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Post Carbon Institute The imminent peaking of global oil production and the fact that natural gas production has already peaked in North America could be the catalyst for positive transformation of industrial society. It could also be a recipe for disaster.
A new study states that a terrorist attack on an LNG tanker would cause horrific fires, causing major injuries and significant damage to buildings a third of a mile away and second-degree burns on people more than a mile away.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Beijing for an official visit that aims to bolster his country’s oil deals with the Asian giant, state media and officials said.
An oil rich nation, where a minority is accused of benefiting disproportionately from mineral wealth…Clashes between police and the inhabitants of oil-producing areas that result in deaths…A scene from Nigeria? No – Ndolou, in south-western Gabon.
Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, could team up with the China National Petroleum Corporation to develop the Yukos oil company’s main production asset, sold to a mystery bidder on Sunday.
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year had a famous father who famously remarked a decade ago that “the American way of life is not negotiable.” To keep the suburban expansion going indefinitely we will need to continue using one-quarter of the world’s oil every day.
Industry demands tax breaks, regulatory changes to hunt for oil at the bottom of the sea….America’s onshore sources are nearly tapped out… Luckily, the United States holds claim to one of the world’s richest oil deposits: the Gulf of Mexico.
Nation gambles on amped-up push for renewable power
A significant surplus in cereal stocks is expected, for the first time since 1999/2000 as global cereal production hits a record 2.04 billion tonnes in 2004, says FAO in Food Outlook.
The recent peak in oil prices was due to the depletion of the world’s reserves rather than temporary supply problems in a number of countries, Feasta, an Irish-based research organisation claimed at the COP-10 climate conference in Buenos Aires.
Apart from pure avarice and ego, the actions of the Bush Administration have the appearance of incredible desperateness. It is that desperateness – their desperado-like, passionate, furious recklessness – which must cause us to ask, does the Bush Administration know something that we do not know? What do they know that makes them act like desperadoes?
Head of the Russian Federation`s Atomic Energy Agency Alexander
Rumyantsev said on Saturday that Russia may construct seven other
nuclear power plants in Iran.
