Earth Day reality check: Depaver Jan’s petroleum tour
We are all on this Petroleum Tour in most ways, every day of our lives. We are oblivious that our daily support system of petroleum props up our lifestyles and survival — or we pretend otherwise.
UK: Fuel protesters picket refinery
Fuel duty campaigners are demonstrating outside a Cheshire oil refinery in protest at high fuel costs.
The twilight zone
We’ve been warned about ‘peak oil’- the day that heralds the end of cheap energy. It’s the biggest threat to our lives and livelihoods, but no one is listening. Former industry insider Jeremy Leggett outlines the six reasons why we need to act now
UK: Radiating failure
Britain now has half-a-million cubic metres of highly radioactive waste – enough to fill five Albert Halls – in ponds and tanks at power plants and other sites around the country.
Pipedreams To Prosperity
The Iran-Pakistan-India oil pipeline and its proposed extension to southwestern China will radically transform the relationship between these countries.
Bush To Push Saudis On Oil Prices
The US president is welcoming Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah to his ranch in Texas on Monday. Bush says he’s looking for “a straight answer” to how close the Saudis are to reaching production capacity.
Nuclear power? Yes please, says Blair
Downing Street is drawing up secret plans to create a new generation of nuclear power stations as the centrepiece of the Government’s drive to combat climate change.
Survey of Energy Resources: Oil Shale
A background briefing on the vast scale of oil shale resources but the problems producing oil from them. Youngquist writes, ‘The term “oil shale” is a misnomer. It does not contain oil nor is it commonly shale.’
Energy Headlines – Apr 24, 2005
How a plant taxonomist discovered PO / How far we’ve come since the 1st Earthday (NOT!) / Indian business magazine on global energy / China says it’s turning to renewables / Brazil will clean up with ethanol / more
Nuclear power is the problem, not a solution
There is a huge propaganda push by the nuclear industry to justify nuclear power as a panacea for the reduction of global-warming gases.
Half-Life Is Beautiful? On nuclear energy
Nuclear waste is an unsolved problem, plant meltdowns are themselves environmentally disastrous, and nuclear material can be used to nefarious and horrifying ends. But if we see climate change as the No. 1 environmental emergency, nuclear energy must, at least, be given a fair hearing. Thus, despite the fact that contemplating it makes me feel like Dick Cheney, we will return to this fissile topic anon.
‘Peak oil’ a focus of 35th annual Earth Day
On this 35th anniversary of Earth Day, environmentalists gathered at the University of Alaska library to discuss the world’s energy future. Meanwhile pressure builds to drill oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
