Oil producers – Apr 1
Libya to redefine contracts with oil companies
The battle of Basra and its oil dimension
Abu Dhabi may face blackouts
Consumption & Demand
The peak oil crisis: Load shedding
Energy shortages are now so frequent across the world there is a new web site devoted to keeping track of them all. There are currently 96 different places in the world that have reported some form of energy shortages in recent months.
Shortages – Mar 17
Energy, water demands are on collision course
Concerns over Kenya’s food security
Shortages of energy, food worry Pakistanis
Residents stung by high cost of utilities
NYT: Costs surge for stocking the pantry
Do we have too much energy?
Our biggest challenge is not related to getting enough energy. Our biggest challenge is to understand our relationship with energy and to recast it so that we may live more harmoniously with the world around us.
Geopolitical – Mar 12
Courage to cut Iran’s petrol subsidies?
Impact of climate change on six regions
Khartoum’s boom (Sudan oil)
Waste & dysfunction – Mar 8
Greed in the name of green- eco-consumerism
Cradle to cradle design
What if the MSM simply can’t cover humanity’s self-destruction?
Paper or plastic?
Review: World Made by Hand by James Kunstler
The novel presents a fictional world that is at once idyllic and post-apocalyptic, reassuring and frightening.
Soothsayers in suits
ASPO-USA highlights the risks in CERA’s production forecast and also the possible consequences (which could be severe) if it’s wrong. Virtually every major organization public and private bases its planning on such optimistic projections.
Review of Dmitry Orlov’s Re-inventing Collapse
The book opens with a “recipe” for collapse soup and notes that the United States has combined all of the ingredients. While Re-Inventing Collapse isn’t a fluffy, feel-good novel, it is tempered with delicious outbursts of Dmitry’s mischievous humor.
BC takes lead in climate fight
Everybody talks about global warming, but the government of British Columbia is the first jurisdiction in Canada to take a significant step toward doing something about it. In Tuesday’s provincial budget, Premier Gordon Campbell’s Liberal government introduced the first full-fledged carbon tax in North America, thereby putting a real price on the greenhouse gas emissions that come from burning fossil fuels. (Collection of headlines)
Dysfunction – Feb 20
Greening China – with green paint
Tajikistan: energy, food crisis
Nigeria: Back to firewood
Pakistan: Fear of load-shedding on polling day
Motion for peak oil select committee in South Australia
A member of the South Australian Legislative Council made an excellent speech on peak oil on Wednesday and called for the establishment of a select committee “to inquire into and report on the impact of peak oil in South Australia.”
