Dear Energy Bulletin,
I am the editor and developer of the first Brazilian website focusing exclusively on Peak Oil – www.picodopetroleo.com.br – which was launched in the beginning of 2010. The site is a non-profit initiative and its content consists almost entirely of Portuguese translations of posts found on the Internet. My main source is the Energy Bulletin, which I have been following since 2006, when I first learned about Peak Oil. I would like to thank EB editors for the excellent content posted everyday, as well as the writers listed at the bottom of this letter, whose posts have been translated into Portuguese and are on my website.
I wonder if you would be so kind as to inform them that some of their posts are already available for Portuguese-speaking readers and to thank them on my behalf. Even though I can read English, I am not able to write or speak the language and therefore cannot write to them myself (even this letter had to be translated from Portuguese by a professional translator). As the aim of my website is to present different opinions and interesting discussions about Peak Oil, the list of EB contributors present in www.picodopetroleo.com.br includes authors who differ about some ideas, as is the case of Nansen Saleri x Steve Andrews in 2008. In the list below, the names of those authors who contribute more regularly to EB are underlined.
A new article by Dave Cohen analyzing Brazilian deepwater discoveries and discussing if our deepwater production is likely to postpone the beginning of Brazilian peak oil would be very much appreciated. His 2007 very interesting post “God is Brazilian?” is one of his many important contributions to the site and I have been looking forward to an updating of his impressions on the matter.
There is one more favor I must ask from you. I would like to get in touch with William Catton and would appreciate it if you could provide me with his e-mail address. I have had chapters 2 and 3 of his book Overshoot translated into Portuguese. Although not even the English original version of the book is available in Brazilian bookshops, the publishers – University of Illinois Press – are not allowing me to post the Portuguese rendering of the aforementioned chapters.
That is the reason why I would like to ask Catton himself if there is something he can do about it. Alternatively, if contacting him by email is not possible, I wonder if somebody from EB could talk to him about my effort to make his ideas accessible to Portuguese-speaking readers.
With best regards,
Fabio Fernandes Dias
Energy Bulletin authors on www.picodopetroleo.com.br during October 2010
Adam Grubb
Ali Samsam Bakhtiari
Carolyn Baker
Colin J. Campbell
Dale Allen Pfeifer
Dale Jiajun Wen
Daniel Yergin
Dave Cohen
David Murphy
Fabio F. Dias
Gail Tverberg
Jaime N. Mendes
Jean H. Laherrère
Jim Kingsdale
John Leland
John Michael Greer
Leonardo Maugeri
Lorena Verli
Lyle K. Grant
Martin T. Sosnoff
Matthew Wild
Mauro Alves dos Santos
Michael Bomford
Michael Lynch
Michael T. Klare
Mickey Foley
Nansen Saleri
Newton M. Pereira
Paul Chefurka
Paul Krugman
Peter Goodchild
Peter McKenzie-Brown
Prof. Goose (The Oil Drum)
Rembrandt Koppelaar
Richard Heinberg
Richard Manning
Robert L. Hirsch
Roger Blanchard
Sérgio E. S. da Rosa
Sharon Astyk
Stan Cox
Steve Andrews
Stuart Staniford
Tom Whipple
