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Former UK Times Editor: Are these the last days of the Oil Age?
China booms- we pay the price
Kenneth S. Deffeyes: Sunset
Australian senator: Blood for oil
If you’re in a hole, merge. But is it too late for BP and Shell?
Chris Skrewbowski on the dramatic shortage of new LNG mega projects
China View: Why does Kuwait keep its oil reserves secret?
Kuwait and IEA show declining oil production future
Rebels say attack on Mexican pipeline is just the beginning
Mexican troops to guard energy sites
Mexico: a nation-state dissolves?
Vital ingredient is missing from oil mix (subsidized prices)
Five studies on coal supplies- there’s less than we thought
Climate scientist James Hansen on coal
US coal firm linked to Colombian death squads
“Peak oil” advocates blast U.S. industry study
ASPO-USA fall world oil conference
Review of Strahan’s Last Oil Shock
Energy news from The Oil Drum: Canada
ODAC news
In the last few days, two important reports on the prospects for world oil production were “released.” Each of them is likely to make a contribution to the debate over just when the economic troubles occasioned by the peaking of world oil production will occur. [IEA and NPC reports]
Australia serves as a microcosm of a world entering the peak oil era. Aussie oil production has peaked and Australians must face up to the stark choices these circumstances present.
Lubricating an oily path to the Middle East
The world has two energy crises but no real answers
Iran’s oil industry: a house of cards?
Canada flexes muscles in scramble for Arctic
Canada’s oil boom has legs, IEA says
Energy news round-up
U.S. looks to Canada for more oil
LNG pipeline approved for Quebec
Rising fuel prices hits Air Force hard
Costs surge for building power plants
Germany to stay nuclear in Merkel U-turn
Energy productivity- the profitable path
The International Energy Agency, the intergovernmental energy watchdog, has been going in overdrive lately. Now we have a disquieting interview in Le Monde, the big French daily, with Claude Mandil, the head of the Agency, who pulls no punches, despite an apparent denial of “peak oil.”
Danger from chemicals getting into SF Bay
Brick maker uses trash, saves cash
Earth to shoppers: Bag the plastic sack
The cost of a diaper and other trash
Dan Bednarz in Orion: Medicine after oil
Steve Andrews of ASPO-USA on CNBC
Interview: Les Magoon on USGS 2000 report
Peak oil in BBC play: Second To Midnight
Geophysicist: Will higher prices bring more supplies?
Cesare Marchetti’s curves (energy substitution model)
