ODAC Newsletter – July 31
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
Coal
An interview with Ray Leonard
Ray Leonard was selected last week to serve as CEO of Hyperdynamics Corp., a Houston-based and AMEX-listed oil and gas company with exploration assets in West Africa…A number of international organizations and elite audiences in Washington D.C. have heard his talks and have taken them seriously. Steve Andrews reached him last week and popped several quick questions.
Coal – July 21
Nationalise coal— to fund a just transition away from it (interview)
How to end America’s deadly coal addiction
Clean Coal: Competitive Someday, Just Not Today
A Transition Take on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan
After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there as a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled on Wednesday…
UK Government carbon transition plan – July 16
UK announces long-term carbon reduction strategy
Climate change: Green dreams
Energy bill rises to tackle climate change are tiny
United States – July 8
In Mother Russia, She’s 1st Lady of Gardening
Why Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Speech Is More Relevant than Ever
The Film Big Coal Does Not Want You to See
Peak oil & prices & supplies – July 6
Another perspective on peak oil: Oil patch merger specialist Adam Waterous
Book Review: Blackout by Richard Heinberg
Peak oil v home-made jam
Flashing Lights on the Console: Albert Bates and Heinberg podcast
Nuclear power: problem or solution? – July 1
Nuclear power is well-disguised fossil fuel
Nuclear power must be part of energy solution
UK regulator raises French nuclear concerns
Nations & resources – June 30
Iraq: Warily Moving Ahead on Oil Contracts
The Dirty War Against Clean Coal
A Flower Grows in West Africa
United States – June 27
Time Wastes Too Fast (a wonderful link)
Bartlett votes against cap-and-trade
Monbiot: Why do we allow the US to act like a failed state on climate change?
Recession brings ‘Las Vegas dream’ to an end
Hansen of NASA Arrested in Coal Country
ODAC Newsletter – June 19
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
