ODAC Newsletter – Mar 14
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Staff
Oil prices & supplies – Mar 17
Cheney: high oil price reflects market reality
They see bubbles everywhere now
Shell CEO: no problem with oil supplies
Weak dollar fuels energy price rise
Record oil divorced from fundamentals-OPEC delegate
Peak oil camp – Mar 17
How shipping containers shortened the lifespan of petro-civilization
Is peak oil theory only for fascists?
“Energy Descent Pathways” now online
Simmons: Key investment questions For 2008+
Sydney must prepare now for peak oil
Sharon Astyk: Dinner, and whether you’ll be getting any, to 2050
Kunstleriana
Climate – March 17
Coffee, confection and the trillion dollar climate connection
Climate change vs the rich
BC hockey player goes green
Athletes jump on green bandwagon
Project Bud Burst (citizen scientists)
Shortages – Mar 17
Energy, water demands are on collision course
Concerns over Kenya’s food security
Shortages of energy, food worry Pakistanis
Residents stung by high cost of utilities
NYT: Costs surge for stocking the pantry
Taking steps – Mar 17
Clotheslines rule
Industry scrambles to find a ‘greener’ concrete
Open 28 hours
Sanitation goals slip; nature can help
Oil producers – Mar 17
Gulf currencies may drop dollar peg
UAE: Gas shortage to double cost of electricity
Venezuela wants euros for some fuel exports
Mexico leftist seizes oil reform to drive comeback
Stalking the Arctic
US & state oil companies – Mar 17
State Inc.
Energy Diplomat: most oil in state-run hands
Schlesinger: Geopolitics of US energy future
U.S., Iraq, oil – Mar 17
A crude case for war?
Iraq’s insurgency runs on stolen oil profits
Cheney to Mideast with ‘rich agenda’ on oil, peace
Deep thought – Mar 17
David Suzuki: Blind date with disaster
The end of The Fire Age (Libertarians and Prometheus)
Can we be zero carbon?
James Cascio interview – the future is now
Food & agriculture – Mar 17
Warning of world phosphate shortage
Heinberg’s garden
Edible landscape likely to become a U.S. paradigm
Climate & U.S. – Mar 17
Administration buries report on climate impacts on Gulf transport; muzzles scientists
Scholar: US should help China reduce emissions
US told to go green on carbon emissions or lose EU flights
