Geopolitics – August 26
Russia’s achilles heel
Analyst warns of looming global climate wars
How Brazil’s PetroBras (PBR) could deliver Cuban Oil to U.S.
Fossil Fuels
Combler le “retard d’effondrement”
L’Union soviétique était mieux préparée à l’effondrement que les États-Unis. Translation into French of Dmitry’s classic presentation Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’. Excerpts.
China – Aug 25
Coal production and consumption in China
China warns on winter energy supply
Europe & UK – Aug 25
German churches set up energy firm to fight rising fuel prices
George Monbiot: Climate change is not anarchy’s football
UK risks climate leadership over dirty coal, say US groups
Peak oil and prices – Aug 25
Charles Hall on the International Geology Congress in Norway
Raymond James: any ‘meaningful’ oil disruptions will cause ‘significantly higher’ prices
Chris Nelder on peak oil and cleantech opportunities
Michael Klare: Past its peak
The new black: fashion fetishises oil
Peak Oil Review – Aug 25, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Electricity Supplies in Asia
– Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)
– Briefs
Harpooning the earth – drilling with Charlie
If guys like Charlie stopped working for a year, you’d have to turn a few things off, big things like, say, New York and Ohio.
United States – Aug 25
Americans think worst of 2008 oil spike over: poll
In California’s Central Valley, the ruins of the housing bust
NYT:
US and global economies slipping in unison
Oil and gas playing dumb and numbers
Russia and geopolitics – Aug 24
Russia shuts out West’s supermajors
Russia and Iran: crisis of the west, rise of the rest
Kazakhstan considers to divert oil export route from BTC to Russia
Russia values oil more than war
Gazprom falls as analysts `shocked’ by spending plan
Oil sands, mutant fish, Buffet, and the New World Order
Oil sands visit was not a shopping trip, says Buffett
Buffett, Gates, mutant fish frame oil sands debate
Mutated fish alarms delegates at northern Alberta water gathering
A New World Order?
United States – Aug 24
Barack Obama selects Biden as his running mate (Biden’s energy positions)
Energy politics proving difficult to master
‘A whole new world’: oil and Alaska
Xcel takes unusual step to shut down coal power plants
Pickens’ plan and California’s Proposition 10
Californians wary of costs of going green: survey
Note to Biden on the Russian energy weapon
Russian behavior is driven to a large extent by the personal strategies and interests of a few individuals at the very top. There is no overarching geopolitical plan, but a lot of political infighting and short term asset-grabbing strategies. That may be even more worrying in itself than purposeful strategies to use the “energy weapon”, but the motivations are different. It is true however that the global energy situation allows Russia to be a lot more assertive, or even brutal, on the international stage, and there’s little that can be done about that … [There is something that] Europe can actually do: it controls its own demand, and should focus its efforts on that.
