Japan’s green ambitions threaten the LNG market it helped create
The country, the world’s top LNG importer, called for more renewables such as wind and solar to replace natural gas in a revised plan released last week.
Japan sets 60% target for nonfossil fuel energy sources by fiscal 2030
Difficulties boosting nuclear power and increasing solar and off-shore wind mean the new energy plan's goals will be difficult to achieve, experts say.
Oil drillers and bitcoin miners bond over natural gas
The global bitcoin industry’s overall carbon dioxide emissions have risen to 60 million tons, equal to the exhaust from about 9 million cars.
Japan to bolster support for Asia's shift to LNG for power generation
The government hopes to establish a market for the fuel with more flexible pricing, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
Japan's stressed power grid faces new test with Arctic blast on way
While Japan is unlikely to see millions plunged into blackouts as in the U.S. currently, the country narrowly avoided power cuts only last month in another wintry spell.
Beijing’s coldest spell since 1966 is spurring energy prices
Energy market turmoil in the world’s biggest consumer market is underscoring the chaos a bitterly cold winter is causing across North Asia.
Longest Arctic sailing season tops off a year of climate disasters
Thinning ice in the Arctic Ocean made this year’s navigation season for tankers the longest on record, a sign that the pace of climate change is accelerating in the northernmost latitudes.
Hydrogen’s future may follow path blazed by natural gas
Following natural gas’s lead, Japan is preparing to trial imports from Australia of superchilled liquid hydrogen.
Japan joins $14.4 billion syndicated loan for LNG project in Africa's Mozambique
The project is meant to reduce Japan's heavy reliance on the Middle East for LNG supply.
Canada's indigenous lead climate charge with rail blockade over pipeline plan, put Trudeau in a bind
Canadian indigenous groups are leading the charge against fossil-fuel development in a country with the world's third-largest proven oil reserves, using rail blockades as leverage and putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a bind. Members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation in British Columbia have been fighting ...
From Texas to Tokyo, global LNG market poised for terrible year
Liquefied natural gas prices are poised to test record lows this year thanks to an onslaught of supply and warmer temperatures, throwing up risks and opportunities for the producers, buyers and traders behind the world's fastest-growing fossil fuel. The startup of new export projects from ...
Some Kyushu Electric coal ships to use LNG, cutting emissions by 20%
Kyushu Electric Power Co. will start using vessels powered by liquefied natural gas to transport coal for thermal power generation, resulting in reduced carbon emissions from shipping. The utility said Wednesday that Nippon Yusen K.K. and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. will separately order the LNG-burning ...
