By SHAWN MCCARTHY, Toronto Globe and Mail

Turn off, tune out and unplug.
That's the advice from the International Energy Agency that is raising alarms about rising electricity consumption -- and resulting greenhouse-gas emissions -- from the global boom in home electronics.

The federal government is planning sweeping new climate-change regulations for the nation's electricity sector that will phase out traditional coal-fired power.

After eight years of Republican rule, environmentalists believe they have a keen ally moving into the White House Tuesday, and Canada's oil sands are high on their list of targets.
But they'll have to deal with Gen. James Jones.

An increasingly dismal outlook for the global economy has sent crude oil prices into a tailspin, and there appears to be little the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries can do but slow the fall.

Under the original optimistic plans, nearly half a million barrels a day of crude oil should now be flowing from Kazakhstan's Kashagan field, which contains the world's largest untapped reserves.

OTTAWA -- There was the Japanese corporate invasion in the 1980s, and the perceived threat from China this decade. Now, there is a new powerhouse moving over the horizon that is posing both opportunities and challenges to the West: the oil-rich nations of the Arabian peninsula.