Peak oil in the U.S. Congress
The indefatigable Congressman from Maryland spoke yesterday to the House of Representatives yesterday on the Hirsch Report, conservation, and a vision for the future.
Year: 2006
Peak oil – Feb 10
Former White House official admits SOTU energy comments were about peak oil /
Macleans: When the oil runs out /
Peak oil on Irish radio /
Pat Murphy on peak oil and Cuba /
BBC coverage on “Fuelling the future”
Politics & economics – Feb 10
Mexico’s oil output may decline sharply /
Bush’s budget would cut conservation funding /
Woes mount for oil firms in Ecuador /
Backgrounder on Bolivia’s new president /
Fortune: The hard truth about oil /
Read my lips… No new energy strategy
The State of the State (of energy)
A survey of what U.S. governors said about energy in their State of the State addresses. None of the governors grasped the concept that technology does not equal energy. None addressed the core issue of continued growth in a finite system.
Hirsch Report back on DOE website
Several weeks ago the risk management study into Peak Oil known commonly as the Hirsch Report disappeared from the website of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. After enquiries by Energy Bulletin editors the report has been returned to the website…
Telling stories: the restorative power of myth
Recently, writer Bill McKibben issued a call for artists to grapple with the epoch-making topic of global warming. “If the scientists are right,” he wrote, “we’re living through the biggest thing that’s happened since human civilization emerged.” In order to wrap our minds around the enormity, he said, we must engage our most creative and dramatic sensibilities. We must create art.
Evangelical leaders join global warming initiative
Despite opposition from some of their colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying “millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors.”
Sustainability & solutions – Feb 9
The community car /
Sustainability Network Update #56 /
Online book on managing farm pests ecologically /
Creating the modern “EcoHood” /
Back to the farm: Japanese retirees are choosing gardens over golf /
Polluting households face green taxes /
A drive toward fewer cars in Seattle
Peak oil – Feb 8
Bartlett: The next conservative energy policy /
Peak oil: accounting controversy looms /
ExxonMobil sees 50% increase in energy demand /
Will Iran dispute push oil to $130? /
Big Oil is rich, getting richer … and dying
Sweden plans to be world’s first oil-free economy
Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years – without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.
Other energy – Feb 8
What’s raining on solar’s parade? /
Kentucky’s underground economy (coal) /
Preparing for life after fossil fuels in Australia (bio-diesel) /
Canada has 8 years of natural gas left – researcher /
Exxon: America will always rely on foreign oil
Politics & economics – Feb 8
Cuba’s oil bid angers U.S. /
Bush wants new fuels, but cuts energy-saving program /
Farmers try to limit pain of high fuel prices /
Budget doesn’t allocate funds to build oil reserve /
The geopolitics of natural gas
