Energy shortage hits Chinese firms
“There are now restrictions forced on us. For two days a week we are not allowed to use any electricity and that means I have to send my workers home,” says Ms Dai.
Bush’s ruinous economic plans
There’s a growing consensus among experts that the most recent wave of oil price hikes is not mainly the result of market manipulation, refining bottlenecks, or the Iraq occupation but the harbinger of the long-predicted depletion of the world’s extractable oil reserves.
Options exhausted, oil firms turn to tar
North America’s crude oil resources have been so thoroughly explored and developed that experts believe that there is hardly any left to find, except perhaps in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The More We Grow, The Less Able We Are to Feed Ourselves
The world is consistently failing to grow enough crops to feed itself, alarming official statistics show. Humanity has squeaked through so far by eating its way into stockpiles built up in better times.
Putin And The Geopolitics Of Oil
The geopolitics of oil today suggest a backdrop looking less like a benign, happily globalised “one world economy” dominated by America Inc and its assorted “branch plants”, and more a massive, overextended military power fighting a dangerous, and ultimately losing, battle against an angry, resistant globe, of which Russia is but one more growing manifestation.
Truth and Lies about 9/11
Michael Ruppert, publisher of From The Wilderness addressed the prestigious Commonwealth Club of California about peak oil and it’s relationship to the events of 9/11.
Simon Upton forecasts end of industrial era.
The former New Zealand minister for the environment and now chairman of the OECD roundtable for sustainable development wrote in 1997 of his knowledge of the impending global oil peak, but did he really understand the implications of what he was saying?
FuelCell’s Burning Cash
Despite a history that proves fuel cell companies burn a lot of cash but produce precious little energy in doing so, optimistic investors continue to shovel more and more cash into the fire.
Mexican Oil Claims Doubted
Officials at Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly said Monday that the company has detected massive new oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that could potentially double the country’s reserves, but industry analysts cautioned that the company’s findings are still unproven.
IFP develops three oil price scenarios for 2004-05
aced with lofty world crude oil prices, reflecting a perception of tight fundamentals and threats to supplies, Paris-based Institut Français du Pétrole recently examined how the situation might evolve over the next 18 months.
NZ relies on flawed global oil production data
The New Zealand government depends on the IEA’s oil production projections. As concerns about global Peak Oil began surfacing in the mid to late 90’s the IEA has succeeded only in delivering a “business as usual” message but with seriously flawed “hidden variables”.
Get Ready for the Peak Experience
Thanks to the collusion of industry, financial and government interests, the coming decline in oil production is portrayed as so impossibly far off in the future that there is no sense talking about it – but talk we must.
