As Washington hunts ill-defined al-Qaeda groups in the Middle East and Africa, and concerns itself with Iran's eventual nuclear potential, it has a much more pressing problem at home: Its energy grid is vulnerable to anyone with basic weapons and know-how.

Over the past decade, the EPA has apparently been paying hundreds of people $12 an hour for the privilege of exposing them to high levels of air pollutants like diesel exhaust and PM2.5 particulate matter.

The leading Canadian junior oil companies are doing whatever they can to create value for their shareholders.

The "shale revolution" has been grabbing a great deal of headlines for some time now.

IEA spins oil stats to make US top 'oil' producer.

Risk perception isn't what it used to be. Ask the swelling ranks of Canadian junior oil and gas companies braving high-risk venues like Sudan, Iraq and even Yemen.

The possibility of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India grows every day.

The conservative government of Canada has been assiduously touting China as a vast new potential energy market for Canada’s hydrocarbon exports.

The largest fines of £20,000 were handed out to BP in 2002 for spilling 28,000 tonnes of diesel from its Forties Alpha platform, and to Total in 2003 for spilling six tonnes of diesel from its Alwyn North platform.

IHS, in a study published on what it says is the new American future, finds that the upstream unconventional oil and natural gas sector in the United States could support as many as 3.5 million jobs by 2035.

US oil output is surging as an amazing pace thanks to high prices and new drilling methods.

We were fortunate enough to speak with the well known economist Ed Dolan on various energy and economic issues.