Geopolitics – September 9
Russia: Folly of the progressive fairytale
How the West is losing the energy cold war
Shut up, Borat – the tinderbox of Kazakhstan oil
Fossil Fuels
Peak Oil & Supplies – September 8
Oil crisis hiding in plain sight; pump prices and crude still way ahead of year ago levels
Charlie Maxwell to Barron’s: $300 oil is inevitable
An urban legend to comfort America: demand for oil creates new supply
Soros: The perilous price of oil
Fossil fuels – September 8
Dirty little secret
Kingsnorth trial: Goldsmith defends climate change activists
Nasa scientist appears in court to fan the flames of coal power station row
Solutions & sustainability – September 8
Love, Schmove – Just tell me how to build community with the guy who mows his lawn in his speedo!
Oil prices, technology, and the cost of ignorance
Meet the greenshifters
It never hurts to be prepared for Armageddon: Be to go-to gal
Is it better to lease, hire or borrow than to buy?
Climate & environment – September 8
Warming oceans make strongest storms stronger: study
Wind of change on farms as cows help to save the Earth
UN says eat less meat to curb global warming
Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’
Mining Oil From WWII shipwrecks
Peak Oil Review – September 8
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– Iraq
– Russia and the West
– Briefs
United Kingdom – September 8
Brown vows freedom from oil dictatorship
How food waste can power your home
When the wind doesn’t blow
Environment Minister Sammy Wilson: climate change views are “hysterical psuedo-religion”
United States – Sept 6
Governor Palin – How Big Oil went from friend to foe in Alaska
Roscoe Bartlett: Drilling for clean energy
Winona LaDuke on climate and energy
Riding the wind with T. Boone
The energy secret – understanding what drives the 21st century and why peak oil really matters
There are at least two invisible things that tend to be ferociously difficult to understand. One is relations among humans and the other is energy. Especially when the former want more of the latter. And for some reason, understandable perhaps but also unfortunate, we are mostly loathe to try to comprehend where our energy comes from. [Excepts]
Peak oil & supplies – Sept 5
Peak oil and the media
Can US natural gas production be ramped up?
Regulators probing oil supply data: report
Fighting on empty (Australian Defence Force)
Peak Textiles – Sept 5
The new black (oil influences fashion)
Cheap clothes, clean conscience
Power cuts hits textile industry
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 5
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
