United States – Nov 9
Power play on House energy panel (Dingell to go?)
Science in a post-Bush world
Cheney’s day is done (Halliburton)
Energy Policy
Obama’s world – Nov 9
Rob Hopkins: Why, for today at least, I’m celebrating Obama’s victory
Lundberg on Obama administration and eco-hope: business as usual with more road building?
Sustainable food and ag folks offer their elevator pitches for Obama
ODAC Newsletter – Nov 7
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Peak oil – Nov 7
Energy group sounds dual warnings
Energy agency forecasts oil reaching $200
Peak Oil: You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide From Higher Oil Prices
United States & Canada – Nov 7
CAP’s Romm discusses possibilities for energy, enviro positions in Obama administration (video and transcript)
E&E’s Berman and Kaplun give analysis of presidential, congressional outcomes (video, maybe transcript)
Ottawa swoops in with climate-change offer
The coming IEA report
IEA’s World Energy Report 2008 – executive summary now online
WSJ: Oil supplies will tighten and prices jump, IEA warns
NYT: Agency predicts a return of triple-digit oil prices
It’s Obama!
Darley: Obama will need energy realism, not more economic alchemy
McKibben: President Obama’s big climate challenge
Obama victory signals rebirth of US environmental policy
Under Obama, dark days seen ahead for fossil fuels
One-way bet for solar, wind power
Barack Obama: the view from Iran
Michigan hosts state-focused peak oil conference
Michigan’s third peak oil conference of 2008 focuses on the specific challenges and solutions for Michigan and features 45 speakers including Richard Heinberg, Albert Bates, Michael Brownlee, Ellen Hodgeson Brown, Richard Gilbert, Stephanie Mills, Kurt Cobb, and Aaron Wissner. The event is schedule for the November 14 weekend.
Energy producers – Nov 6
The Battle for Pemex: a Mexican Oil Worker Explains Energy Reform
Myanmar’s farmers pay for China’s oil thirst
Opening Up Mexico’s Oil to Foreigners: A First Step
The Peak Oil Crisis: Memorandum for the President-Elect
The way things are shaping up, in less than three months you will be in charge of solving the direst set of crises since the ones faced by Lincoln back in 1861.
United States & Canada – Nov 5
The Next President
A Date With Scarcity
Canada an environmental slouch, study says
A proposal for transition to a sustainable economy
The following is proposed as a preliminary plan for discussion amongst all those who are willing to acknowledge the reality of our predicament, think beyond the paradigm of the current system, and rationally discuss the fundamental reforms required to avoid catastrophe.
