Peak oil notes – Oct 14
A mid-week roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
-The deep-water drilling ban
A mid-week roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
-The deep-water drilling ban
For peak oil devotees, When Oil Peaked is a special treat, an eminently welcome update from a heavyweight within the field. For those who are new to peak oil or who just want a general overview, however, it’s a little more of a mixed bag. The sections on logistic versus Gaussian curves and other technical matters get awfully involved and esoteric, and casual readers may lack the fortitude to wade all the way through them. But the less involved parts on solutions, recommendations for policymakers and steps that each of us can take will hold the rapt attention of serious and casual readers alike.
The co-author of the famous Hirsch report gives an exclusive interview to a French journalist.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Macondo well
-Briefs
-NYT: German Military Braces for Scarcity After ‘Peak Oil’
-Defense Energy Resilience: Lessons from Ecology
-Deepwater Horizon Oil Remains Below Surface, Will Come Ashore in Pulses, Expert Says
There’s a palpable sense of expectation as we cruise down the canal. Two dozen people and barely a word passes between us. It’s not the roar of the triple outboard engines, nor the forced camaraderie of strangers thrust together, with only their environmentalisms in common. Rather, it’s the sense that we’re travelling towards something—not a place, but a phenomenon, an event—whose name we know but whose face we have not yet seen.
-BP oil spill disaster report paves way for bitter legal battle
-BP Spill Report Hints at Legal Defense
-BP oil spill report: the Deepwater Horizon blame game
-Toxic dispersants in Gulf oil spill creating hidden marine crisis
-Gulf Doctors Advised to Learn to Treat Oil-Related Illnesses
-Oxygen drops near BP spill but no “dead zone”-US
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-The BP report
In this seven part KrisCan interview with energy analyst Chris Nelder, they cover topics ranging from the consequences of the moratorium from the Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico to the legitimacy of Cap and Trade; how U.S. offshore oil drilling will affect domestic oil supply in the coming decade and how policy in America curtails the incentivizing of an energy transition to more renewable sources.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-Food
-The moratorium
-The Bundeswehr on peak oil
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-China – the costs of growth
-Macondo – the blame game