Average price hit 147.94p a litre on Sunday, up by 30p over the past yearUK diesel prices have reached a record high at the pumps, one week after petrol prices hit their highest ever level in a blow to hard-hit households and small businesses.About 12….
How startups are turning data into software gold
Storing great pools of data is an increasingly figured-out challenge. Between public clouds, and data lakes more specifically, you can stick oceans of corporate data in any number of places. But leveraging that data into something useful is another challenge altogether. The analogy that data is this era’s oil is at best half-baked. Oil takes […]
UK’s supply chain crisis hits business growth and consumer confidence – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsBDO: Output growth across UK businesses lowest since lockdownPwC: Consumer confidence hit by inflation, energy crisis and HGV driver shortagesEnergy crisis: Treasury reprimands Kwarteng after he…
Johnson’s backing for the Cambo oilfield is unscientific and potentially disastrous | Peter Capaldi
The government should be supporting green jobs for fossil fuel workers, not deepening our dependency on oil and gasIn three weeks’ time world leaders will gather in my hometown of Glasgow to talk about the biggest threat to our future: the climate cris…
Why California’s enormous oil spill won’t be its last
The state’s ageing oil infrastructure means more disasters are likely as companies move away from fossil fuelsA gash in an underwater pipeline sent tens of thousands of gallons of oil rushing into the waters near Los Angeles last weekend, blackening be…
Canada invokes 1977 treaty with US as dispute over pipeline intensifies
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer says Line 5 of pipeline is a ‘ticking time bomb’ and has ordered it shut down The Canadian government has invoked a decades-old treaty with the United States in its latest bid to save a pipeline that critics warn coul…
UK petrol prices are closing in on all-time high, warns RAC
Cost per litre nears the record 142.48 set in April 2012, stoked by global demand outpacing supply rather than UK fuel shortagePetrol prices could reach all-time highs before Christmas, the RAC warned, signalling “misery” for motorists still reeling fr…
Officials knew of California oil spill 12 hours before cleanup began
Authorities face questions over how much damage could have been prevented after 126,000 gallons of crude seeped into oceanMore than 12 hours passed after officials were notified of a sheen on the water off the coast of southern California before a resp…
A catastrophe
The Ship that Became a Bomb Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die. SL NewYorker. So much more to this story than “just” a leaking oil tanke…
UK fuel crisis ‘could go on for further week’ despite military help
One in five forecourts in London and south-east of England still out of fuelThe UK fuel crisis could run another week, fuel retailers have warned, as military tanker drivers took to the roads to relieve pressure on petrol stations.One in five forecourt…