Environment & water – June 30
U.S. ecosystem report indicates trouble
The intersections of energy and water
US mayors agree to phase out bottled water
Staff
Climate – June 30
No ice at North Pole: Dramatic evidence of climate change
North Pole may Be ice free for first time this summer
Bill McKibben: Climate change activists have chosen a magic number: 350 ppm
350 ppm, the video
Peak oil – June 30
Michael Klare: End of the petroleum age?
Former President Bush energy adviser says oil is running out (Simmons)
Growing prices, demand raise uncomfortable questions
Peak scam
Imagining peak oil – June 30
LA Times: Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil
The challenges of peak oil
Tammemagi: Civilization’s golden era is teetering on collapse
Oil disquiet on the Western front
Australia & New Zealand – June 30
EB founder quoted in Australian House debate
Police warned Varanus plant: report (NG pipeline explosion)
The energy crisis needs a clear head
Astonishing farewell speech by NZ MP Nándor Tánczos
The legacy of Nandor
Peak oil strategies – June 30
Crash course- preparing for peak oil (book review)
Fixing peak oil is easy
Retreat location and avoiding the golden horde
Nuclear & sequestration – June 30
ITER costs give partners pause (fusion pricetag jumps)
Nuclear cost estimates may put end to renaissance
Carbon sequestration: bury the idea, not the CO2
Geopolitics – June 30
Report: U.S. ‘preparing the battlefield’ in Iran
Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy
Dubai: spots on the sun
Michael Meacher: The era of oil wars
Bill Moyers: It was oil, all along (in Iraq)
Are they really oil wars?
United States – June 30
US halts solar projects over environment fears
Nevada brothels hit hard by gas prices
Oil price raises insolvency prospect for dry-cleaners
Teenagers’ cruising declines
Drop in revenue strains municipal budgets
High electricity prices possible ‘for years to come’
Legislative and policy responses to energy prices
Peak Oil Review — June 30, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Forecasts
– Shortages
– Energy Briefs
World oil reserves and future production
Ray Leonard, Vice-President-Eurasia with Kuwait Energy Company, wrote in a 2001 paper: “By 2010, [oil] production … will start to rapidly decline. This will conflict with the steadily increasing demand for oil. The collision of these two trends will lead to shortages and increased prices, providing a strong incentive to shift to alternative fuel resources…Due to unequal distribution through the world of oil and gas supply and consumption, [the upcoming] transition will result in significant shifts in global power and wealth.”
Community solutions – June 30
‘Peak oil’ theory gains local converts in Grand Rapids
Update on Michigan peak oil conference
‘The Archers’ and self-sufficient community
Transition towns taking control of their future
Moving beyond oil in Lawrence, Kansas
