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.

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

Peak Oil: The Movie!

FOX owned cable channel FX looks set to deal with the events of a sudden catastrophic loss of oil imports due to a shipping disaster.

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

Energy Headlines – May 26, 2005

Energy to drive NZ Greens’ election hopes /Seven more energy stories from Globe and Mail / Grist and MN interviews with Kunstler / Town hall meeting on PO a success / Pipelineistan’s biggest game begins / Krugman on the Chinese Connection / Analyst sees surge in offshore wind projects / BP reportedly wants say-so in news coverage / China coal paradox? / Concerns on Saudi oil production / Norway sees injecting CO2 into oil fields as too pricey / LNG terminal in Long Beach / the oil plateau does not mean peak food / Save money on gas, even without a hybrid / SUVs losing their luster

Communicating Peak Oil – The Cost of Energy

The Cost of Energy is a new grassroots energy education web site from American Lou Grinzo that is outlining the issues (and the jargon!) in an approachable question and answer format. We asked Lou to outline his starting assumptions and provide some background on the project and himself.