By Staff, Energy Bulletin
-Land grabbing and food sovereignty in West and Central Africa -Africa: Land, Water and Resource-Grabbing and Its Impact on Food Security -Antonio Trejo, Honduras rights lawyer, killed at wedding -Chinese villagers protest at slow progress over land dispute -The global need of non-violent struggle around land rights: a path for change?
By Rune Likvern, The Oil Drum
In this post I present the results from an in depth time series analysis from wells producing crude oil (and small volumes of natural gas) from the Bakken (Bakken, Sanish, Three Forks and Bakken/Three Forks Pools) formation in North Dakota. The analysis uses actual production data from the North Dakota Industrial Commission as of July 2012 from what was found to be a representative selection of wells from operating companies and areas.
By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
Today, we are discussing another kind of degrowth, intended mostly as a personal choice and most of us seem to believe that it is a good thing. It is an attitude that looks similar to the one we had about peak oil 10 years ago. But is it possible that we are making the same mistake? That is, could we be too optimistic about what degrowth can bring to us?
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including: -Oil and the global economy -The Middle East -The EU -Quote of the week -Briefs
By D. Ray Long, ASPO-USA
Every year in Washington DC, the annual Environmental Film Festival screens thought-provoking films. And at this year's festival in March 2012, one of the world premieres was the film"Switch." Switch follows Dr. Scott Tinker on a spectacular journey to explore the world of energy in a sweeping period of transition.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
It is with trepidation that independent petroleum geologist Jeffrey Brown has watched global oil exports decline since 2006. With all the controversy in the past several years over whether worldwide oil production can rise to quench the world's growing thirst for petroleum, almost no one thought to ask what was happening to the level of oil exports. And yet, each year a dwindling global pool of exports has been generating ever greater competition among importing nations and has become a largely unheralded force behind record high oil prices.
By Matt Mushalik, Crude Oil Peak
“There have been few more passionate debates in resource economics than around peak oil, whether it has or hasn’t happened and indeed whether peak oil is about resources left or production levels.”
By Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press
It has now been more than 33 years since Jimmy Carter's famous "malaise' speech given in July 1979. As this speech is often cited as the beginning of the end for the Carter Presidency, no politician in the intervening years has seen fit to offer anything but an optimistic, upbeat outlook on the course of the nation and its economy.
By Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World
The number of jobs available to job-seekers has been a problem for quite a long tine now—since 2000 in the United States, and longer than that in Europe. If we look at the percentage of the US population who are employed, it is now back to 1984 or 1985 levels. I have run into a number of clues about what is happening. In this post, I’d like to discuss what I am seeing.
By Staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
Energy news was dominated this week by the growing controversy over shale gas in Europe and the UK...
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including: -Developments this week
By Deborah Lawrence, Energy Policy Forum
Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new rule for oil and gas, companies have been allowed much greater freedom to book reserves. On the surface, there is a good argument to be made for expanding the definition of allowable booked reserves. But in practice, this may have opened the door to false valuations of shale assets.