ODAC Newsletter – 27 Feb
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Energy Policy
United States & Canada – Feb 27
U.S. Congress Begins Talks On Energy Bill
Let the Clean Energy Revolution Begin
The Climate Change Lobby Explosion
Administration blocks more Bush-era oil shale development leases
Renewables & efficiency – Feb 27
Preparing for a Flood of Energy Efficiency Spending
Intel Says Cheap Computing Is the Answer to Cutting Energy
Solar Panel Prices to Fall by up to 40 Per Cent by Year End
Tax innovations for solar energy
United States & Canada – Feb 26
Obama focuses on green economy in speech before Congress
The Obama Code
Economic Crisis Complicates California’s Goals on Climate
Oil’s not well in Canada
A Marxist view of Obama’s prospects
United States & Canada – Feb 25
Bill Clinton on the Future of Energy
Legalizing cannabis: is the ground shifting?
U.S. Housing Starts Fell to Record Low in January
Peak oil, coal, supplies – Feb 25
Non OPEC-12 Oil Production Peaked in 2004
“A Farm for the Future”… essential viewing
Sovereign wealth eyes move into commodities, oil
Are Reserves of the Largest US Coal Field Overstated by 50%?
Energy Security First (Canada)
Cheap oil and geopolitics – Feb 23
China Changes Calculus for Petro-Rulers
China prepares to buy up foreign oil companies
China, Venezuela bolster ‘strategic fund’ for development
CERA – a peak oiler in the making?
When you read the various CERA reports in chronological order, you realize that CERA is gliding away from previous strongly held beliefs and setting the stage for joining the Peak Oil community.
United States – Feb 24
Friedman: Start Up the Risk-Takers
E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost
White House Dismisses Mileage-Based Tax
First Lady at Agriculture Department
Renewables & efficiency – Feb 24
The Dam Building Boom: Right Path to Clean Energy?
No fridge? Cool!
British Fight Climate Change With Fish and Chips
Should we pave the desert?
California’s renewable energy goals feasible
America’s future wind web?
The conservation imperative: energy limits to growth and the path to sustainability – part II
This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of “Energy Limits to Growth,” a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.
Peak Oil Review – Feb 23
A weekly roundup of Peak Oil issues – including:
– Production and Prices
– The March OPEC meeting
– Nigeria
– China goes shopping
– Briefs
