Employers should help with petrol price hikes: union
A major union is pushing for new travel allowances to cushion the impact of rising petrol prices on its members.
Solutions and Sustainability Headlines – 15 September 2005
How Big Should A Small Farm Be? / New religion required / Building green always made sense — now it’s beginning to pay off / reenhouse emissions reduced by biodiesel / Suddenly, Those Solar Panels Don’t Look So 1970’s
Peak Oil Headines – 13 September, 2005
Market analysts testimony to US Senate ENR committee / A Prudent Bear meets Pimental / Another Way of Looking at CERA / Simmons interviewed in Foriegn Policy magazine / An Interview with Michael Ruppert / Peak Oil in Guatemala and the U.S.: Energy Crises at Both Ends of the Development Spectrum / Policies for Sustainable Food Systems, National and Global
Politics and Economics Headlines – 15 September, 2005
Worries over winter natural gas supplies for US Gulf of Mexico area / Panic buying begins as motorists fear petrol blockades / Car industry woes / Brown calls for oil market change / Toyota Says It May Put Gas-Electric Engines in All Its Vehicles / British Energy extends Dungeness B nuke station to 2018 / EnCana selling Ecuador oil assets to Chinese group / Branson talks of oil refinery
Solar can’t do it all: Conservation needed to localize energy sources
A study for the city of Willits (California) reports that locally-based sustainable energy could replace their oil-based imports, but only if conservation cut area energy use by more than half.
Politics and Economics Headlines – 13 September, 2005
Heavy fuel sales ahead of UK tax protest / US Congress revisits fuel-economy regulation / Storm Stretches Refiners Past a Perilous Point / NYTimes editorial on rationing, infrastructure / High Diesel Prices Yield Bumper Crop of Thieves / Canadian Imperial Bank: Oil May Average $93 in 2007 / UK: ‘Face down the protests’ / Ageing North Sea not helped enough by $60 oil
Environment Headlines – 13 September, 2005
UK Deputy PM links global warming to Katrina / The Storm Next Time / Can’t blame global warming, at least not this time / Al Gore on Katrina, Global Warming / Burning Atlanta / Time to head for the hills? / Storm Warnings / Unofficial reading of the signs smeared
Peak Oil Headines – 13 September, 2005
Oil Drum on Physics of Physical work / Kunstler on Rocks in our Heads / US Rep. Bartlett interview / Peak Oil and Britain / 2007: Solving Peak Oil [press rel.] / Agenda of New York Petrocollapse conference / NZ Labor Energy Policy admits early peak possible / Oil, the times, and Pascal’s wager / End of oil era in sight, Rifkin warns / Simmons, Kunstler book reviews / “Katrina’s aftermath is glimpse of world’s energy future” / Our float down the River de Nial
Politics and Economics Headlines – 12 September, 2005
China deploys warships to East China Sea gas field / Global trade vulnerable to high oil / Big Gav’s weekend roundup of energy news / Politicians Let Big Oil Pillage Public / Heating oil prices could become ‘life or death’ this winter / UK: Brown blames OPEC for fuel price rises / Canada: Home-heating relief weighed to help needy / Inflated natural gas prices poised to burn school budgets
Other Energy Headlines – 12 September, 2005
White House asks oil companies to postpone refinery maintenance / Canada may defer refinery maintenance to help U.S / BP kept unit running despite memo on eroded pipes / TOD – Oil drilling 101: sharing the wealth / New England stove wood prices spiking / Magnetic energy? Perhaps
On Why High IQ Fails Us, The Freakonomics of Peak Oil, and Horse Breeding, Manhattan Style.
A worthy reply to the Freakonomics criticisms of peak oil.
French threats bend BP & Total on oil price
Oil giants Total and BP bowed to intense political pressure on Friday and cut petrol prices at the pump in France immediately to help ease the pain of surging fuel and energy bills for households and businesses.
