges made by a broker and by PLUS Markets Group. PLUS is a Recognised Investment Exchange,
Full story...Without raising the arguments about the existence and causes of global warming, perhaps we can all agree that it would be sensible to find ‘power alternatives’ which do not involve burning increasingly scarce fossil fuels and
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