Peak oil – Nov 8
Peak oil on BBC Newsnight
Peak Oil in the Aberdeen business press
£1 per litre petrol drives peak oil on ITV
Energy Crossroads wins first place at film festival
Reviews of A Crude Awakening
Staff
Coal – Nov 8
Coal conversion dilemma for US
New plants put King Coal in the cross hairs in Iowa
Coal in three nations could undo much of world’s efforts
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 8
Innovative program helps residents protect their water
Environmentalism with a social conscience
Taking the tasty approach
Green computing update
Oil price impacts – Nov 8
Big Oil struggles with high costs
The slippery slope of rising oil prices
Greenspan: Economy will acclimate to $100 oil
$100 oil forces new energy policy on U.S.
Analysts say burden could spur recession
$100 oil would have a big political impact
As energy prices soar, industries collide
BP CEO: ‘Era of cheap energy is behind us’
This doorstopper opens our eyes to the energy crisis (IEA report)
Young Daniel Yergin as peak oil activist (book review)
CERA chairman Daniel Yergin co-edited a book in 1979 that argued for solar power and energy conservation. The book was pessimistic about the future for oil in an America that had passed its point of peak oil production.
What’s behind the jump in oil prices?
Responses by:
Shell Oil president John Hofmeister
ASPO’s Steve Andrews
CERA
Jerome a Paris of Daily Kos
Ralph Nader
Libertarian Ronald Bailey
IEA issues a grim energy report – Nov 7
“I am sorry to say this, but we are headed toward really bad days,” says Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency. The IEA’s annual World Energy Outlook, released today, pointed to supply shortfalls and skyrocketing demand from China and India. Coverage by TIME, NY Times, BBC, Guardian.
IEA “supply crunch” is not peak oil – Birol
There is no contradition between the International Energy Agency’s forecast of long term oil supply growth to 2030 and a “supply crunch” by 2015, according to its chief economist Fatih Birol. Mr Birol insisted today that the short term crisis would not be caused by a fundamental shortage of oil but by entirely man-made factors.
Oil supplies – Nov 7
As oil prices approach $100, US supplies fall
Non-OPEC supply boost fails to be seen
This week in petroleum
Energy statistics by country
More on the IEA report – Nov 7
Rise in global energy demands ‘alarming,’ IEA says
Surge in oil prices not just speculation
Turkish Weekly coverage
Key predictions of the report
Peak oil – Nov 7
Oil Apocalypse coming to History Channel
A ‘Modest Proposal’ from Dave Cohen
Review: A Crude Awakening
ODAC news
Waiting for the other shoe
Foreshocks ripple through the commodity and credit markets, the once-optimistic IEA warns of an energy crunch, and a famous conservative pundit raises a white flag: business as usual, or signs of imminent crisis? The Archdruid Report looks at current news stories.
