Simmons: The Implications of Saudi Arabian Oil Declining (transcript – part 2)
Energy demand has become a runaway train. There’s no way we can stop that train until we hit a brick wall.
Is Saudi Arabia Running Out of Oil?
When oil prices have doubled to $80 and a second Great Depression threatens global political stability, our president will assemble a 9/11-style commission to explain the intelligence and policy failures that led to the crisis. The verdict will be familiar: The stunning blow to the world economy brought about by the sudden, unexpected depletion of fossil fuel should have been anticipated and prevented.
China’s dependence on coal for energy causing pollution at home and abroad
China is relying on coal-fired power plants to meet severe electricity shortages, but such heavy polluters are damaging the environment and harming its people and its neighbours.
Nigeria’s oil crisis
Nigeria’s oil industry – Africa’s largest and the fifth-biggest source of US oil imports – is concerned for its future after a yearlong spree of bloodletting that has killed more than 1 000 people in the Niger Delta.
Fears ease as Yukos keeps pumping
Beleaguered Russian giant Yukos can continue to produce and sell oil despite an earlier demand to stop output, according to Russian officials.
UK Joins Methane to Markets Partnership
The UK today joined a US-led partnership that seeks to cut global methane gas emissions and to promote methane recovery and use as a clean energy source.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
In a fascinating new documentary, The End of Suburbia – Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, the central question is this: Does the suburban way of life have a future? The answer is a resounding no.
U.S. to Aid Nations in Methane Conversion
U.S. Will Help Poorer Nations Harvest Methane Emissions and Turn Them Into Clean-Burning Fuel.
OIL: The World Over A Barrel
A three part Canadian documentary series deals in part with the oil peak. “Soon enough, the era of cheap oil will be over. If prices rise too steeply there could be a devastating effect on the world’s economy.”
US nuclear: Hanford water cleanup not working, report says
A multimillion-dollar effort to clean polluted water flowing underground from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to the Columbia River is largely ineffective, concludes a federal report released yesterday.
Oil prices surge on fears of supply shortfall
Possible shutdown of Russian oil giant Yukos sparks rally.
The real reasons Bush went to war
WMD was the rationale for invading Iraq. But what was really driving the US were fears over oil and the future of the dollar
