Editorial

Cooling the planet at the gas roots

For years, the task of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions was seen as a job mainly for central governments… But with the major emitters such as the US and China outside the treaty, and with the Kyoto nations failing to meet their 2012 goals, the idea of millions of self- sacrificing individuals taking responsibility for their own energy-excessive lives seems like The Next Best Thing.

November 1, 2006

Petrol prices signal the need to prepare for change

The question of when oil production will peak (some analysts even say it has) is a highly uncertain one, but it can no longer be safely assumed that there is plenty more, at an affordable price. Australia must urgently assess the full extent of its oil vulnerability, across all industries and sectors. [Important editorial from one of Australia’s most influential newspapers]

April 22, 2006

Newsday editorial on peak oil

Brace for $100-a-barrel oil – and the sacrifices required to put in place a national policy for energy alternatives. The world is nowhere near running out of oil soon. But there is a general agreement that it’s close to reaching peak oil production.

April 22, 2006

How dare they use our oil!

How’s this for nerve? The leader of a country that consumes more than 20 million barrels of oil a day is warning the leader of a country that consumes some 6.5 million barrels not to try to lock up world oil resources.

April 20, 2006

The Peak Oil Crisis: New Years 2006

It’s a good time to review — looking backwards at what we learned in 2005 and forward at what might be in store for 2006.

January 11, 2006

Society

Kuwait’s biggest field starts to run out of oil

It was an incredible revelation last week that the second largest oil field in the world is exhausted and past its peak output. Yet that is what the Kuwait Oil Company revealed about its Burgan field.

November 13, 2005

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