Peak oil – Jan 30
Indonesia urged to promote low-carbon economy
Rep. Bartlett responds to Bush’s SOTU
The end of oil is just a game
Biggs’s tips for rich (a little ‘peak oil’ in his morning coffee?)
Fossil Fuels
Canada and U.S. – Jan 30
Heavy footprint weighs down U.S. empire
Why Cape Breton shakes in the echo of this distant boom (tarsands)
The energy efficiency option
ODAC Guest Commentary – Understanding the energy crisis in South Africa
How did South Africa come to this? Whereas we once had a huge surplus of generating capacity, now the entire country faces regular blackouts, and some of our key economic sectors are under threat. Mines have been forced to shut down as their electricity supplies cannot be guaranteed, while energy hungry aluminum smelters continue to operate so that we can have our beer dispensed in cans.
Energy supplies – Jan 29
The kinder, gentler energy superpower: Canada
The oil majors in Africa: Trickier times ahead for big fish
Supergrid could provide 30% of Europe’s electricity
Norwegian gas will go to highest bidder
Peak oil – Jan 29
TOD blockbuster: “Powering civilization to 2050” by Stuart Staniford
Will peak oil drive relocalization?
Investment guru Jim Rogers: $90 to $100 oil not high enough to slow demand
Barclays Capital: Triple digit oil price regardless of peak
Science 1101 – Petroleum and peak oil
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
Peak oil – Jan 28
Peak oil activist in the Wall Street Journal
Shell: Fuel crisis looms by 2015
US petroleum supply, ethanol, and state of the industry
Peak Oil Review – January 28th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Trouble in China
– Shell
– Prospects for Iraqi Production
– Energy Briefs
The WSJ article on a CERA oil decline study
Critique of CERA’s study by the author of the “Hirsch report” on peak oil.
Shell executive on peak oil, oil prospects
Excerpts from a long interview with Shell’s Jeroen van der Veer.
Geopolitics – Jan 25
High oil prices prompt a scramble for Africa
An oil-powered Russia
Elites love to pig out on energy
Peak oil – Jan 25
Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
The Gospel According to Matthew [Simmons]
Hagens, Savinar interview
PO talk in Minnesota
PO activist in Saturdays’s WSJ
