When PR goes nuclear
Thorough examination of how the nuclear industry in the UK has used climate fears to resurrected itself – with lots of help from PR agencies, ex-ministers and other highly paid pillars of the establishment.
Our Petroleum Predicament
This article about M. King Hubbert reprinted from a 1970s fishing magazine (of all places) reminds us that after Hubbert there were many forecasts that greatly overestimated the US total recoverable oil resources, including the major institutions making similar global preditions today.
Struggling to keep a lid on oil crisis
Kick-off article for the Plain Dealer’s coming series on “the end of cheap oil, the search for new energy sources and the implications of both.”
Revealed: The real cost of air travel
It might be cheap, but it’s going to cost the earth. The cut-price airline ticket is fuelling a boom that will make countering global warming impossible.
Energy Headlines – May 28, 2005
Kunstler vs Lovins / Globe and Mail slideshow on energy crunch / Saudi geologists’ papers spell lower output (Simmons) / Price dollars in oil, not oil in dollars / US told to face up to climate change / Leaked G8 draft on climate change angers green groups – “A mush of warm words” / Zimbabwe suffers from fuel crisis / Why Europe will run the 21st century
Energy Headlines – May 29, 2005
Cleveland paper starts series on oil crisis /
San Diego discovers Peak Oil /
Report from ASPO conference in Portugal /
Leaving the Stone Age/
Still more oil stories from Globe and Mail /
Saudis look to change of direction from King Fahd’s successor /
Saudi’s crude calculations don’t add up /
Exxon CEO won’t use spending spree to boost production /
Nuclear not a solution to reducing CO2 /
UK gas-guzzlers to be hit by 5-fold tax increase /
UK Greenpeace in rift with US branch over air flights /
Ex-oilman: Putting the wind in our sales /
The mad genius from the bottom of the sea /
Man of the Trees, Richard St. Barbe Baker
Experts: Petroleum May Be Nearing a Peak
About 200 news sites published this summary of Peak Oil this weekend. The list includes Forbes, Newsday (NY), NY Times, SF Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, LA Times, ABC News, CBS News — all the biggies. This is a major development in getting the Peak Oil story out.
Saudi King Fahd admitted to hospital
Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz has been admitted to hospital for medical examinations, the royal palace said in a statement carried by the official news agency SPA.
Washington Monthly discovers Peak Oil
…the idea of a world production peak is no longer the province of a small band of “peak oil” cranks. It’s gone mainstream.
Energy Headlines – May 27, 2005
Michael Ruppert interview / UK activists discover PO / City planners do NOT discover PO / The real problems with $50 oil / Amy Goodman on the new pipeline / Tear gas in the Andes / Industry chiefs’ environment plea / Undercutting the [carbon trading] deal / Energy package clears Senate committee / With one lone dissenter / Bill gives Feds authority over LNG sites / Will California have the energy it needs? / Nuclear energy / Why Americans are on the road again / Toxin in plastics harming unborn boys / What’s the big deal about biodiversity? / A revival of hitchhiking would increase respect, cut global warming and improve educational standards
Energy Headlines – May 25, 2005
California Aggies discover PO / Heinberg interview / Watch the master investor: Buffet is buying energy / Nuclear is the politics of despair / TOD: Cleaning up after elephants / BP demands editorial control / Nationalization! The first two days of Bolivia’s second gas war / U.S. senators mount assault on wind power / Pipeline politics give Turkey an edge / China builds giant malls / Moscow paralyzed by power cut / Navajos debate power plants / Long Beach delays LNG vote / Species extinctions hard on humans / Biogas in Cambodia / Car-free and silent for 17 years
When the wells run dry
We use more oil than we find, and if producers are fixing their figures the end could be closer than thought
