World first: U.S. city fights climate change and global oil depletion together
Spokane Mayor Mary Verner announced a new strategic planning effort to identify and address the impacts of climate change and energy security,
Fossil Fuels
CERA conference – Feb 13
Global warming gets less debate than future of oil
Investors: Don’t blame us for high oil prices
Oil execs: Crisis coming, but not because of scarcity
Conference covers climate, housing woes
Peak oil – Feb 13
Simmons v. Saudis, round two
Bartlett interviewed by Warren Brown, DC auto columnist
Simmons speaks to Minnesota House of Representatives
Green ink: all the coal in China (WSJ)
United States – Feb 13
Energy excerpts from Annual Threat Assessment (Director of National Intelligence)
White House Council of Economic Advisors on peak oil
Tugs tend LNG tanker as repairs made off Cape Cod
Natural gas touted
Bush’s science adviser on climate, energy security
Coal – Feb 13
China spurs coal-price surge
What to do with all this coal?
SA coal mining plans put fresh water at risk
Mine expansion in middle of fight; natural streams buried
Energy industries – Feb 13
Greenhouse pollution from Midwest refineries may soar 40%
Drilling rush in Rockies raises health, safety concerns
Shell VP, exploration: ‘No more easy oil’
Southeast Asia’s looming nuclear power industry
Oil producers – Feb 12
Bolivia’s irresistible reserves
Clouds on Kurdistan’s horizon
Omani company’s output to decline for eighth year
Peak oil and The Limits to Growth: two parallel stories
Marion King Hubbert and Jay Wright Forrester, working independently, set the basis for a new science. They were not the first to study the limits of the world’s resources. But they were the first to do that using mathematical models that could be extrapolated into the future.
Venezuela and Exxon – Feb 12
Venezuela threatens to cut US oil
Venezuela moves bank accounts after Exxon embargo
Daniel Ortega brands Exxon’s move as a US attack
Chavez’s big oil bluff
Oilsands can’t fill gap if Venezuela cuts oil
Peak oil – Feb 12
Monbiot: Even capitalists now admit the oil crisis is real
Cantarell update & production projection
Peak oil on ABC-Australia’s Counterpoint
ASPO-USA looking for executive director
What megabubble will bring us down?
When does peak oil arrive?
Will candidates debate PO?
Some Q&A about that $100,000 CERA bet
“Betting on depletion is like betting on rust. Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 [now $100,000] that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.”
Peak Oil Review – February 11th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Peak Oil and Food
– South Africa’s Power Shortage
– Nigeria
– Energy Briefs
