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California Aggies discover PO / Heinberg interview / Watch the master investor: Buffet is buying energy / Nuclear is the politics of despair / TOD: Cleaning up after elephants / BP demands editorial control / Nationalization! The first two days of Bolivia’s second gas war / U.S. senators mount assault on wind power / Pipeline politics give Turkey an edge / China builds giant malls / Moscow paralyzed by power cut / Navajos debate power plants / Long Beach delays LNG vote / Species extinctions hard on humans / Biogas in Cambodia / Car-free and silent for 17 years

Energy to drive NZ Greens’ election hopes /Seven more energy stories from Globe and Mail / Grist and MN interviews with Kunstler / Town hall meeting on PO a success / Pipelineistan’s biggest game begins / Krugman on the Chinese Connection / Analyst sees surge in offshore wind projects / BP reportedly wants say-so in news coverage / China coal paradox? / Concerns on Saudi oil production / Norway sees injecting CO2 into oil fields as too pricey / LNG terminal in Long Beach / the oil plateau does not mean peak food / Save money on gas, even without a hybrid / SUVs losing their luster

AP discovers Peak Oil / More oil stories from Globe and Mail / Good news: injecting C02 into oil deposits / Deffeyes on TV / Ruppert to talk in S. Oregon / SA oil minister: we’ll pump more / Mixing left and right equals geo-green/ Environmental neo-con job? / Apocalypse arriving on a tight schedule / China’s coal riches could ease oil insecurity / Coal shortage in China to hit 330M tons by 2010 / Bolivian capital isolated by protests demanding oil nationalization / Latin oil romance / European economic sanctions against Iran could send oil prices higher / Transcript of Alan Greenspan’s May 20 speech / Oil to fuel U.S. job boom

India: Peak Oil? Grow sugar cane / Australian Dep. PM fears for oil reserves / Possum News Network on PO / Detailed LNG analysis / British lawmaker: Iraq war was for oil / Mexico defends oil policy after U.S. comment / Canadian oil sands: vast but dirty / China moves fast to claim oil sands / Opec remarks may pump oil price / Oil prices to fall to $30-40 in 2006-07 – EBRD / Oil prices to top $60 by autumn, analysts warn / Oil hunt: India, China to join hands

Kenneth Deffeyes interviewed / Richard Heinberg interviewed / Kunstler feeling paranoid / Answering a Peak Oil skeptic / And so it begins … / OPEC pumping at full capacity / Oil industry looking at renewables / Bolivia epitomizes fight for natural resources / Dirty secret: coal plants could be much cleaner / Canadian oil showdown: tribes vs oil sands / GE CEO is onboard with clean energy / Time is ripe for urban agriculture / The Cascade Agenda: 100-year conservation plan covering 1.26 million acres around Seattle – largest vision in the US

Owner of oldest commercial oil field believes in Peak Oil / UK ‘Peak Oil’ website passes landmark / New Energy Currents – an overview / Global warming in the New Yorker, part 3 / The Lessons of Easter Island / History shows that true innovation has disappeared from our society / 2,000 more wind turbines in UK countryside / Tilting at windmills: nation split over energy eyesores

The 5 steps in the future energy system must include amplification / Congress touts ’green energy,’ but bill is black and blue / Greenspan: Oil supplies to grow / U.N. report says biodiversity on decline / ** Biofuels special ** / Like Easter Island, only with cars / The rape of the rainforest… and the man behind it / Brazil’s backing biodiesel / From rainforest to biodiesel / Alternative fuels – promises and perils / Wind farms ‘must take root in UK’ / Neva Goodwin, ecological economist, answers readers’ questions / A green(er) IT / Reader asks about connection between PO and biodiversity

On the road with Heinberg in South Africa / Apollo Energy Act contrasts sharply with “Jurassic” GOP energy bill / Bolivians reject gas laws / A Castro ally with oil cash vexes the US / Saudi ‘could double oil output’ / Economic Tsunami: Coming Sooner Than You Think / They Really Are Watching You / Crises, survivalism and the rural life

McKillop: Amoco’s magic curve / How to ease yourself across the oil peak / Senators seek bipartisan energy bill / Scharzenegger weighs in on federal energy bill / California: importing power, fostering pollution / Latin states seek more control of oil / Foreign gas companies in Bolivia face higher taxes / Bolivia erupts / China: Danger of melting Everest glaciers / Julian Darley and Celine Rich interviewed / Global wind map may provide better locations for wind farms / City folk support farmers through CSAs / Small family farms ‘may vanish’ in UK / Organic farming pioneer dies / Vegetable puppets fight back against industrial agriculture

CS Monitor reviews Deffeyes / McKillop: Shift to the Euro would lock-in higher oil prices / PO Conference in Sweden May 23 / Review of “The Long Emergency” / How a clever world could self-destruct / Energy is behind troubles in Uzbekistan / … in Bolivia / … in Ecuador / Australia and East Timor / Arctic oil search moves to new turf, new controversies / Oil and Gas drilling could contaminate precious aquifers / Scotland nuclear safety failures revealed / Ultra-clean coal / Saudi oil minister comments on oil supply / North Sea oil production continues decline / IEA: World oil demand growth slows / China: ignore its
oil thirst at your own peril / UK City hedge funds head for domino collapse / A Higher Power Informs the Republican Assault on the Environment / US Rejects Airline Climate Taxes, EU Considers / How almost everyone in Kerala learned to read / Kudzu root extract may curb excess drinking