Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 14 August, 2005

Germany says auf Wiedersehen to nuclear power, guten Tag to renewables / What We Don’t Eat: Revolting waste / Nigers’ crisis not simply due to swarming insects and drought / Errors found in analysis of data used to discount global warming / The Right to be Cold / Ice is not all that’s going to disappear as the climate warms / Toxic 100 Index lists top corporate air polluters / West Nile disease toll on birds soaring

Politics and Economics Headlines – 14 August, 2005

Truckers stop work over fuel prices / Iran: Oil embargo best response to nuclear boycott / Dangerous curves on Turkey’s energy policy / Venezuela tax agency closes Shell office / Better Ask Santa For Gasoline / China grapples with high oil prices / Oil price rise puts squeeze on UK industry / How expensive oil hurts consumers / Oil Prices, Amid Global Concerns, Surge to a Record / Euro rivals cut off UK gas pipeline / Has India sacrificed at Washington’s altar? / A Superfluous Petroleum Reserve? / June Trade Deficit Surged as Oil Price Resumed Climb / U.S. trade deficit widens on flood of Chinese textiles, oil imports

Peak Oil — Beyond Fear

Upon first hearing about Peak Oil, a few years ago, I doubted it. “Just Big Oil propaganda to raise gas prices,” I initially thought. But the more I read about how our natural petroleum supply will reach its mid-point and then dwindle, the more convinced I became. So I got angry — at Big Oil for not informing us and at Americans for over-consuming a limited, non-renewable resource.

Politics and Economics Headlines – 12 August, 2005

Mauritania: An All Too Familiar Story / Venezuela to Buy Two Tankers, Send Fuel to Argentina / Philipines: Oil prices next Arroyo crisis / US contingency plan for a Venezuela oil cut off / Is Iraq war fueling the GCC’s economic boom? / Foiled Bid Stirs Worry for U.S. Oil / Reserve Judgment In Deal for Unocal, Chevron Gambles On High Oil Prices / I don’t drive; why should I care about oil prices? / China Energy Watch: Foreign Upstream Investors Wanted

Sustainability Headlines – 12 August, 2005

Past the Peak – How the small town of Willits plans to beat the coming energy crisis / The Peak-Oil Crisis: A Role for the Post Office / What ‘Green’ Means / Beyond an Encyclopedia: What’s Next for Wikimania? / A Roof Garden? It’s Much More Than That / In the Cards – Brits consider radical plan to measure personal emissions / Ask Umbra: Greasing their alms, On subsidies for big oil / New Urbanism: an Online NewsHour Special Report

Peak Oil Headlines – 12 August, 2005

Kunstler – No Discipline / Introducing ASPO-USA (AUDIO) / Heinberg – Threats of Peak Oil to the Global Food Supply”- (AUDIO) / Open Letter to Senator Schumer / Review of The Long Emergency in American Scientist / The Oil Drum on numeracy / James Hamilton – Limitations of the Hirsch report on peak oil / Rate hike fears as oil prices hit new high

Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 11 August, 2005

Voters prefer wind farms to new nuclear reactors / Solar Power is Hot — Too Hot /
Canadian municipalities have path to de-centralize services / If ENN Readers Could Have Written the Energy Bill… / Brasil launches new bio-energy program / Sugar on uncharted course, link to funds, energy / The Spud of Life / Malaysia Bans Open Burning around Kuala Lumpur and Central Selangor State as Haze Worsens / A ‘Gulley of Death’ That Gobbles Up All On Its Way / Roundup Is Killing Off Amphibians, Ecologist Says

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 10 August, 2005

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Real Energy Bill / Transcript of Matthew Simmons Interview on Financial Sense Newshour / Terror fears push oil prices to 22-year high / ell Canada Oil-Sands Cost Target Jumps to C$7.3 Bln / What’s happened to British Nuclear Fuels Ltd? / Rate hike fears as oil prices hit new high / Why commodities should concern everyone / India not influenced by U.S. pressures over gas pipeline / Energy investments lure hordes of newcomers / Coup precedes oil exploration / U.S. strategic interests rise in West Africa’s oil-rich Gulf of Guinea / What’s next for Saudia Arabia / Belgium: Record oil prices send gas, electricity bills soaring

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 5 August, 2005

Y2K versus Peak Oil / Peak Oil Jobs No.3 The eBay Seller / US Govt Sponsored Peak Oil (Hirsch) Report Draws Disturbing Conclusions / Uncle Sam’s asleep at the wheel / Nicaragua Trapped in Energy Crisis / In land of bicycle, car boom brings freedom of open road / Energy Bill makes bad energy outlook worse: Cleanpeace.org / China sees 2005 crude oil demand up 6pct / ‘Iran needs foreign firms to stop oil depletion’ / Chap.11 likely for Northwest, Delta airlines

Sustainability and Environment Headlines – 4 August, 2005

The Next Petroleum / Food – Origin unknown / Organic farms ‘best for wildlife’ / The Trouble with Organics / Editorial: Hybrid hypocrisy / Garbageland – Elizabeth Royte / Greening the National Map / Petrol price hike fuels small car sales / Climate change draws senators north to Alaska / ‘Strange things’ along Pacific Coast waters / In San Joaquin Valley, Cows Pass Cars as Polluters / Rolling back Iceland’s big desert

Fossil Fuel Headlines – 4 August, 2005

National Oil Firms Take Bigger Role / Drilling for Broke? Experts Debate ‘Peak Oil’ / Oil depletions are not created equal / The Four Great Challenges / Leadership, Activism, Mancur Olson, Groups, Localism, and Conferences / Public Peak Oil debate in Canberra / Delighting in Energy Poverty / Chinese ministry estimates crude import needs at 130 million tonnes / Oil at heart of renewed UAE-Saudi border dispute / Washington opposition forces Chinese to withdraw oil offer / CNOOC Withdraws $18.5-Billion Bid for Unocal / Oil politics may not dissipate: China-U.S. relations further strained / Don’t rock the boat with fuel rise, plea