Oil – Nov 5
Big oil’s expensive black gold quest /
Estimated U.S. drilling hits 21-year high /
Canada: Forecast predicts energy exploration will decline in 2007
Latin America energy policy – Nov 5
Chavez threatens to halt oil to U.S. /
Foreign investors bow to Morales in Bolivia /
As wells dry up, Mexico could be forced to privatize oil
N. America energy policy – Nov 5
Clinton stumps for Calif. prop. 87 /
American car buyers get a case of amnesia /
Canadian clips on global warming and energy
Are You Voting for the Terminator’s Terminals?
If you are a California voter, you might have heard about the big celebrity protests in Malibu a few weeks ago. Led by actor Pierce Brosnan,
everyone from Barbra Striesand to Sting showed up to protest a planned LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminal that BHP Billiton wants to build 14 miles
off the coast at Oxnard.
Draining Canada first
Sating America’s prodigious energy appetite depends on the continued availability of Canadian energy sources. How long can Canada go on behaving like America’s most compliant energy colony?
Report on a talk at the ASPO-USA conference in Boston.
Peak oil – Nov 2
Tom Whipple: Virginia writes a plan /
Oil films reviewed by 4th Intl site/
New book “Energy War” by Stan Goff
Biofuels – Nov 2
The real scoop on biofuels /
As investors covet ethanol, farmers resist /
McCain’s farm flip
Renewables – Nov 2
Dawn of the “solar salon” in US living rooms /
GE Energy Korea: ‘Switch to renewable power before you’re forced to’ /
False dawn of solar power /
China: massive capital for renewable power
Food & agriculture – Nov 2
What if the Midwest stopped trying to feed the world and started focusing on itself?
Forecast for Australian grain production cut again /
‘Virtually no progress’ in alleviating world hunger: FAO
Climate policy – Nov 2
US Inspector Generals probe allegations that global warming findings were suppressed /
MIT survey: climate tops Americans’ environmental concerns /
UK Stern Report sells climate short /
You can’t do it all with mirrors /
Why we must ration the future /
2050 too late for climate change action: former U.S. adviser
The Oil Crisis Started 30 Years Ago
It is customary to look for the critical year of oil production in absolute terms, but in the year 1970 or thereabouts there was another important “conjunction,” to use an astrological metaphor.
Dollar hegemony – Nov 2
The Dollar’s Full-System Meltdown /
Syria switches to the Euro due to US sanctions /
Gulf oil states ‘keep faith in dollar assets’
