Shell Chemicals, coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, ethane shortage, reverse globalisation, New York Tiimes
Asian Chemical Connections
Can I have those coconuts, please?
Winston Churchill, Joseph Kennedy, David Strahan,The Last Oil Shock, New Scientist, Google, YouTube, Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical
The river doesn’t just run black
Billy Connolly, The Climate Group, harmonious society, Den Xiaoping, leftover venison, BP, Dow Chemical
Filled Up With Faith
divine intervention, gasoline, the power of prayer, upsize,
The West can still be the best
It is very easy assume that Asia ex-Japan will eventually catch up with the West and become as good at “solution” chemicals as the West. I am excluding Japan because it has long been a major speciality player. All the money that China, for example, is pouring into its state-run research institutes would seem to […]
The CO2 blame game
In my previous post, I talked about the collapse of the Doha round of trade negotiations and how this didn’t auger well for a new global agreement for setting greenhouse gas-emission limits and a worldwide price on carbon. The chemicals industry needs clarity. A global price for carbon would enable companies to plan R&D investments […]
Why the Doha failure is bad
The failure, and quite possibly the death, of the Doha round of trade negotiations earlier this week could create a very confusing and erratic regulatory landscape for the chemicals industry. This excellent entry in the New Scientist environment blog by Fred Pearce, senior environment correspondent, makes the point that if the world cannot agree on […]
The US gets my goat
The expression “tthis really gets my goat” is in common usage in Northern England, where I hail from. Indeed, despite spending 11 years in Singapore, few people other than my wife (who is Scottish and has an even worse accent and some even stranger expressions) can understand a word I say. Anyway, the point is […]
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