Russia: Indigenous peoples protest against Sakhalin oil, gas projects
Representatives of indigenous peoples blocked more than 100 pieces of heavy machinery in Sakhalin on Friday to protest against local oil and gas projects.
The Case for Decentralized Generation of Energy
Highly centralized generation of electrical power is a paradigm that has outlived its usefulness. Decentralized generation could save $5 trillion in capital investment, reduce power costs by 40 percent, reduce vulnerabilities, and cut greenhouse gas emissions in half.
Feeding the World under Climate Change
The debate over sustainable agriculture has gone beyond the health and environmental benefits that it could bring in place of conventional industrial agriculture. For one thing, conventional industrial agriculture is heavily dependent on oil, which is running out. [Considers both climate change and Peak Oil]
Yukos Defaults on Long-Term Contracts to Supply Oil
OAO Yukos Oil Co., Russia’s biggest oil exporter last year, defaulted on long-term contracts to supply refiners after the government sold its biggest oil-producing unit to collect more than $20 billion in back taxes.
Will Washington tolerate a Chinese-Venezuelan Petro Pact?
President Chavez’s goal of reducing his country’s almost total dependence on the U.S. oil market may precipitate a global shift in which China will benefit by helping to meet its exponentially growing energy demands with Latin American oil.
Islanders look to coconuts as oil prices rise
Struggling with rising oil prices, Pacific island nations are increasingly looking to coconut oil, long a basic foodstuff and massage lubricant, as an economically and ecologically sound petroleum alternative.
U.S. Companies Eye Trans-Afghan Pipeline
American companies might join a long-delayed trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline project expected to be launched in 2006, the U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan said Tuesday.
A Permanent Presence
With up to 14 “enduring bases” being built in Iraq it seems the US’s fabled “exit strategy” may be not to exit at all.
IEA warns of likely renewed oil demand boom in 2005
The International Energy Agency (IEA) Tuesday warned of a possible renewed oil demand boom in 2005 and is telling oil producers to be on their guard against unexpected events.
Western Mining Corp: shortage of uranium adds value
Andrew Michelmore, the chief executive of the Australian mining group WMC Resources, will tell investors in London this week that the world faces a shortage of uranium and that his company has the world’s biggest deposit of the metal.
Oil Running Out
Industrialised countries are heavily dependent on fossil fuels, especially oil and gas. Gas and oil together provide 70% of the energy used in both the US and UK. But the world’s reserves are rapidly diminishing, and they don’t have to actually run out before precipitating a crisis. (An introductory article to Peak Oil)
The Food Bubble Economy
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reviews Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, by Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute.
