Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Bill Weinberg The Iraq war may have knocked Colombia off the front page, but Mideast chaos has made South America’s energy resources more strategic to the United States….Meanwhile, the oil industry has charted a new thrust into the Amazon regions of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia – countries all now receiving U.S. military aid…
The reality is, that for all the paper wealth being generated by the so-called knowledge-based economy, Canada’s entire post-industrial economy still floats on an ‘old economy’ pool of oil and gas.
The momentous challenge facing the Bush Administration and America is the very real danger to the continuing supply of America’s very lifeblood: oil.
The moon contains 10 times more energy in the form of helium-3 than all the fossil fuels on the earth, but the fusion reactor technology may be decades away.
The existence of inevitable limits to resource consumption and planet-systems resilience is now being challenged, and defended, in mainstream media.
Colorado utilities will have to sell a lot
more electricity from wind power in years to come under a statewide
ballot initiative approved by voters on Nov. 2, and if they want
some pointers they might talk to Adam T. Kremers, a 19-year-old
sophomore at Colorado State University here. He has been there and
done that.
China, Japan and South Korea are mounting a new combined challenge to the “Asian premium”, long a scourge of regional oil-importing economies.
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries would not adopt the euro to replace the US dollar as the currency for oil sales, the body’s president, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, said yesterday.
Grasping the reality of Hubberts peak is difficult for many, possibly because crude oil may be the first nonrenewable resource to pass through such a peak. But a resource does not need to be a nonrenewable to show a Hubbert curve. A biological resource which is exploited much faster than it is replaced may also follow a bell-curve, and the whaling industry of the 19th Century a good example.
Canada’s known natural gas reserves continue to decline even though a record number of wells were drilled in 2003, the energy industry announced Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow had committed itself to writing off 90 percent of Iraq’s debts, more than the 80 percent of forgiveness agreed by the Paris Club of sovereign debtors.
Aware of Iran’s dependence on India to market its gas, New Delhi is dragging its feet even as Tehran pumped up the gas on the proposed Iran-India pipeline traversing through Pakistan.
