Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Infrastructure Spending, Peak Oil and the Green New Deal
Strahan: Why is the oil price plunging?
EU energy consensus – trending in the right direction
A Gift to Planet Earth and Humanity
Robert Hirsch and Kyle Saunders (Prof Goose) talks
Dr. Birol said, “If you read the report carefully, or run a word search on it, you will see that two words occur more frequently than any others. The first word is “oil”. The second word is “if”.” This got a rumbling chuckle from the audience. But no one publicly connected the dots that in order for the IEA’s supply projections to work out, ALL of the non-trivial IFs mentioned in his talk must materialize.
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– OPEC and Russia are hurting
– Investment continues to fall
– Detroit in the balance
– Briefs
IEA WEO 2008 – Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) to the rescue?
IEA WEO 2008: Long term prospects for coal production
Interview of Richard Heinberg by Dr. Helen Caldicott
Aleklett on Mercedes – Chrysler and peak oil
Peak oil still relevant? More than ever.
There is a growing consensus among those who follow such things, that the new high of world oil production (87.9 million barrels a day) reached last July is likely to go down in history as the all-time peak.
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Energy Department, change is coming
Obama quietly drops windfall tax proposal
A sad day for Canada
Our continued national dependence on fossil fuels is creating a crippling vulnerability to both long-term fuel scarcity and catastrophic climate change.
The current economic crisis requires substantial national policy shifts and enormous new government injections of capital into the economy. This provides an opportunity for a project whose scope would otherwise be inconceivable: a large-scale, coordinated energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.
David Strahan on the IEA report
The 2008 IEA WEO – Renewable Energy
Cheap oil: short-term good, long-term dangerous
Rocky Top (Albert Bates interview)
A weekly update including:
– Prices continue to fall
– Bailing out Detroit
Charley Maxwell interview
IEA WEO 2008 – Fossil fuel ultimates and CO2 emissions scenarios
World oil forecasts using Wikipedia megaprojects, Dec 2008
Court of Appeals judge: The bell tolls for hydrocarbons: what’s next?
The War on Carbon Heats Up Globally, but Strategies for Change Remain Local
James L. Jones’ energy views worry some environmentalists
Youth Embarrassed By U.S. Delegation at Climate Conference
