Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Interview at ASPO with James Schlesinger: “We are all peakists now”
An unlikely Paul Revere (Lee Raymond of Exxon)
Feb. Hirsch report on recent PO forecasts
Peak energy discussion panel
Peak oil on Hong Kong radio
Stanford prof:
The truth about reservoirs, drilling and cheap oil
Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary The 11th Hour is a valuable film and everyone who can get to a theater should go and see it. A more personal treatment of the same ground can be found in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
China’s coal prices may increase on environmental, safety costs
Rep. Bartlett questions Coal-to-Liquid at hearing
Flash: New technology for carbon sequestration discovered!
King Coal resumes its crown
King coal constrained
As the crisis deepens, those focused on spreading the word (whether in a “confrontational” manner or not) and those focused on inclusiveness and the implementation of responses will find that they need each other as much as the world needs to hear and see what both groups have to offer.
We’re racing towards a wall, and not only are we not slowing down, we’re gunning the motor by doing things like expanding ethanol production and sending the next generation’s hope against malnutrition down the river, and letting the terms of the political discussion be shaped by whether or not to tighten fuel efficiency, rather than how fast we can get the cars off the road.
Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
U.S. court backs states’ measures to cut emissions
Hopes dim for measures to conserve energy
Energy independence is a myth
Bartlett: We need political pioneers, not the glacier flag-planting types
Blueprint for a green economy
Alex Steffen: A ‘groundbreaking, worldchanging political work’
A quality report
Green groups attack Labour, Tories and Lib Dems on environment
On Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th of September, Cork, Ireland hosts the sixth annual international conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).
ASPO-USA’s 3rd annual World Oil Conference will take place in Houston, Texas, on October 17-20, and consists of four days of high-level energy discussions on the peak and decline of global oil production.
Oil’s golden years stifled innovation in Norway
IEA sounds ‘wake-up call’ on energy savings
Shetland and Faroe Islands prepare for post oil
UK change in political climate
Zimbabwe: People scavenge while fatcats get fatter
Nature, terror and oil top US fear list
A framework is needed for planning the mitigation of oil shortages created by world oil production reaching a maximum and going into decline. Some argue that normal market evolution will be adequate to avoid shortages. We assume that will not be the case.
Exxon’s Tillerson says `nationality of energy’ is irrelevant
In France, energy control becomes patriotic
US pays the price of relying on foes for oil
In the name of oil
Gazprom pushes Exxon to drop China export plans
Iraq oil: The vultures are waiting
