United Kingdom – Sept 10
Conservatives have opportunity to introduce a green agenda
Turn off the TV and join the Tory green revolution
Kunstler gets a letter from an employee in the British oil industry
New nuclear row as green groups pull out
Energy Policy
Climate policy – Sept 10
APEC conference ends with meaningless spin about aspiring to “do something”
Ex-heads of state tell current heads of state how to solve climate crisis
Bin Laden on global warming
NRDC’s Dan Lashof compares cap-and-trade, carbon tax
NGOs unite on Earth’s greatest crisis
Kings of the coal habit
United States – Sept 5
What is John Dingell really up to? (carbon tax)
Richardson calls for transportation alternatives
America’s car culture clashes with climate change
Lawmakers ready to revisit energy bills
Reporters preview House-Senate energy conference, upcoming climate talks
The dangers of certitude
If forecasts are often futile and shouted warnings often go unheeded, what’s a peak oil concernist to do? Maybe the Yampa River offers us a lesson. Today, river runners always scout Warm Springs Rapid before running it. When they hear the roar of cascade, they row to shore, tie-up, then walk along the bank, examining their options, making plans, and discussing contingencies.
Energy industry – Sept 3
French merger creates one of world’s biggest energy companies
China plans expansion of oil refineries
Energy companies scramble to hire engineers
A letter to President Bush regarding “The Surgeâ€
Dear President Bush,
Now is the time to shift the decision for our dilemma in Iraq to the American people. Allow the American people to choose between 1) a military draft which would be required for a real “Surge to Victory” or 2) a “War on Oil Addiction.”
Climate policy – Aug 31
Germany advances India’s call for ‘Contraction & Convergence’
Greenpeace blocks Lake Erie coal freighter
China says one-child policy helps protect climate
Energy policy – Aug 31
Lib Dems see zero-carbon Britain setting the global green agenda
Albania in throes of energy shortage
Ecuador: $350m to leave oil in the ground
Updating the book on global warming
What I thought were rather bold and revolutionary proposals in my book Heat don’t go nearly far enough. We need to start thinking on a different scale altogether. (Speech at the recent Camp for Climate Change)
United States – Aug 30
Biden on energy and the environment
Heat stressing California’s grid
‘Immigrant paradox’: Come to the U.S., die younger
Porter ties withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gas
Monetary policy and weaseling out of debt
After oil supplies dry up, what’s Plan B?
If you think the government’s response to Katrina was inept, brace yourself for peak oil.
Tar sands – Aug 25
Tar sands: The oil junkie’s last fix
Factoring sustainability into Alberta’s tar sands project
