Oil Industry – Sept 15
Secret to cheap petrol is coal
BP was warned over North Slope intimidation
Oil supplies ‘could last 140 years’
Canadian crude oil production drops
US DOE trumpets CO2 injection
Politics and Economics – Sept 15
IMF: risk of global crash is increasing
Java-Bali electricity supply reduced
America’s unreal estate problem
Ford offers early retirement to US workforce
Gulf oil find won’t alter prices now
The peak oil crisis:
Hyping Jack No. 2
What seems to be turning up in the deeper waters of the Gulf are a series of smaller oil fields — some of which may someday be profitable to produce and some of which probably won’t. Extrapolating this situation to a major new discovery that will delay the onset of peak oil is clearly a reach.
Peak Oil – Sep 14
Financial columnist Scott Burns on peak oil
Geophysicist Klaus Lackner on Fueling the Future
Roscoe Bartlett interview
A simpler way to calculate global oil reserves?
Some insiders reject ‘peak-oil theory’
Oil supply conjecture grips industry
Climate – Sept 13
NYT conversation with Lovelock
Economist says time to act on climate change
Report links global warming, storms
Global warming film unites preachers and politics
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
Chevron’s effort in the Gulf is worth dissecting because it is illustrative of the future of the petroleum industry over the next decades. This article discusses geology.
Energy predicaments and prospects
As fossil fuel depletion brings the industrial age to an end, the shift to a much lower level of energy use per capita will bring sweeping changes to every aspect of life. This essay, the first of a series, outlines what a low-energy future would mean for America and its people.
The good news is local (interview)
Jason Bradford is a PhD evolutionary biologist who studied the effects of climate change on cloud forests in the Andes under the auspices of the Missouri Botanical Garden and other institutions. But in 2004 he switched his focus from study to action by initiating a remarkable community organizing effort in his new home town of Willits, California, called Willits Economic LocaLization (WELL).
Energy policy – Sept 13
EU: energy investments ‘urgently needed’
Producers: aid must continue for biomass-coal power
Japan’s energy drive – a white elephant?
Fuel for London, a clean-up for Caracas
Fun with emergency preparedness
My emergency planning strategies starts a journey that ends in the garden.
Prominent CERA official – “Peak Oil theory is garbage”
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) completely discounts the considered opinions of dozens of sober individuals and firms looking into the peak oil issue. Who are these concerned individuals and firms? Steve Andrews lists many of the most prominent.
Chevron conquers the rock
Jack #2 demonstrates a key element of the Peak Oil thesis. That is, that the “easy” oil is gone… The oil that mankind will lift from the earth in the future, on the far side of Peak Oil, will be in faraway places, in harsh climates, under excruciatingly difficult conditions, deep down, heavy, sour, and overall expensive.
