Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The IEA has given us the tools to analyze and draw our own conclusions. Knowing the driving forces behind this report, this is only the beginning of their valuable work. On the shoulders of their report it is up to others, like us, to shout: “Fire in the theater!”
Environmentalists win big EPA ruling on coal emissions
Does natural-gas drilling endanger water supplies?
Limited feasibility of Carbon Capture and Storage systems will mean more nuclear electric power
From the perspective of biophysical economics
Comments from new German peak oil site
From Sri Lanka: Peak oil’s bell is ringing
Andrew McKillop: Global energy transition plan
Few people can have a better knowledge of Iraq’s oil than Dr. Issam A. R. al-Chalabi. Kjell Aleklett reports on a detailed discussion with the man who has been chairman for SCOP, the State Company for Oil Projects, the chairman of INOC, the Iraq National Oil Company, as well as Iraq’s vice-oil minister and oil minister.
Robert Hirsch tells peak oilers to (temporarily) pipe down
‘Peak oil’ adherents grow in number and influence
Life after (peak) oil in North Carolina
‘Energy Beyond Oil’ presentation now on-line
Peak oil is subject of short story contest winner
The IEA is getting rattled by events. For some years, the IEA, EIA and OPEC all maintained the view that oil resources are so large that they must be sufficient to maintain supply. Other leaders in government and industry uncritically accepted that position, and stopped worrying. But the IEA has now broken ranks, to accept that there is a looming problem of supply, even from the large remaining resource. Current trends in energy supply and consumption, in their own words, are patently unsustainable, as ODAC has maintained for some years.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Analyses by Chris Nelder, Rembrandt (TOD), Joseph Romm and Arab News.
Coverage by WSJ, BNN, CNN, Sydney Morning Herald, EurActiv.
U.S. 2008 oil demand to drop most since 1980: EIA
Dirty coal to remain world’s top power source: IEA
Study Points to Major Source of Natural Gas in Alaska
A closer look at Obama’s energy plan
U.S. military worries about climate change
A Freeze on New U.S. Coal Plants?
EU unveils plan to weaken Russian grip on gas supply
EU Considers Energy Options as Winter Looms
Fossil fuels central to EU’s long-term energy security vision
The Global Response to a Terror-Generated Energy Crisis
The SWISH Report (advice to al-Qaida about Obama’s presidency)
Russia to deploy missiles on EU border
