United States – Feb 8
Amish help neighbors left without electricity
Obama orders new rules to raise energy efficiency
Why shovel-ready infrastructure is wrong
Fight against Big Coal hits Kansas legislature – national repercussions
Coal
UK & Europe – Jan 29
Russian oil production reaches its peak
EU spending spree brings carbon capture closer to reality
UK gets biofuels research centre
Britain’s energy industry is nosediving into a dark, uncertain future
The Great Squeeze (review)
This Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project is the latest film from Colorado-based Tiroir a Films. This sequel to their 2006 offering, Energy Crossroads: The Burning Need to Change Course, looks to dig deeper into how the concurrent processes of resource depletion, climate change, ecosystem destruction and our consumption-oriented economic model are threatening to destroy both our planet and possibly our very civilization. I would say in large part that it succeeds.
Fossil fuels – Jan 28
Another Confirmation of Oil Depletion
Over the Cliff for Natural Gas in North America?
Coal in South Asia
A prince and four peaks: peak oil, gas, coal and uranium
Today the second three-day world future energy summit began in Abu Dhabi. One of the biggest energy conference in the world that is being attended by key policy makers, financiers, leading academics and no less than 400 journalists from all over the world. The conference was opened by the Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and the Netherlands…
Oil & coal – Jan 17
Oil demand set for 2-year drop on recession, IEA says
Rigzone: Why we’ll see $200 oil soon
Chávez lets West make oil bids as prices plunge
The ten most coal-reliant countries
United States – Jan 15
Dems unveil $825B in spending increases, tax cuts
Advice to Obama: Yes we can, but will we?
Energy nominee Chu: Coal, nuclear an ‘important part’ of power mix
Shaky economy means ‘bye-bye baby’ for some
Peak Oil & Coal – Jan 8
2009: Predictions for Australia
Are we approaching peak coal?
ASPO’s Aleklett: The year that passed and the year ahead
Deep thought – Dec 29
Sharon Astyk: The pleasures of the obsolete
The ugly truth behind the markets: Not even the experts have a clue (Homer-Dixon)
Worldwatch: ‘On the verge of an energy revolution’
A road to revolution? (Greek demonstrations)
Energy industry – Dec 26
Groups soliciting funds to buy BLM leases (student disrupts auction)
Coal front group sets up dirty ‘blogger brigade’
Korea oil bunker
Coal – Dec 21
Coal poses climate catastrophe as “peak oil” approaches
Coal reserve estimates way too high, says expert
E.P.A. ruling could speed up approval of coal plants
Will ‘peak oil’ spur expanded coal use? And what does it mean for climate?
Prices & supplies – Dec 18
World Coal Reserves Could Be a Fraction of Previous Estimates
Oil prices ready to recover after $100 fall
Nigeria: Country to Supply 25 Percent of U.S. Oil By 2015
Opec agrees deep cut in oil production
