Australia – Apr 12
Peak coal in Australia?
Climate change report worries industries
Australian media pick up on energy and warming – can bloggers retire now?
Oil-producing countries – Apr 12
Doha: talking about an OPEC for gas
Russia’s oil and gas reserves shrinking
Chavez guarantees Latin American energy supply for 100 years
Chávez plays the oil card
Getting the word out – Apr 12
1,000+ climate rallies planned this weekend
This April … Red + Blue go green
WorldChanging interviews McKibben
What’s so funny? (profile of Grist)
Cllimate policy – Apr 12
Climate censorship- the deniers dish it out
A tale of three interviews
Labor confronts global warming
Diesel’s adverts call for a boycott
ConocoPhillips, the anti-Exxon, supports regulation of GHG emissions
Geo-politics – Apr 12
The Saudi paradox
Russian trans-Balkan pipeline to skirt Turkey
Russian general says U.S. continues preparations for military action against Iran
Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
American writer and humorist Kurt Vonnegut has died at age 84. About energy he wrote, “We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.”
Renewables – Apr 12
Thermal depolymerization: the next big thing
US releases National Renewable Fuel Standard
Sustainable energy has powerful future
Tom Whipple: Decentralized Power
Geodynamics says it has ‘hottest rocks on earth’
Transport – Apr 12
Schwarzenegger to Michigan: Get off your butt
Cautious approval for plan to end private ownership of rail in Scotland
Air travel poses major threat to biodiversity, say scientists
NY Auto Show – ‘Green Cars’
Passenger trains returning to S. Montana?
Transport surging, damaging climate
U.S. energy policy – Apr 12
Rep. Jay Inslee, clean-energy champion
Gingrich goes green in Kerry climate debate
EPA: full speed ahead with ethanol
Calif governor likes LNG despite panel vote
Schwarzenegger exports his brand of ‘green’
George Monbiot on Peak Oil and Transition Towns
“Over the past two or three years or so, I’ve become pretty sure that peak oil isn’t as imminent as I first thought. There are a couple of reasons for this.”
Oil Industry – Apr 11
What Iraq’s new oil law says about the invasion?
Getting tough with the petro-elites
Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields
Canada’s oil services struggle
Cycles of sustainability
Conventional wisdom in the peak oil community holds that the arrival of the worldwide production peak will be followed by soaring prices into the indefinite future. Recent history argues this may not be true — and if it isn’t, the challenge to any constructive response to peak oil may be even worse than it already is.
