Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Evidence is mounting that oil prices will soon climb to new, perhaps unaffordable for many, highs. Some think “soon” is three, four, or five years away. Others think “soon” may be as close as three, four, five, or six months. It is this latter scenario that we look at today.
A soon-to-be-released study by the Energy Watch Group in Germany on the future of global coal supplies has implications so surprising and far-reaching that energy policymakers may take years to digest it. The report’s central conclusion is that minable global coal reserves are much smaller than is commonly thought, and that a peak in world coal production is likely within only ten to fifteen years.
PetroChina Co posts record profit
BP says oil and gas recovery crucial
Safety chief ‘terrified’ by culture at BP plant
Gulf governments plan oil pipelines
Houston’s role in energy evolves
Angola, oil industry darling
£25 fridge gadget that could slash greenhouse emissions
Catalyst could help turn CO2 into fuel
Science turns sun, surf into green energy
Pollution, dams, climate change threatening world’s greatest rivers, WWF says
No-Holds-Barred Fight promised over Brazil River Project
Recycled water fight begins
Water prophecy may sink Baillieu
Invasive mussels in SoCal water supply
High Speed Passenger Rail Act, Draft
Highway speed limit plan irks Germans
Return of the Electric Car
Transport issues prompt voters rethink
A report on peak oil by the National Petroleum Council is due out in the next few months. Randy Udall wrote them: “The NPC has a wonderful opportunity to reframe the discussion around peak oil. After thoroughly studying the evidence, I hope that you conclude, as many of us have, that peak oil is
near.”
How reporters learned to stop worrying and love nuclear front groups
Russia to build 3 plants each year from 2016
Alarms rang ‘nonstop’ during 1999 nuclear accident
Thousands protest new nuclear reactors
Yucca Mountain cost: $26.9 billion
Attractive visual presentations that integrate peak oil and climate change into the planning frameworks used by municipal and regional decision makers.
Courting air travel is unsustainable
Chinese Premier hedges on climate response
Canada’s Tories eliminate climate policy group
180 New Hampshire towns put climate on agenda
Gore gets 300k signatures on call for action
British Columbia aligns with California to create a green bloc along Pacific
Global opinion warming
Federal judge introduces lawyers to Peak Oil
Matt Simmons discusses PO on CNBC
Turkish diesel is close to 300$ a barrel
Pemex CEO: Company is in critical condition
New website for “How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”
“Gas OPEC” to be created in Doha next month
Reckless actions have consequences…
Kuwait looking to natural gas, nuclear options
