Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Oil price leaps to year’s high
BP’s Tony Hayward warns of dwindling demand for oil
Are we running out of oil? The world in energy statistics
Lufthansa lashes out at speculators
Aleklett: Highly vulnerable to oil shortages
Imported minerals, metals fuel U.S. shift to homegrown power
Goodbye fossil fuel dependence, hello rare earth dependence!
U.S. foresees a thinner cushion of coal
Have we reached peak coal?
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Gas prices
Rock, meet hard place. Hard place, meet rock. Rock, over here is known as “the economy.” Hard place, on the other side, can be described as “our energy situation.” Because while green shoots might look awfully good to a lot of people who are desperate to have the economy go back to what it was, we should remind ourselves that “what it was” involved awfully high energy prices.
Speaking at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC on 8 June, CERA Global Oil Group Managing Director Jim Burkhard began and ended his talk by stating that “CERA acknowledges that peak oil is here, you heard it from a CERA person.”
Canada export agency sees $70 oil as unsustainable
$70 oil menaces budding recovery
Proposition: global effort to model largest oil fields
Choosing Iran’s Next Leader
Europe’s pipeline politics
Energy fuels new ‘Great Game’ in Europe
U.S. trains take longer now than 30-60 years ago
Oil’s Ascent To Ground Airlines Again
Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains
Climate change theatre
Calling Earth from the Air: world release of green movie ‘Home’
It’s the end of the world as we know it (annotated)
Your Chance to See ‘In Transition’, the emerging plans for its release, as well as an appeal for help in finishing it…
Lagging Recognition
Industry Defends Drilling, Ignores Water Contamination
Upping the Ante
The CEO Poll: On black gold
Shell’s Willem Schulte says we have enough oil, for now
High oil prices and the end of globalization really?
An Alternative National Energy Security Assessment for Australia
European communist parties on energy
German regions selected for electric mobility pilots
Economy Shows Cracks in European Union
Alistair Darling says Labour to blame for BNP poll success
