According to Financial Times horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques increased natural gas  reserves. Instead of importing liquefied gas, US becomes exporter. US prices $1 per m Btu is a third of prices in European markets and a sixth of gas sold in Japan at $15 per mBtu. However, despite all euphoria, drillers disregard that fracking is damaging the US underground layers. It destabilises structures built over billion of year. [1]

Rising demand for energy made Saudi Arabia to signe an agreement with China for cooperation in the development and use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Hashim Abdullah Yamani, president of King Abdullah City of Atomic and Renewable Energy, signed the nuclear agreement, placing the  highest priority on nuclear safety and environmental protection The Kingdom wants to cut its growing dependence on depleting resources. [1]

The study of Shindell et al. 2012, published at the Science Journal was written by researchers lobbying for Oil and coal giants. The researchers divert from the primary causes and focus on the effect of climate change. This is the classic media strategy of the carbon economy. This is also the strategy of the wreckful climate politics of Obama and his energy secretary Steven Chu based at the expenses of the rest of humanity. [1]

The World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2012 at Abu Dhabi will focus on renewable energy. Falling costs of wind turbines  and photovoltaic made nuclear energy to write red figures. France has to invest 10 billion Euro to update safety issues of its ageing nuclear power stations.  [1]

France plans a massive increase of wind power. In the following years five off-shore farms will be installed near the shores of  Normandy and Bretagne. This is an investment of ten billion Euro generating 3 GigaWatt in 2016. [1]

At the Asse mine, a former salt mine, research and development work is performed on the disposal of radioactive wastes in salt formations. The emplacement of radioactive wastes terminated in 1978. [1]

The Russian South Stream Gaspipeline will end in Italy and not in Austria [1]

The government of Japan reports that the shut down of the reactor has been achieved and temperatures are below100°C. Tepco, the owner of the power station, says it will take at least 10 years to remove the fuel rods, only then decommissioning can be started which will take another 20 years. There are 30 years ahead to solve the problem. [1]

According to Commerce and Industry Minister Abdullah Zainal Alireza Saudi Arabia invests more than $100 billion for 16 nuclear energy plants to be build in their country within the next few years,  to reduce crude oil consume. This move has quick money as target, because crude oil brings more money at the stock market. [1]

Mitsubishi and Areva will build three reactors in USA [1]
A consortium of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and France's Areva has two informal deals to build three reactors in the US, and is also bidding for a project in Finland.