United States – Sept 6
Governor Palin – How Big Oil went from friend to foe in Alaska
Roscoe Bartlett: Drilling for clean energy
Winona LaDuke on climate and energy
Riding the wind with T. Boone
Energy Policy
The energy secret – understanding what drives the 21st century and why peak oil really matters
There are at least two invisible things that tend to be ferociously difficult to understand. One is relations among humans and the other is energy. Especially when the former want more of the latter. And for some reason, understandable perhaps but also unfortunate, we are mostly loathe to try to comprehend where our energy comes from. [Excepts]
United States – Sept 5
Thomas Friedman: And then there was one
The unusual challenges Palin faced in Alaska
Palin’s connection to ‘big oil’
Where climate/energy issues stand in the Democratic Party
Conventions, prominence of energy and climate
Stepping off the gas (WaPo on gas tax)
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 5
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Fossil fuels – September 4
Coal plans go up in smoke
Nasa scientist appears in court to fan the flames of coal power station row
The world spends $300 billion subsidizing fossil fuels
Heinberg on New Coal Technologies
Geopolitics – September 3
Michael Klare: Putin’s Ruthless Gambit
Iraq reaches oil agreement with China
A foreign policy that makes little sense at all
United States – September 2
Pollster Zogby: Americans ahead of their leaders?
Palin: Big Oil’s new champion
Douglas administration’s energy plan is too timid
Peak Oil Review – September 1
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices and the Gustav factor
– US Natural Gas Supply
– EU and Russia
– Briefs
What my congressman does (and does not) know about energy
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
– Mark Twain
Rep. Bartlett pursues lonely energy crusade
The Western Maryland Republican has given nearly 50 such speeches at the Capitol in the past three years, most of them variations on a theme: that a coming decline in petroleum production, coupled with growing demand for energy, will have a calamitous impact on the global economy. (Excerpts)
Climate – Aug 30
Climate fight hit by global slowdown
Power-sector emissions of China to top U.S.
EU lawmakers urge caution on bloc’s carbon curbs
Scientists report further shrinking of Arctic ice
Seeing climate change through the trees
United States – August 29
NBC, Pickens spar over foreign oil ad
US study suggests high petrol prices leading to safer roads
California moves on bill to curb sprawl and emissions
