Stranded assets
Following a severe reduction in oil supplies and the implosion of the Irish development bubble, there will be a wide range of distress sale, stranded assets up for grabs at knock down prices.
Roger Adair
Let me kill off once and for all the Iranian oil bourse story
Crazy scenarios involving Iran’s purported attempts to create an oil bourse to start selling oil in euros make the rounds regularly. These things WILL NOT HAPPEN. So let me explain why an Iranian oil bourse will not work for the foreseeable future.
Brian Schweitzer on 60 Minutes tonight
The governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer, says he can turn the billions of tons of coal under his state into enough diesel fuel to greatly reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. Schweitzer speaks to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl this Sunday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Peak oil – Feb 26
Environmentalist David Orr on peak oil, climate change and our response to them /
Heinberg and experts debate fall in oil production /
Beyond Peak Oil scenario competition /
Matt Simmons speech /
Author William Clark speaks on Washington-Teheran tensions
Other energy – Feb 25
Japan utilities eye summer oil as LNG hits records /
World has bigger oil worries than size of reserves /
Microorganisms key to ethanol production /
HighCountry special issue on energy /
Bush admits to ‘mixed signals’ on renewable energy lab /
Alaska, energy firms agree on pipeline /
UK: We’re in for nasty weather – and no gas
Politics & energy – Feb 25
Oil jumps after attempted attack on Saudi processing plant /
Shell told to pay Nigeria $1.5bn /
Niger Delta crisis affecting crude oil prices and supplies /
Will fight for oil (Ted Koppel maintains oil drives foreign policy) /
Ports & petrodollars /
Killing the Iranian oil bourse story
Peak Fish: Hooked on fishing, and we’re heading for the bottom, says scientist
The world has passed “peak fish” and fishermen’s nets will be hauling in ever diminishing loads unless there’s political action to stem the global tide of over fishing, says a fisheries expert based at the University of British Columbia.
Other energy – Feb 24
Record year for wind energy /
Bush: U.S. on verge of energy breakthrough /
Interview: Chevron invests in new energy sources, fears rising oil prices /
And we thought Colorado had natural gas problems
Politics & economics – Feb 24
Crude tactics in the Niger delta /
Niger Delta: the gathering storm of war /
The 21st century threat: global energy terrorism /
S.Africa energy crisis may hit investment /
Ecuador reaches truce with oil protesters /
Bush advisers urge veto of oil company tax break cuts
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 24
Smart friction-free sailing /
Lovins and other links /
Forgotten by many, a Brooklyn neighborhood nourishes its own /
How the feds make bad-for-you food cheaper than healthful fare (the cheap-corn policy)
Reflections on Six Years of Relieving Oneself into a Bucket.
The time has come at TransitionCulture to address one of the less palatable but, I think, more fascinating aspects of this whole energy descent business. What happens when it becomes too costly, unfeasible or, due to sudden disruptions to our energy supplies, impossible, to run our mains sewage system?
Hotter, faster, worser
Over the past several months, the normally restrained voice of science has taken on a distinct note of panic when it comes to global warming.
