US military oil pains
The US Department of Defence is the single largest oil consumer in the world, and while cost has driven some savings, progress is limited.
Sohbet Karbuz
Energy: healthcare’s preconditional crisis
Modern healthcare is dependent upon enormous inputs of energy and an array of petroleum-derived products. Nevertheless, there is silence and inaction regarding the threats posed by the end of the fossil fuel era,
Enough with the freakin’ bathroom metaphor already!
Embedded in this argument is “dignity is equivalent to my not having to share.” I actually believe the contrary – that real dignity begins at the point that we recognize that other people have rights to the bathroom too, and find a means of acomodating them.
Oil Industry – Feb 15
Oil E&P costs increase 53% in two years
Belarus hikes Russian oil transit fees
US Governor wants $1.50 per barrel oil tax
Price of oil heading into swoon: investment firm
US OK’s new oil reserve site
Climate – Feb 15
Branson offers $25 million prize to ‘defeat global warming’ (critique)
Measuring the uncertainty of climate change
Population growth plays a key role
Utilities’ study questions prospects for much lower emissions
Transport – Feb 15
Sick transit
Clearing the air on air travel
Passenger jets get a radical green makeover
India: Call for tax increase on cars
Nuclear – Feb 15
UK government loses nuclear power case
Japanese nuclear power steams ahead
Israel considers building nuclear plant
Biofuels – Feb 15
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
S. Africa: Making sure it’s worth the candle
Ethanol has fish, wildlife officials worried
Jatropha, the Cinderella plant
Renewables – Feb 15
The heated debate over Citizenre
WSJ: The new math of alternative energy
Renewables to power Indonesian villages
How green is BC’s plan?
Targets are bold, but aim seems wobbly
Natural resources will help meet green goals
Greening of BC insincere, impotent after Apr 1
Campbell’s souped-up climate initiative
Peak oil – Feb 15
Chevron exec: Running out of oil may not be the issue
CERA’s Jackson:
Peak oil theory could distort energy policy and debate
Aubrey Meyer on the confluence of peak oil and climate change
UK Environment Research Agency – no peak pil strategy
More from Big Oil – Feb 15
Big Oil’s hot air show on global warming
Exxon cautions against rapid action on GHGs
Risks from oil nationalism “unacceptable”
