Canada – Feb 6
When oil crisis hits, Canada fantasyland will become nightmare
Take the muzzles off scientists
Oil sands are shifting in Alberta
Canada needs Strategic Petroleum Reserves
Staff
Renewables – Feb 6
Study: Unlike the ’70s, energy lessons will last
5 myths about Earth-friendly energy
Bush budget cuts renewables, efficiency
Wind farms need techs to keep running
United States – Feb 6
Morford: The machine gun of capitalism
Bush recommends 40% cut in Amtrak budget
Kunstler: Serial bubbles?
One anthropologist’s view
Energy prices and producers – Feb 6
Why the Saudis aren’t lifting a finger to ease oil prices
Byron King: Brazil’s recent oil discovery
Energy prices, inflation and denial
Asia coal prices at record high
Peak oil – Feb 6
Minnesota state legislators discuss oil reserves drying up
Lester Brown: World oil supply may have already peaked
Gail the Actuary: The science of oil and peak oil
Biofuels – Feb 6
Solution to energy independence is at local level
Record financing for biofuels, not food
Biofuels make little environmental difference
Fertilizer – Feb 6
Fertiliser famine threats to hit harvests
Gulf to become major fertiliser producer
Nebraska Farmer: Time to be more accurate with fertilizer
Farm group backs plan for fertiliser price probe
Market spotlight: fertilizer companies
Group bets $100,000 against CERA supply forecast
A group of businessmen and energy experts who believe that global oil production will soon peak, plateau and decline has issued a $100,000 wager to Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a prominent oil forecasting think tank. Members of the challenger group also renewed an invitation to hold a public debate on the issue of peak oil with CERA.
Back up the rabbit hole
At several points in the last quarter century, due to a brief constellation of short-term factors, petroleum prices dropped to levels lower in constant dollars than ever before in history. Collective decisions made on the assumption that such prices were normal need to be revisited in a hurry as more realistic energy costs reassert themselves.
CERA’s productive capacity ruse
Why do Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) state all of their forecasts in terms of a made-up category which bears no meaningful relationship to how much actual oil is available for refining at any given time to meet world demand?
Revamped ODAC newsletter
The newsletter will be published each Friday, and aims to provide a representative selection of the peak-related stories that have appeared in the media during the previous week, along with occasional guest commentary and analysis of the most important issues.
Oil producers – Feb 5
Russian economy succumbs to the oil curse
‘Huge’ gas field found off Iran
A frail economy raises pressure on Iran’s rulers
Canada’s shifting sands
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