Biomass potential in Europe
WWF-UK press release announcing publication of report examining potential for biomass to generate energy.
WWF Press Release
Report: Regional Footprint 33 Times Too Large for Sustainability
OAKLAND, Calif.– A new analysis of the Bay Area’s ecological impact by Redefining Progress, done in conjunction with the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, shows that the Bay Area relies on the equivalent of more than 146 million acres to sustain itself. This area is nearly the size of the states of California and Oregon combined.
The View from Hubbert’s Peak
The only certain beneficiaries of this coming economic chaos will be the big five oil corporations and their corrupt partners: the Nigerian generals, Saudi princes, Russian kleptocrats, and their ilk. Crude oil truly will become black gold.
We are finally running out of cheap gas — good
As gas prices loft into the stratosphere, likely never to come down, we can expect to hear much doomsaying about how this will end the world as we know it. Let’s hope so.
America’s Black Budget & Manipulation Of Markets
Jim Puplava of Financial Sense interviews Catherine Austin Fitts, whose website is Solari.com. “The scenarios that people discuss about peak oil are absolutely possible.”
Iraq War Colonial and About Oil, Says Turki
The US-led invasion of Iraq was a colonial war and there were some in the United States who saw it as a means of getting their hands on Iraqi oil, Prince Turki Al-Faisal was quoted as saying yesterday.
Oil traders vs. the Saudis
If the Saudis plan to unilaterally boost their supply of crude oil, regardless of what the OPEC cartel decides to do — a promise the Saudi Arabian oil minister made last week — then why have crude prices continued to climb?
Conoco refuses Saudi offer of extra oil -trader
U.S. oil refiner ConocoPhillips turned down an offer to take extra oil from top OPEC exporter Saudi Arabia because the oil was too heavy a grade, a trader at the company said on Tuesday.
Shell cuts oil reserves for 4th time
LONDON — The Royal Dutch/Shell Group downgraded the size of its proven oil and gas reserves yesterday for the fourth time this year as the oil giant continued to stumble over a scandal that shocked the markets and forced the resignation of three top executives.
Why Gas Should Cost More
North Americans complain about fuel costs. But to avoid a possibly unprecedented human crisis in coming decades, they should be urging their governments to allow the price of oil and natural gas to rise even more.
Lovelock: ‘Only nuclear power can now halt global warming’
Global warming is now advancing so swiftly that only a massive expansion of nuclear power as the world’s main energy source can prevent it overwhelming civilisation, the scientist and celebrated Green guru, James Lovelock, says.
Crude Oil Rises on Concern More Saudi Output Won’t Meet Demand
Crude oil futures rose on concern that a promised Saudi Arabian production rise and any Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries quota increase at a meeting next week won’t meet rising demand.
