Oil production – Sept 21
Fresh delay for BP’s Thunder Horse
Rig shortage to stunt oil output growth for years
Australian oil production decline over 8%
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Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
Britain’s leading scientists challenge ExxonMobil to stop funding dozens of groups that “misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence”.
California AG sues auto makers over emissions
Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed a lawsuit against leading U.S. and Japanese auto manufacturers, alleging their vehicles’ emissions have contributed significantly to global warming, harmed the resources, infrastructure and environmental health of California, and cost the state millions of dollars to address current and future effects.
The peak oil crisis: a report to Australia’s Senate
Last fall Australia’s Senate, concerned about the future of the country’s oil supply, directed a standing committee to conduct an inquiry… In essence, the Committee was asked to investigate peak oil
Environment – Sept 21
US droughts may eclipse Dust Bowl
Fires Sweep Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra
Illegal logging costs billions
China taps into foreign water solutions
Energy policy – Sept 21
Saudi wary of “green” policies to reduce oil consumption
Alaska astir over plan to tap its NG
Bangladesh faces energy dilemma: coal?
Fuel diversification: coal to liquids
Climate policy – Sept 21
Branson pledges billions to fight GW
White House outlines global warming fight
DOE releases climate change plan
Australian PM not moved by US climate policy
Hot issue in Oregon race: global warming
California: two new bills on warming
GW is subject for directors at big companies
Monbiot: threat is from those who accept climate change, not not those who deny it
Environmental journals feel pressure to adopt disclosure rules
Politics and economics – Sept 21
For Bush, cheaper gas = popularity
Chavez – an
emerging force
Being angry at Russia is pointless
Russia cancels Shell’s Sakhalin license
Drive to create jobs in Indonesia
Brazil poor feel benefits of Lula’s policies
Is high-flying economy heading for turbulence?
Solutions and sustainability – Sept 21
Toward an International Energy Transition Plan
NY Mayor and California Governor in sustainability inititive
Energy rebounds and amplifications
Physicist Takes Energy Efficiency From Theory to Practice
Heinberg & Holmgren Australia Tour
Hirsch at Oil and Money conference
Food and agriculture – Sept 21
UK Agriculture, Organic Farming and Relocalisation
Virtual Water Trade and Water Footprints
On India’s Farms, a Plague of Suicide
Climate – Sept 20
Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial
The smoke is rising on climate-change deniers
Drought may eclipse dust bowl
Gore tells of an inconvenient Australian truth
California sues carmakers
Starving seabirds hit by climate change?
Climate change makes fish migrate
Climate change threatens lemurs
Production declines in spite of high oil prices
While the price of West Texas Intermediate oil about $27/barrel higher than the average during 2004, global liquid hydrocarbons production declined more than 100,000 barrels/day.
