In a few days, two major agreements have been concluded between, regarding the first one, the three quarters of the world population and for the other one countries producing more than one third of the total oil extracted in the world. In New York, during United Nations General Assembly, it has been recorded that a sufficient number of countries has ratified the Paris Agreement, concluded at the end of COP 21, to permit to it to enter in application. In the same time, in Algiers, leaders of OPEC reached an agreement to cap their production. Fossil fuels combustion is the ...

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European Commission has just announced the launch of a detailed inquiry regarding Areva restructuration. That’s all if needed. If there is one achievement France can be rightly proud about, along with high-speed trains and communication networks, it is its nuclear power production. It allowed us, since we don’t have any oil, natural gas or coal, to improve our trade balance, without emitting CO2 and providing consumers with unbeatable prices. Our German and Italian neighbors are paying for it between 50 and 80% more. So, for the last four years, this activity is undergoing constant political attacks. Areva which ...

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Every year, BP publishes its statistics which are an authority and which recount, country by country, the evolution for the last ten years of the production and the consumption of each category of energy. This year report brings the confirmation of a phenomenon which totally invalidates pessimistic forecasts of the last thirty years. We could even go back to the “club de Rome” studies according to which the resources of the planet being limited, we should be prepared to manage their scarcity, especially regarding oil and natural gas. Coal, temporarily, was not concerned by these analysis but the same reasoning ...

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