Other energy – Apr 11
With boost from sugar cane, Brazil satisfies its fuel needs /
Now in the rearview mirror: low gasoline prices /
Offshore drilling plan widens rifts over energy policy
Year: 2006
Field of nightmares: A conversation with climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert
No writing about global warming has had more impact over the past year than a series of closely observed pieces in “The New Yorker” by Elizabeth Kolbert, which have now been collected and expanded into a book. The book ends with these chilling words: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”
Energy secretary quietly dismantles Energy Advisory Board
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has quietly disbanded the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), the department’s “principal independent advisory board on scientific and technical matters,” reports Nature magazine.
Oil Major CEO talks about “the real problem of peak oil”
Christophe de Margerie of Total says the problem is not with reserves per se, but with the rates of production, and that we will never be able to reach the production levels predicted by the IEA (International Energy Agency) – or by the US Department of Energy, for that matter – simply because it is taking increasing efforts to get the oil out of the ground and that effort cannot be accomplished with today’s industrial resources.
TV news series on peak oil
WCCO-TV in Minnesota began broadcasting the first US news series that explicitly covers peak oil.
Should we use net energy to measure global energy reserves?
As the world moves ever closer to the time when vital, finite energy resources begin to decline, we need to know not how much oil, natural gas, coal or uranium is left; rather, we need to know how much usable energy is left in these resources.
Report from the 7th International Oil Summit in Paris
More then 75% of remaining oil reserves are in the hands of National Oil Companies (NOCs). International Oil Companies (IOCs) are producing at maximum capacity using all available technology. Hence IOCs are eager to convince the NOCs that they need new partners in the future.
Environment – Apr 8
U.S. energy companies call for caps on carbon emissions /
Texas professor criticized over comments about pandemic /
The Worldchanging newsstand /
Big Gav does global warming /
Global warmers: American Electric Power /
Australian CEOs on climate risks /
Heat rising at the Washington Post (scientist bashing)
Peak oil – Apr 8
Kaboom: Peak copper, superspike prices, oil and US debt /
Peak oil passnotes: oil prepares to push on /
No problemo? Rochester and the decline of cheap oil (Kunstler) /
A peek past peak oil by UBC professor
Other energy – Apr 8
Project Energy on WCCO-TV /
The great game of global gas /
U.S. senators unveil plan to rein in big oil, OPEC /
Opec toothless to tame high oil prices : UAE /
US Energy secretary: oil prices to impact economy /
Chinese influence in Brazil worries US (ethanol) /
Iran: the next neocon target
Other energy – Apr 7
Critiquing the 2006 Megaprojects report /
Oil prices pushed higher by manipulating oil futures trading /
Economic brief: E.U. energy policy /
Iran military hints at Strait of Hormuz blockade
Environment – Apr 7
Review: “The Weather Makers” by Tim Flannery /
Climate researchers feeling heat from White House (censorship) /
UK Times: Do nothing? You cannot be serious /
Fossil fuels threatening sea life /
Progress in fighting air pollution might apply to CO2 /
Policymakers need grassroots impetus on climate change /
Laurie David takes global warming to the mainstream
