Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Marianne Lavelle Those knowledgeable about Iraq say the country is now flaring 600 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. It’s wasting fuel and releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually.
New comprehensive ODAC newsletter
Hess chief: action needed to avoid oil crisis
Crunch time for Mexican oil
Bartlett attacks U.S. energy research budget as “business as usual”
The Oil Drum: World oil forecasts
No one has all the answers to the problems of energy, climate and the economy, but there is one answer that everyone with any sense embraces as a necessary first step toward a permanent solution: we must create green jobs in the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. However our prospects for a green jobs program in 2008 do not look good.
Infrastructure for the future we want
Peak oil movement in Israel
Sustainability implications of peak population?
Replacing ourselves
Hierarchy must grow, and is therefore unsustainable
The Oil Drum: Peak oil, IHS data and the broken clock
IHS: Facts bury theory on peak oil
Tom Whipple on electric cars – can we power them?
PO models forecast China’s oil supply, demand
East-West Center: PO likely in 10-15 years
Heat or eat – an expanding crisis
The growing battle for the right to water
UN says soaring prices leave poor hungry
Cooking gas crisis hitting India’s poor hard
OPEC finance chiefs to discuss $ oil pricing
The door to Iraq’s oil opens
Iranians scheme to elude sanctions
Energy policy is foreign policy
The long-delayed Iranian Oil Bourse (IOB) will start operations on Sunday, the official Iranian news agency IRNA said, citing the country’s oil minister. (Articles in the press)
A US Department of Defense energy strategy mentions peak oil, but doesn’t go into details.
Human impact on oceans mapped for first time
Climate change: picture gallery
Venture to use sea to fight warming runs out of cash (Planktos)
Swimmers’ sunscreen killing off coral
California Senator Dianne Feinstein sent a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman inquiring about the Department of Energy’s activities concerning peak oil. The letter references the recent GAO report on peak oil.
A member of the South Australian Legislative Council made an excellent speech on peak oil on Wednesday and called for the establishment of a select committee “to inquire into and report on the impact of peak oil in South Australia.”
