Renewables – Jan 21
China drought underlines risks of relying on hydropower
2007: record year for US wind industry
Advocates of renewables on the 07 energy bill
Staff
Biofuels – Jan 21
Debate over biofuels continues
Jamaica: Debate heats up as food prices rise
Biofuels, at what cost?
Biofuels: an alternative to U.S. Air Force petroleum fuel dependency
Food scarcity – Jan 21
NY Times: Global oil quandary: costly fuel means costly calories
Is this the end of cheap food?
WorldChanging on high food prices
West Africa: food prices climbing, crisis feared
India: Situation on food front alarming
Pakistan: Food riots feared due to shortage of quality wheat
Over 1 million Afghans face food shortage
Energy industry – Jan 21
Prospecting for gas and oil in Lake Geneva
Panel: state of the energy industry
Oilsands producers get failing grade on environment
Coal industry plugs into the campaign
The coal truth on candidates
Peak oil – Jan 21
Wall St. Journal on CERA report
The construction site called Saudi Arabia
Shell exec on oil demand, climate and the energy ladder
CERA’s silly season
Bush’s allusion to peak oil
Tough sledding on other side of peak oil
EU energy chief warns about ‘peak oil’
Peak Oil Review – January 21st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Peak Oil — Pro and Con
– Kashagan
– Food versus Fuel Again
– Energy Briefs
CERA’s depletion study: the “good news” about running up the down escalator
There’s more spin on this report than there is kudzu in Georgia. …Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, on behalf of ASPO-USA, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.
Stocks fall, recession ahead?
WSJ: US warning signs point toward a deep recession
Stocks plummet in Germany, Hong Kong, India, Brazil
London shares in biggest fall since 9/11
Stocks plunge worldwide on fears of a US recession
Jerome a Paris: The next domino
Kunstler: Fullblown panic
The evil twins
Discussion of global warming seldom makes any connection between the ecology of temperature change and pending fuel shortages. This is a really bad error.
Annals of the rising Lilliputians
The center of gravity of power is shifting relentlessly from the West. The most successful cars are made in Japan. The power of the purse is shifting to less profligate countries like Singapore, and petro-powers like Kuwait. Manufacturing has gone to China. Energy is in the hands of Saudi Arabia, Russia and others.
Pipeline diplomacy – Jan 20
Israel cuts off Gaza’s electricity
Pipeline cements Russia’s hold on Europe’s gas supply
Why Russia is winning the pipeline war: Putin
Peak oil: Why is it so difficult to explain/understand?
Peak Oil is about RATE. And RATE is dependent on the SIZE, AGE and QUALITY of the RESERVES.
