ODAC Newsletter – Oct 10
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Coal
Energy industry – Oct 8
Electric Utilities Unlikely to Spend
Coal Seam Gas Producers – The New Masters Of The Universe?
Energy’s Future in Latin America
United Kingdom & Europe – Oct 8
End use of fossil fuels in 20 years, UK warned
First council since Second World War set up to look at food security
EU climate change cuts: Poland leads revolt over Russia fears
Dirty coal power hit by Euro vote
United Kingdom & Europe- Oct 6
Marrying energy demand and supply
Back to the Dark Ages: National Grid raises the spectre of blackouts this winter
Europe faces the challenges ahead
Coal – Oct 5
Coal’s comeback
‘Clean coal’ policies absent, GAO finds
Al Gore’s call for civil disobedience to block coal plants
On the edge of the abyss
The backdrop of a financial crash on Wall Street cast a shadow over this year’s Association for the Study of Peak Oil – USA conference in Sacramento in late September. Speakers talked of an ominous parallel between the financial crisis and another graver crisis in the making – the coming rapid decline of worldwide oil production, which has stalled after reaching an all-time high more than three years ago.
Peak oil – Oct 3
Heinberg: Bursting bubbles
Matt Simmons: Oil and gas — The next meltdown?
Companies scramble for ever-scarcer resources
Personal view of ASPO-USA – day 3
The recurring myth of peak oil
Complex issues in a world of soundbites
ODAC Newsletter – Oct 3
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Delay and Fail
Last week, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, Al Gore suggested that young people should engage in civil disobedience to stop the building of new coal power plants “that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”
I sympathize with Gore’s intent. Coal is the most polluting of the fossil fuels, and if we burn more of it there is little hope of averting catastrophic climate change.
But is carbon capture and storage (CCS) a solution?
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 26
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
United States – Sept 25
States, provinces have plan to cut emissions
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants
Coal, a tough habit to kick
Coal – Sept 24
Africa’s hard black gold
Labour conference: John Hutton criticised for comments on coal fired power stations
Obama declares support for ‘clean’ coal
