Russia – Dec 28
Russia signs deal for Caspian gas pipeline
Russia’s big energy secret: can barely meet own demand
Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan sign Caspian pipeline accord
The Pipeline War: As the CondiBoys bicker, Putin laps the West again
Staff
Oil producers – Dec 28
The Oil and the Glory: slick account of geopolitics in Central Asia
Chavez oil diplomacy gains ground
Chavez announces “a new geopolitics of oil”
Running just to stand still (Mexico’s Pemex)
Energy industries – Dec 28
Gods of the rotary table
Australia: Big Oil’s highway robbery
New Type of coal plant moves ahead, haltingly
Uranium deposit sparks controversy in Pittsylvania county
Food & agriculture – Dec 28
Why “the end of cheap food” isn’t automatically a good thing
Does less energy mean more farmers ?
Resisting the globalization of food: the return of the bread riot
Our stuff – Dec 28
Your stuff: if it isn’t grown, it must be mined
Plastics provoke ‘wrap rage’
‘Paper or plastic?’ The eco-friendly answer is ‘neither – reusable’
Christmas lights spark concern in Switzerland
The peak oil crisis: storm of the century
Welcome to “peak climate,” “peak food,” “peak water,” “peak electricity,” or as some people are putting it, “peak everything.”
Population – Dec 24
Fertility rate in USA on upswing
Humanity is the greatest challenge
Driving the human ecological footprint
Who Knew? Albert Bartlett interview
The crisis that dares not say its name
The third rail of world politics
The U. S. Social Security system is said to be the third rail of American politics; touch it and you die. Politically, that is. But there is another broader issue that seems to have become the third rail for world politics: overpopulation.
Population, consumption drive global climate change and environmental degradation
The impact of population and consumption is so profound that they may outpace any potential environmental benefits from industrial modernization and improving technologies.
A Christmas Eve story
Two things happened to me over this weekend before Christmas that jarred me a little. One was when an old friend said I sounded crazy, and the second was when I read the galley proof of Dmitry Orlov’s forthcoming book, Reinventing Collapse.
Peak Oil Review – December 24th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Energy Bill
– 3. Mexico
– 4. Gazprom
– 5. Energy Briefs
Emissions showdown between Bush and California
EPA chief is said to have ignored staff
States vow to back Calif. against Bush
NY Times: Arrogance and warming
One nation, one energy plan – but it’s the wrong one
