Transport – Nov 17
Europe to impose airline emission controls
UK govt buys carbon offsets for air travel
Superhighway may create ‘the Los Angeles of England’
Polluting cars face charge rise in London
Year: 2006
Oil Industry – Nov 17
Will Mexico be ready when oil runs dry?
Mexico’s energy crisis has arrived
Feeding frenzy for African oil fields gathers pace
Uganda urged to Emulate Libya
Big Oil headed for tougher Congress
Australia’s Woodside cuts 2006 output target
Russia – Nov 17
The uneasy Russia-E.U. energy relationship
Video: Sakhalin’s Black Tears
Head of Russian oil fund shot dead in Moscow
Recent assassinations shake confidence in Putin’s system
Fifty Million Farmers
One way or another, re-ruralization will be the dominant social trend of the 21st century.
Shale oil and tar sands – Nov 17
US approves shale oil projects
Israel sees shale replacing oil
Report: Oil sands global warming threat
Bitumen inventory blowout sale
Climate policy – Nov 17
Annan criticises US over global warming
Climate insurance urged for poor
The cost of climate change
White House sued for not doing report on warming
Avery and Singer: warming not caused by humans
Blair faces revolt over C02 targets
UK climate bill to balance environmental and energy concerns
Peak Oil – Nov 17
Oil supplies? Don’t worry!
ImPOssible Mission
Marxist J.B. Foster cites peak oil
IHS data suggest Kuwaiti and global proved oil reserves significantly lower than BP estimates
Food & agriculture – Nov 17
Eric Schlosser on America’s food industry and his new film
NYT: Why roots matter more (local food)
Research needed to balance food, energy needs
Australia importing grain – so they can export it
Does the peak oil “myth” just fall down? – our response to CERA
The first of a comprehensive and in-depth set of rebuttals to the CERA report from The Oil Drum.
Association for the Debunking of Peak Oil, part 2
A good many of the things that Mr. Esser [from CERA] said to the subcommittee of the U.S. Congress are technically correct… They are also part of the very intelligent discussion that occurs whenever a group of Peak Oil aficionados gets together. It is not as if CERA has some monopoly on the magic elixir of understanding oil depletion issues, or the secret-decoder ring without which all others are flailing about in the dark.
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 16
The Potential of Electrified Urban Rail and/or Electric Vehicles
Is CHP the future of home energy?
Making Mercedes in Ghana
UK shoppers dropping pounds from their waste
A bigger economy doesn’t buy happiness
Computer server farms increase efficiency
A green future for colleges
Press reaction to CERA report
Pulitzer winner suggests world has plenty of oil
Firm: Peak oil theory is bogus
A world awash in oil?
Attempt to discredit theory falls short
