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
Energy Policy
Dysfunction & bad ideas – Feb 21
Warning! Eating books could seriously damage your health
Will the Obama administration track your driving?
The Onion takes on high-tech consumerism
Nuclear – Feb 21
Monbiot: A kneejerk rejection of nuclear power is not an option
Review: Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Does America still have a nuclear industry?
Gail Tverberg: How long before uranium shortages?
Peak oil Deutschland
Peak Oil Vortrag von Paul Nellen in Tübingen
Ölpreisentwicklung von Andy Sommer (HSH Nordbank)
New German-language peak oil-aware newsletter now online
Renewable energy is major source of carbon reduction in Germany: a response to the ‘Spiegel’ article
ODAC Newsletter – 20 Feb
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Prices & supplies – Feb 20
Total sticks to oil investment strategy
Oil demand may begin to peak soon: report
Beijing lends Russia $25bn for 20 years of oil supplies
Tar sands
Oilsands scare ads tough to counter
NASA’s Hansen concerned about Canada’s oil sands
The Canadian Oil Boom: Scraping Bottom
Water & environment – Feb 20
CERA and WEF: Water Resources a Growing Challenge for Energy
Los Angeles nears water rationing
A World Without Water
Australian householders to be charged for each flush of toilet
United States & Canada – Feb 19
Greenspan backs bank nationalisation
Obama unlikely to wade into oil sands debate
Canadian protesters urge Obama to shun oil sands
Watching Republicans grieve
EnCana to sell Deep Panuke natural gas production from NS to Repsol
Geopolitics – Feb 19
Egyptian Workers Strike against Fertilizer Export to Israel
David King: Iraq was the first ‘resource war’ of the century
Russian gas imports to Korea start in April
Crude Impact and The Tyranny of Oil
Peak oil notes – Feb 19
A weekly update including:
– Prices and production
– A supply crunch?
Why I’ll get arrested to stop the burning of coal
On March 2, environmentalist Bill McKibben will join demonstrators who plan to march on a coal-fired power plant in Washington D.C. In this article for Yale Environment 360, he explains why he’s ready to go to jail to protest the continued burning of coal.
