Tony Blair said Wednesday Britain must look at a new generation of nuclear power stations to guarantee its future energy supplies. Blair reopened the debate over nuclear power in an opinion piece in The Times newspaper before the publication of a new government energy strategy report on Wednesday. The report is expected to also encourage wind and solar power.

Cape Wind "Church Lady" on Diane Rhem's Show but not on local affiliates causes what Cape Wind proponents claim, "a windstorm of protest".

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says he has signed a deal with Iran to jointly develop an oil field in the Islamic Republic. Mr. Lukashenko announced the deal Monday in Minsk, following talks with visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The leaders gave no details of the project at the Jofeir oil field.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad arrived in Belarus today for two days of meetings that will include talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alyaksandr Lukashenka. On at least one issue, Ahmadinejad and Lukashenka see eye to eye -- their mutual antipathy toward the United States.

Before destroying another landscape, natural habitat, community, or human life, we need to seriously assess the claims made to promote and defend industrial wind energy development.

Industrial wind farms, like the Cape Wind project, are on the rise and along with them public protest and opposition. Is it anti-environnmental to even question much less object? Not at all. In fact, questioning wind power does not mean anti-environment and in fact the opposite is most often the case. Those that question are those that care or they wouldn't be involved in the debate at all.

The EU's long-strained relationship with Russia has hit a new low. On the eve of a summit in the southern Russian city of Samara on May 18, there is much that divides the EU and Russia: energy politics, a Russian ban of Polish meat, the future status of Kosovo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin last week clinched a deal that, at least on paper, ensures that his country will remain the world's largest natural-gas exporter for many years to come. Whether Russia will be able to capitalize on the short-term political dividends it may expect from this arrangement remains unclear, however.

Azerbaijan's industry and energy minister has said that, despite Kazakhstan's recent pledges to continue to export most of its oil through Russia, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is still available to transit Kazakh oil.

Leading U.S. and Georgian officials are issuing fresh warnings about the dangers to Europe of relying too heavily on energy supplies controlled by Russia. The warnings follow an agreement between Russia and resource-rich Central Asian states Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a new pipeline to carry natural gas to Europe via Russia.

The European Union said that it will strengthen its cooperation with Black Sea nations in the fields of energy and other. Europe is quite troubled with Moscow's influence over this energy-rich region.

While reasserting the policy of neutrality of his predecessor, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has signaled a desire to end Turkmenistan's self-isolation and to repair ties with its Central Asian neighbors. He has also indicated that he is willing to engage more actively with Russia and reach out to the West.