Solutions & sustainability – Mar 1
Swiss doctor walks for Mother Earth
McKibben: First, step up
Swiss people power prepares to fight global warming
One nation under Elvis: An environmentalism for us all
Staff
Peak oil – Mar 1
Petroleum engineer on peak oil
Congressman Bartlett peak oil speech (transcript, slides, video)
Intro to satellite sleuthing: Finding Haradh III
Olduvai 2008 – the movie
ODAC Guest Commentary – Response to Peter Odell
Last week in the ODAC Newsletter I presented four background reasons why Professor Odell could write what he did in response to the article ‘The great fuel folly’ by Jeremy Leggett (The Guardian, February 15th and 5th 2008, respectively). The main reason was the existence of two very different data sets for how much oil the world has discovered – the oil industry’s proved and probable (‘2P’) data, and the very misleading proved reserves (‘1P’) data to which Odell has access. (See below for why 1P data can be so treacherous)…
ODAC Newsletter – Feb 29
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Eugene, Oregon: Community and personal collapse preparation
A relocalized society and economy is a pragmatic way to prepare for, to survive from, or to rebuild after whatever comes down — to counteract the rising price of energy and to help diminish carbon emissions. (In-depth interview with writer and activist Dan Armstrong, part 2)
Food security: Moving towards the precipice?
“The bottom line is that China and the world are accelerating in the fog toward a precipice.” (Interview of ecologist Paul Ehrlich.)
Food & agriculture – Feb 29
The day China runs dry (Lester Brown interview)
FAO expects global fertilizer supply to outstrip demand
The world’s growing food-price crisis
Oil producers – Feb 29
Russian giant looms over Europe (Gazprom)
Brazil: An energized giant
Ghana: Crude oil – blessing or curse?
US sees Iran nuclear dispute going to 2009 (dwindling expectation of US airstrike)
Falling production – Feb 29
S. Arabia LPG exports may start falling in 2010
Mexico’s Pemex posts $1.48 bln 2007 net loss
Norway state oil group Petoro’s Q4 output falls
Cuban oil production down
Peak oil – Feb 29
Rep. Bartlett delivers his 38th special order speech on peak oil (video)
Bartlett: Declining oil supply means war is ‘fairly probable’
BMW: peak oil in 2025, solution = hydrogen
Peak oil in Shell’s National Dialogue on Energy Security
In a report on its outreach program, Shell reaffirms its adherence to the “undulating plateau” view of peak oil. A Shell poll found that 2/3 of Americans believed that peak oil would come within 20 years.
United States – Feb 29
House OKs new taxes on big oil companies
Politics at the pump
Pelosi on Renewable Energy Act
Clinton’s efforts on ethanol overlap her husband’s interests
DOE not backing down on strategic reserve fill
