Other Energy Headlines – 25 October, 2005
Cows make fuel for biogas train / Tankard to gas tank / Ugandan charcoal consumption increasing desertification / Crude Oil vs. the State / Oil and Saudi Arabia – Part 1
Politics and Economics Headlines – 25 October, 2005
Indonesia – 70,000 textile workers laid off since fuel price hike / India to assist in Iran pipeline construction / Fuel crisis might shut UK industry, admits minister / Behind gold’s glitter / Coin laundry costs spike
Peak Oil Headlines – 24 October, 2005
It’s the end of oil .. Oil is here to stay / Vermonters move to secede from USA / Finding fuel for the burbs: A costly task / H.Kunstler debates M.Lynch on Public Radio / How to Kick the Oil Habit / Petroleum Review on Global Public Media
Other Energy Headlines – 24 October, 2005
Vegoil use as fuel squeezing out food uses / Stirling solar energy generators / Oil mallee tree may be fuel alternative / Iraq oil output hurt by high water / Oil shale: Another boom?
Reenergize America – a Democratic blueprint
A draft of “what we hope to transform into a bold, consistent, easy-to-understand Democratic energy agenda.” Much of it will appeal to anyone concerned about energy policy, Democrat or not.
Solutions and sustainability – Oct 23
Time for a Schumacher revival /
Peak oil and permaculture /
Hundreds of sustainability links /
How rural communities can grow again /
Japan’s sustainability down 19%
Peak oil headlines – Oct 23
Report on “End of Oil” conference in UK /
Peak oil and the North Atlantic oscillation /
IEA’s “Resources To Reserves” report – not to worry! /
Peak oil slideshow
Other energy headlines – Oct 22
Chief UK scientist backs nuclear power revival /
Feuding over the origins of fossil fuels /
Bio-fuel hopes for palm oil are overstated /
Outgoing German environment minister: consign atomic energy to the past /
Expert lambastes Canada’s massive oil sands play /
Hybrid grass may prove to be valuable fuel source /
Governor Schweitzer, I have a few questions for you about coal /
Why oil intensity changed in the US economy
Politics headlines – Oct 22
Sudan war ends, conflict over oil continues /
Iran ‘has proof’ of British role in bombings /
Reenergize America – a Democratic blueprint for energy /
Daily Kos a hotbed of peak-think /
Despite big profits, oil seeks special help /
Violence, politics muddy Iraq’s oil future /
Chavez and Chirac affirm ‘common vision’ /
Imperial candor on US and oilfields /
The new US ‘oil imperialism’ /
Arctic map vanishes, and oil area expands /
Oil-drilling blues for the coasts
Economics headlines – Oct 22
Arab Times: solution to high oil prices – cut taxes /
High fuel costs strain mass-transit systems /
Chavez helps Motley Fool pick oil stocks /
Threat to privatised £56bn UK nuclear clean-up /
Simmons says crude could hit $190 this winter /
France’s consumer spending fell on oil /
IEA to discuss possible further oil release /
Energy costs sting rural residents in Alaska /
Energy, trade and the demise of petrochemicals in Alberta /
Peak corn? As Wal-Mart shifts from petroleum to corn, farmers flee the crop /
Agriculture facing its own Katrina
Environment headlines – Oct 22
Blue Planet winners urge CO2-cutting efforts /
China emerges as main threat to Asian forests /
Satellite images reveal Amazon forest shrinking faster /
Global warming a major threat to Africa /
In Great Basin, scientists track global warming via pikas
Environment Headlines – 21 October, 2005
Amazon Indians protest oil contamination left by Texaco / Saving the planet by flicking a switch / Old ways of life are fading as Arctic thaws / S.Africa opposed to watered down Kyoto / Oil drills getting closer than ever to the Arctic Refuge (2)
