Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
SEC staffer In a short letter sent today to the White House, nearly 50 environmental, business, anti-nuclear, sustainable energy, and energy policy organizations disputed a recent statement by President Bush that nuclear power is a “renewable source of energy.”
Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation have signed the first phase of a term of reference for the future implementation of a bilateral biofuel program aimed at exporting ethanol and biodiesel fuel to the Japanese market.
Readers should have no delusions about the state of New Zealand; it is being driven off the energy cliff in an orgy of consumption.
Crude-oil production by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell 1.2 per cent in January, led by declines in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, a Bloomberg survey showed.
…a curious transformation is occurring in Washington, D.C., a split of foreign policy and energy policy: Many of the leading neoconservatives who pushed hard for the Iraq war are going green.
Community Service, Inc., has produced a proposal for a prototype housing development in response to Peak Oil that promotes energy-efficient building techniques, a sense of community, economic sustainability and local food production.
It would seem that – in addition to Peak Oil – we are at a time of Peak Technology… there are no new technologies we can look to for solutions to the end of fossil fuels.
A complex look at Shells performance and prospects that, while loosing a few broadsides, fails to draw any useful conclusions from its observations; worth reading for the latest in corporate spins on depletion.
Royal Dutch/Shell Group cut its reserves for a fifth time, showing its oil and gas holdings were at least a third lower than reported in 2002 after the company misled investors and failed to find new fields.
VHeadline.com oil industry commentarist Andrew McKillop looks at the simplistic methods of most economic experts, and beyond to the real supply constraints that must see invasion trigger a major price spike.
The competition for remaining oil & gas reserves just gets hotter, with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation making recent commitments to Caspian and Sakhalin Island projects, meanwhile pursuing stray Yukos assets.
Article describes Putins success in using competition between China & Japan for oil supply to pay for a rather long pipeline, while ultimately managing to please all parties.
