UK Conservatives issue green blueprint – Sept 14
Blueprint for a green economy
Alex Steffen: A ‘groundbreaking, worldchanging political work’
A quality report
Green groups attack Labour, Tories and Lib Dems on environment
Staff
Peak oil – Sept 14
CNN on peak oil
Not black and white
Queensland govt warns of `peak oil’ chaos
Andrew McNamara: Wartime mentality needed
NPC report presented to Houston petroleum engineers
Peak oil and the energy supply curve
Canada TOD round-up
Declining net oil exports vs “near record high” oil inventories: What’s going on?
ODAC News
Iraq and oil – Sept 14
NY Times: Compromise on oil law in Iraq seems to be collapsing
Naomi Klein: Why failure is the new face of success
Michael Klare on the internal war for control of Iraq’s oil
Iraq: New U.S. Base – Wasit
The innovation fallacy
Many people in the peak oil movement cling to the hope that technological innovation can make up for the end of the age of cheap abundant oil. Is this hope as plausible as it seems?
Public teach-in on the triple global crisis Sept 14-16
Over 60 prominent policy leaders, activists, scientists and scholars will gather to discuss the Global Triple Crisis in Washington DC:
– Climate Change
– Peak Oil (The End of Cheap Energy)
-Global Resource Depletion (including Species Extinction)
Sixth annual ASPO conference – Cork, Ireland Sept 17-18
On Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th of September, Cork, Ireland hosts the sixth annual international conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).
ASPO-USA’s October conference: the peak of world oil production
ASPO-USA’s 3rd annual World Oil Conference will take place in Houston, Texas, on October 17-20, and consists of four days of high-level energy discussions on the peak and decline of global oil production.
Peak oil – Sept 12
Jeffrey J. Brown on The Reality Report
The end of oil, the start of tasty food (Julian Darley)
The amazing power of King Hubbert (…?)
TOD: This week in petroleum
Canada/financial energy round-up
ODAC News
Oil industry – Sept 12
OPEC to lift oil output modestly
What’s behind OPEC’s production hike?
Oil execs: Beware the new world energy order
Oil giant agrees to fight greenhouse gases
Greenhouse gas is Big Oil boon
For oil companies, the good old (bad old) days are over
Big Oil talks up carbon capture, but does little
Transport – Sept 12
As commutes begin earlier, new daily routines emerge
Fear and loathing at the airport
Gas costs spark high-speed rail Interest
Climate science – Sept 12
Mediterranean’s rich marine life under threat
FAO warns climate change could be major threat to food security
Britain’s mosquito explosion
Climate – Sept 12
Can we fight terrorism by reducing CO2 emissions?
Lawmakers favor carbon caps, trading; economists prefer a tax
Federal officials get no guidance on climate change
Economist: developing nations to suffer most
Powerful storms and global warming
