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

Oil: Caveat empty

Without any press conferences, grand announcements, or hyperbolic advertising campaigns, the Exxon Mobil Corporation, one of the world’s largest publicly owned petroleum companies, has quietly joined the ranks of those who are predicting an impending plateau in non-OPEC oil production. Their report, The Outlook for Energy: A 2030 View, forecasts a peak in just five years.

Energy Headlines – May 24, 2005

AP discovers Peak Oil / More oil stories from Globe and Mail / Good news: injecting C02 into oil deposits / Deffeyes on TV / Ruppert to talk in S. Oregon / SA oil minister: we’ll pump more / Mixing left and right equals geo-green/ Environmental neo-con job? / Apocalypse arriving on a tight schedule / China’s coal riches could ease oil insecurity / Coal shortage in China to hit 330M tons by 2010 / Bolivian capital isolated by protests demanding oil nationalization / Latin oil romance / European economic sanctions against Iran could send oil prices higher / Transcript of Alan Greenspan’s May 20 speech / Oil to fuel U.S. job boom

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.

Time is ripe for urban agriculture

… Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., … argues that with half of federal farm subsidies currently “flowing to six states to produce 13 commodities that in the main we don’t need, like corn, wheat, cotton, and rice,” there’s a dramatically superior alternative.
We should, says Blumenauer, “use that money to build sustainable agriculture, create a farmer’s market in every community, help farmers protect our land and water, preserve our viewsheds, foster land banks and control erosion.” …