US takes the lead in trashing planet
For more than four years, President Bush has told us he needs to see the ”sound science” on global warming before joining the rest of the world in combating it.
Derrick Z. Jackson
Indonesia May Become an Oil Importer as Output Slides
Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s only OPEC member, may become a net oil importer this year as projects led by ConocoPhillips, Unocal Corp. and PetroChina Co. fail to stem falling output, helping to boost fuel prices to records.
Audio: Is The Russian Oil Boom Over?
Robert Ebel of CSIS, Washington, talks to Global Public Media’s Julian Darley about the difficulties that Russian oil and gas production now faces. He also comments on US energy policy and the new Oilfields Megaprojects Report.
A Proposal for a new Renewable Energy Source: the Atmospheric Vortex Engine
An interesting proposal for an ‘atmospheric vortex engine’, a variation on the solar chimney concept for channeling solar energy as wind to drive a generator.
Bank says Saudi’s top field in decline
Speculation over the actual size of Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves is reaching fever pitch as a major bank says the kingdom’s – and the world’s – biggest field, Gharwar, is in irreversible decline.
Global Warning
Social critic James Howard Kunstler has railed for years against the twin evils of bad urban design and suburban sprawl. Based in Saratoga Springs, the author of The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere warns that our beloved cars — and the subdivided landscape they drive us to — are leading American culture down a four-lane highway to destruction.
Japan risks China anger over gas
Japan has begun allocating gas exploration rights in an area of the East China Sea also claimed by China.
Peak Oil and Mirage Realism
Realism is the philosophical notion that what our scientific theories tell us about the world are more or less, or approximately true.
High oil prices appear to be curbing demand
According to the IEA, high prices appear to be stemming global oil demand, a view not shared by Opec.
Imperial Reach
Michael Klare discusses the recent and proposed changes to locations of US overseas bases in relation to changed geopolitical circumstances and the need to protect its sources of oil.
Saudis promise to open oil spigots
Saudi Arabia is promising petroleum buyers all the crude they want to build inventories ahead of an expected sharp increase in demand, according to a media report Thursday. The world’s largest oil exporter is offering to pump to capacity, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition, citing an unnamed senior OPEC official.
Shell deal fires up Gorgon gas hopes
The $11 billion Gorgon gas project, off the West Australia coast, moved a step closer yesterday with project partner Shell saying it had finalised the sale of 2.5 million tonnes of Gorgon LNG (liquefied natural gas) a year to the US west coast.
