Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Kazakh oil: a war of nerves
Global warming threatens Asia-Pacific security, warns Australian PM
Fresh violence in Bolivia stokes civil war fears
Poison Fire interview (film about Nigerian oil)
Monbiot: protectionism makes you rich
Professor Kjell Aleklett, (known for his research on the world’s declining oil resources) and his researchers at Uppsala University have been given a challenging task – they will estimate China’s future need for oil and gas.
IEA says oil demand slowing as US changes lifestyle
Raymond James: US natural gas (investors) in trouble
Regulators can’t quantify oil speculators
Vital for the nation’s oil and gas, Port Fourchon looks to rebound
Testimony before the S. Australian Legislative Committee on Peak Oil
EU transport – go green or go under
Peak oil peak – sandwich-board energy theorists are glum
This amazing kid
Report says oil agency ran amok
MMS chicks drilling for dollars and drugs
Sex ‘n drugs ‘n minerals management
Huge increase in spending on water urged to avert global catastrophe
Shrinking water supplies and growing energy demands
California revives program to buy water from farmers
The price spike of early 2008 was merely a dress rehearsal. The fall in oil demand gives the world a moment to catch its breath before the inevitable price-ratcheting process starts up again. Meanwhile, at $100 or so, the price of oil is still 50 per cent higher than last year and 10 times the level of a decade ago.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
It’s a wrap (Living without plastics)
Trash or treasure: The designer objects made of rubbish
Vermont landfill to make electricity from garbage
Transition Towns in the Guardian
… in the Christian Science Monitor
Thou shalt go green (evangelicals and PO)
On the transformative potential of community-scale food production
Wherever I lay my hat
“Terra preta” refers to the rich, fertile artificial soils found in the Amazon. In this post I’ll have a look at modern day techniques to produce terra preta (often called biochar or agrichar) which have the potential to increase soil fertility, generate energy and sequester carbon all at the same time.
The Outer Continental Shelf is not a panacea for today’s higher oil prices. The best prospects in US waters – including most of the Gulf of Mexico and a thousand miles of Alaskan shoreline – are already open for leasing. There’s probably some oil in the moratoria areas, but it is a decade or more from market.
