United States – Dec 17
Panel: Navy will need oil for decades
Hard Task for New Team on Energy and Climate
Red Flags as Washington Gears Up to Remake Energy Policy
Fossil Fuels
Methane Hydrates: What are they thinking?
What is the next energy source that will give us what oil, coal and natural gas give us today? A Great many scientists, industry leaders and governments throughout the developed world believe that will be methane. More specifically they believe it will be methane hydrates.
Energy industry – Dec 16
Brazil: Petrobras euphoria fades with oil price
Greenwashing a tar sands sacrifice zone
UK faces energy blackouts without investment in nuclear and clean coal
Peak oil – Dec 15
NPR on ‘peak oil theory’
Simmons and Hirch at Energy Roundable
Matt Simmons talk: The three energy amigos
Towns and cities should prepare for the peak oil energy crisis
Local governments face: (1) declining revenues due to declining property values and declining family incomes; (2) increasing costs for gasoline, diesel, and heating oil; (3) inflation in the costs of equipment, materials, products, services, and electric power …
Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
Peak oil gets a good play in the UK Guardian today, as George Monbiot interviews Dr. Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency (video). Other articles describe the IEA’s recent report and what it means for peak oil.
Coal – Dec 15
Washington DC coal protest planned in March
Rachel Maddow takes on ‘clean coal’ and its carolers
Coal saga burns into 2009
League of Conservation Voters’ Karpinski says ‘clean coal’ claims by industry untrue
Michigan must pull the plug on coal
Peak oil review – Dec 15
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– The December 17th OPEC meeting
– Obama’s energy team
– Automobiles
– Briefs
Peak oil, prices & supplies – Dec 13
Post Carbon Cities (peak oil for the American Planning Association)
Goldman Sachs predicts fall in oil prices to $45 a barrel
As China economy brakes, oil demand goes in reverse
Energy giants trim spending plans for 2009
Peak oil & demand – Dec 12
Leggett: At Poznan, no one is listening
IEA: Everyone Gets to Be Right
Oil Demand Down; 1st Time Since ’83
World oil demand to grow in 2009: IEA
United States – Dec 12
Energy secretary pick argues for new fuel sources
A Past President’s Advice to Obama: Act With Haste
Obama starts filling energy team
Hurdles, opportunities for ‘green’ stimulus
Browner to get the nod as Obama’s top energy and climate adviser
Christine Todd Whitman talks about greening the GOP and running the EPA
Economics – Dec 12
Stiglitz: Capitalist fools
Price Trends: Gasoline and CPI Are Twins
The attack of the Invisible Hand
