ODAC Guest Commentary – BP Marathon oil find
BP chief executive Tony Hayward stressed the company’s commitment to the North Sea during its results press conference this week, saying it would continue to produce there “until we put the lights out”.
David Strahan
Resources undervalued, biofuels overrated
What you may have suspected for years is true: Natural resources are consistently undervalued (Report from a recent conference of systems ecologists on emergy research)
Deep thought – Feb 7
Hooked on growth: our misguided quest for prosperity
Rolf Nordstrom discusses depletion scenarios
Feeding people
The big picture: climate chaos (Jamais Cascio)
The organic apocalypse
Transport & urban design – Feb 7
What communities need to do to survive climate change
Managing traffic in the urban age
Time running out to fix Australia’s transport
Walkable cities
Food & agriculture – Feb 7
Fermentation and food: The revolution will not be microwaved
Farming the Amazon with a machete and mulch
Homogeneous horror in agriculture
Bob Waldrop on local food systems
The birth of a farmers’ market
Climate policy – Feb 7
Big oil stokes the fires for the planet to burn
Cap and trade and fairness for working families
Report attacks Australia’s climate policy
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 7
Transition, energy descent plans and relocalisation in Australia
Sermon for a carbon fast
Thou shalt not waste
Shopping for ethics
The peak oil crisis: the future of our cars – Part 3
At present it appears that biofuels, natural gas, and electricity are the only alternatives that will be available in large deliverable, quantities in the next ten or 20 years.
Proportionality
There is a strange clause in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that applies to only one country—Canada. The clause states that Canada must continue to supply the same proportion of its oil and gas resources to the US in future years as it does now. That’s rather a good deal for the US: it formalizes Canada’s status as a resource satellite of its imperial hub to the south.
Peak oil – Feb 7
WSJ: Peak-oilers put money where mouths are
BP to ‘put lights out’ on North Sea
Telegraph: Why the price of ‘peak oil’ is famine
David Strahan at World Energy Summit
Analyst Maxwell: PO means 10-year crisis
Desperately seeking energy in Lincoln, Mass.
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.
