The Axis of Oil
China and India are locked in an increasingly aggressive wrangle with the United States over the world’s most critical economic commodity: oil.
NZ: Mangatoa could bring in billions
Explorer New Zealand Oil and Gas and Origin Energy, Contact Energy’s parent, may be sitting on a gas prospect three-quarters the size of Maui, potentially worth billions of dollars.
The Future of Money
Any currency that can maintain its value among its users can function. Historically, many alternative, or local, currencies have worked and many still do.
Meditations on Collapse (a review of Jared Diamond’s book)
Heinberg makes a number of significant criticisms of Diamonds latest, not least being loose theoretical coherence and pulling his punches; a quote: “The question is no longer that of avoiding collapse, but rather of making the best of it.”
Bush, Iraq and the hydrogen economy
The hydrogen economy is really a nuclear economy. Investors and the rest of corporate America may not realise how close the country is to making a gigantic bet on a nuclear future.
McNeill Interview with Noam Chomsky
Chomsky discusses Iraq, parallels/differences with Vietnam and 9-11.
Seeking Iraq’s oil prize
The Iraqi government that emerges from Sunday’s election may open its oil business to foreign investment, and international petroleum companies are jockeying to curry favor with the war-torn country.
Shell oil chief defects to the green lobby
The outgoing chairman of Shell has announced he wants to take up a post with a climate-change charity when he quits the oil giant later this year, writes Jonathan Leake.
It’s Not All Blue Skies for Drilling Project
Expansion of gas wells in Rocky Mountain states will degrade the air at several national parks.
Energy-hungry nation looks to LNG
…as growing demand for natural gas outstrips North America’s conventional supplies, many experts view imports of LNG as the only way to head off decades of soaring prices for businesses and the tens of millions of households that rely on the fuel for heat and electricity.
Deepwater exploration binge off South Africa
Includes report of planned & recent deepwater oil exploration off the coast of South Africa, and some pleasantly frank comments from the head of the SA Petroleum Agency.
Transatlantic alliance to secure fuel supplies
Oil consumers on both sides of the Atlantic on Thursday outlined plans to secure energy supplies and reduce consumption amid growing concern over rising oil prices, potential terrorist threats and surging demand from avoracious China.
