Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Can it really be true that the Canadian petroleum industry is almost in crisis with oil at $90 per barrel? Americans in particular should understand the critical economic issues now facing Canada’s petroleum industry.
Sustainable South Bronx: need for green collar jobs to reduce poverty
Government money short to help poor pay heating bills
Energy traders avoid scrutiny
Montana and Kansas take on Big Coal
US hopes for coal gasification ride on one project
Skrewbowski interview: 1200 days to peak oil
Case Western study: oil experts agree on 2010 peak oil
Chevron CTO says peak oil won’t be a disaster
Posters of peak oil future now online from Dynamic Cities
Report: ‘World at peak oil output’
Peak oil or peak emissions?
This Week in Petroleum
A keen observer of the American scene pointed out that most literate Americans are aware that we have some sort of energy problem. The problem is that most have no concept as to how soon the transformation will start and how much their lives are going to change.
T. Boone Pickens: we peaked last year, globally (video)
Robert Hirsh interview (transcription)
Houston ASPO Day 2 part 2
Thoughts on Saudi and Hubber Linearization
A terrifying prospect – sooner or later
Daily As-Yet-Unnamed-Set-Of-Links from Austalia/New Zealand
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– ASPO-USA Houston Conference
– Shrinking Stockpiles
– The Kurds and the Pipelines
– Energy Briefs
About 525 people attended ASPO-USA in Houston, probably the highest total so far for any peak oil conference held to date anywhere in the world. What is the significance of the conference?
Professor Saeedi: A catastrophic loss of 3.9 trillion Dollars in Iran’s oil reservoirs
RenCap again cuts Russian oil output forecast
CFR: Non-OPEC oil production
Council on Foreign Relations: Global oil trends
Electricity prices see biggest jump in 25 years
The Economist: Roll out the $100 barrel?
Are oil prices at their highest? Hard to tell
Does canola biodiesel help or hurt climate?
Victims of the ethanol rush: Loss of the native prairie
Biofuels – great green hope or swindle?
Simmons on biofuels: Can we end our addiction to oil?
While the price of oil ratcheted up hour by hour, the ASPO-USA conference members heard from an impressive range of experts who have been leading the public conversation on the Peak Oil story – with no help from the mainstream media or the political sector.
Fight against coal plants draws diverse partners
Vancouver Sun: “we have to move carefully”
Artist Bateman: We need a carbon tax
