SCOTTISH & Newcastle joint owner Carlsberg has announced a deeply-discounted DKr30.5 billion (£3.2bn) rights issue to repay a bridging loan used to buy the Edinbur
BEEF producers in Scotland are most definitely relishing current returns, with the deadweight trade for the best prime cattle hovering around 270p per kilo, which is at leas
SHEEP farmers who have come to regard wool as little more than an expensive nuisance - with the annual cheque frequently failing to cover the cost of gathering and shearing th
TEXTILE giant, David Whitehead Textiles Limited (DWTL), was last week plunged into chaos after its 1 700 strong workforce went on strike to press for salary increments, The Financial Gazette has heard.
Canadian greenhouse gas emissions decreased 1.9 per cent in 2006 from the previous year to 721 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), according to new government data.
Reebok's NXT Speaker Backpack not only allows you to carry all your books and laptop in relative comfort, it even comes with an integrated stereo sound system for you to share your tunes with Joe public. Powered by a couple
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has placed an the largest ever order for wind turbines: he ordered 667 wind turbines from GE, each costing $3 million dollars, making the total order $2 billion. Picken plans to develop the world's largest
Today the United States lost one of its living legends, as Robert Mondavi died today at the age of 94. It's hard to understate the impact that Robert Mondavi had on the wine world. His name itself was, and still
Oil attracts the anger and the ink, but coal, mined here in the U.S., has joined the club of rudimentary resources blessed by the energy crisis. What we are paying up for is the dirtiest fossil fuel in the ground,
When it comes to high energy prices, OPEC is quickly losing its status as Public Enemy No. 1. Alongside Big Oil, where profits are fattening as gas prices rise, a new bogeyman has emerged: the oil speculator. With the stock
More than 200 communities in the English countryside may be sitting on billions of pounds of undiscovered oil, according to prospectors. Scores of greenfield sites across southern and eastern England are being mapped for viability as world oil prices soar.
British Airways will raise fares, slash flights and consider cutting its order of new aeroplanes as the flag carrier prepares to follow a year of record profits with its toughest 12 months since 2001. BA staff secured a £35m windfall
World oil demand is surging as supplies approach their limits. In 2000 a Saudi oil geologist named Sadad I. Al Husseini made a startling discovery. Husseini, then head of exploration and production for the state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, had
I use the phrase "Crunch Time" to denote the period after Peak Oil during which oil prices are so high due to production shortfalls that the normal functioning of economic activity is curtailed. Not only are the poor - and
Watch any talking head, and when the subject comes to energy, one can expect to hear the mantra, Americans are "addicted" to oil, and especially "foreign oil." This is repeated as though the repetition is proof that the premise is
Washington, D.C. - A bill introduced this week by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., would require oil, gas and mining companies to disclose to the Securities and Exchange Commission exactly how much they pay foreign governments for the extraction of natural
On Tuesday, Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would halt a US arms sale to Saudi Arabia worth $1.4 billion. The implication is clear: no more war toys for the Saudis unless they agree to up their oil output. The same
