Preparing for the End of Oil?
Hopedance magazine devotes its Jan/Feb issue to “Transitioning from Cheap Oil to a Post-Carbon World.”
“Stranded” Natural Gas to Liquid Fuel, is it time?
Every day natural gas flares around the world burn off 10 billion cubic feet of energy–the equivalent of 1.7 million barrels of oil. A tiny R&D company in Tulsa, Oklahoma called Syntroleum Corp. claims it has refined a gas-to-liquids process to the point that it’s now cheap and safe, and can be used in the field to produce more easily transported fuels.
New Zealand Greens predict oil crisis in 10 years
An oil-free New Zealand is on the Green Party’s agenda. … co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons warned of an oil crisis within 10 years. “The end of cheap oil is coming towards us with the force of a tsunami and New Zealand is not ready,” she said.
Energy tsunami unleashed
An energy tsunami formed due to a number of multi-billion dollar energy deals in oil and gas involving Iran, India, Russia and China has been unleashed in Asia, with great economic and political implications for the United States in particular and our global society in general.
NZ: Choice of LNG site ‘months away’
New Zealand electricity companies begin planning for the construction of an LNG refinery.
NZ Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons Full Speech: “Picnic for the Planet 2005”
Our civilization “is the first to develop a level of personal comfort that creates the illusion and the expectation that, thanks to our civilisation and our technology, we can forever conquer cold, hunger, pain, illness and eventually death itself. We have done this thanks to the use of one substance: oil.”
Australia: Continent at risk of a dry tsunami
Ours may be remembered as the generation that allowed Australia to die, writes Paul Sheehan.
Estonia: Wind farm takes off at former nuke base
On the site where border guards used to keep watch on the western outpost of the Soviet Union, Baltic European Union newcomer Estonia is erecting a wind farm to generate clean electricity.
Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran
The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday.
Stuck In Reverse: Why can’t Detroit mend its gas-guzzling ways?
[Retooling Detroit for fuel-efficient vehicles] would be a good thing, since time is running out — whether it’s measured in terms of climate change, our dependence on foreign oil, or the national security risks inherent in that dependence. Meanwhile, the benefits of such a solution — cleaner air, lower fuel prices, energy independence — are immeasurable.
Pakistan shuts largest gas field after gunbattle
Pakistani authorities suspended gas supplies from the country’s largest gas field after clashes between tribal militants and security forces killed four people, officials said.
Dollar on an oily slope
The unabated rise of international oil prices and depreciation of the dollar will push economic growth in the US down to about 2.5% in 2005, but will have little impact on economic growth in the European Union, where growth is expected to accelerate modestly.
