Mini-review: Energy Crossroads, PO documentary
How do you get your older Midwest relatives to swallow the Red Pill and understand why you’re obsessed with peak oil? A DVD for when End of Suburbia just won’t do.
Fossil Fuels
Peak Oil Review — April 23, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Norwegian authorities fear steep crude decline
The Norwegian Oil Director is establishing “a slow and gradual decline” as a best case scenario for Norway, concluding that “serious efforts must be made in several areas” to achieve it. The alternative scenario? Steep decline.
Is Portland preparing for Pittsburgh’s future?
Pittsburgh should follow Portland’s example and get ready for the end of the fossil-fuel era
The American Petroleum Institute on peak oil
The API considers “Peak Oil theory” to be bunk. Yes, they believe that Yergin is more credible than Simmons. As far as dealing with potential supply shortfalls? They don’t believe that we are facing any potential supply shortfalls.
The looming oil crisis could arrive uncomfortably soon
Forecasts of peak oil production have ranged from Thanksgiving weekend 2005 to somewhere beyond 2050. But at the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Long Beach, California, early this month, the latest answer emerged: World oil production could stop growing as early as 2020–too soon to avoid a crisis–or it could hold off until 2040.
Energy producers – Apr 20
Iraq may hold twice as much oil
Jerome a Paris is dubious
Bering Sea likely rich in hydrates
United States – Apr 20
Byron King: The California oil industry
Trans-American sources of electricity
Green utilities are growing, but they need to grow faster
Growing number of Americans see warming as leading threat
Peak oil – Apr 20
Hirsch: Recent forecasts of peak oil production
Swedish study: peak oil by 2018
Bakhtiari: The Century of Roots
“Saudi Arabia has peaked…” [futurology]
Petroleum Institute reaches out, discusses PO
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Oil companies – Apr 19
Exxon: The defiant one
Target global warming, target Exxon
Energy policies – Apr 19
Trade-off looms for arid US: water or power?
EU should not discard military to secure oil, US expert says
European energy security: A bear at the throat
Climate expert urges dropping clean coal
Egypt weighs domestic energy needs as export demands grow
The peak oil crisis: Have the troubles begun?
The one thing everybody agrees on is that all sorts of “bad” things are bound to happen as we transition from plentiful oil to scarcity. For each of us the troubles will begin differently.
