Oil prices prompt another look at shale
The U.S. government said Tuesday it was ready to resurrect oil shale drilling in the Rocky Mountains, a technology heralded 30 years ago to boost America’s energy output until it failed financially.
Professor Goodstein discusses lowering oil reserves
Lateline interview with David Goodstein, professor of physics and author of Out of Gas – the End of the Age of Oil.
Attempts to offset oil depletion in Venezuala through heavy oil processing
It is no secret that Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is having trouble maintaining production capacity. With a natural production decline of around 25% a year, it is necessary to develop that magnitude of additional oil for the production level to remain where it was.
Oil Touches $50 a Barrel as Cold Outlook Boosts Supply Concern
New York crude oil touched $50 a barrel for the first time in almost three weeks amid concern that refiners have failed to build adequate heating-oil supplies in time for the U.S. winter.
Audio: Beyond Resource Wars: Peak Oil and Community Solutions (Part 1)
Audio recordings from the First US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions featuring Pat Murphy and Richard Heinberg.
Economic `Armageddon’ predicted
Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he’s saying in private. Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic “armageddon.”
An energy college in Memphis? Private group sees 8,000 students
A secretive group in Middle Tennessee wants to build from scratch one of the biggest colleges in the Southeast, and the only college in the nation to be completely dedicated to energy.
Energy: A Global Overview
A new presentation by Matthew Simmons, “Energy: A Global Overview” given at the Deloitte & Touche’s 2004 Oil & Gas Conference in Houston, Texas.
Pentagon turns heat up on Iran
Washington and European Union on collision course over how to neutralise Tehran’s nuclear capabilities
UK: Record year for wind power firms
It has been a record year of investment in the UK wind power industry, with new farms created up three-fold on 2003.
Interviews about Peak Oil and Solutions
Interviews with Richard Heinberg (The Party’s Over), Jan Lundberg (CultureChange) and William L. Seavey (Power Your Car WITHOUT Gasoline!!) and activist Sandi Brockway.
US companies rediscover coal-fired power plants
Sure, coal sounds dirty and dated, the kind of energy source that went out of fashion with big Buicks and bell-bottom jeans. But a coal project here in northern Nevada is one of more than 100 coal-fueled plants that are vying for approval around the country, the largest increase in such projects since the 1970s.
