Transport – Feb 12
Million motorists embarrass road price ministers
Cuts in gasoline use decades away: US automakers
Transport chief pledges to get Auckland moving
Fossil Fuels
Tar sands – Feb 12
Oil industry finds hot rock resource
Canadian Oil Industry Fears Possible Tax Increase, Enviro Controls
WorleyParsons’ Canadian Play
Australian Senate Oil Supply Report – Feb 12
Parliament recognises Peak Oil as real
Review of Senate report
Oil future raises burning questions
High petrol prices a sign of worse to come
Australian coal climate – Feb 12
Stop coal exports within 3 years
Howard talks nonsense about miners’ jobs
New Anvil Hill coalmine likely to get go ahead
Saving precious water at the flick of a switch
Coal to liquids – Feb 11
Biggest Chinese coal mining company plans huge coal to liquids programme
Governor calls for CTL plant funding
Victorian Minister meets Anglo on venture
Oil industry – Feb 11
Russian about going nowhere
Venezuela tries to attract nore oil rigs
Shell commercial: No easy oil any more
Oil companies open up at CERA conference
Exxon Mobil warms up to climate issue
Coin in the fuse box
By subverting the feedback we need concerning global warming, peak oil and a host of other environmental problems, those engaged in this public relations game of confusion risk letting the equivalent of a house fire occur in the biosphere.
C2C – the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit
The conference was a good place to see what some of the more creative thinkers (the speakers include two Nobel Laureates) see as the technology to get us out of our current mess. (Detailed report)
Oil sands – Feb 9
Oil sands pumping problems: report
Mixing oil and water – Alberta oil sands
Oil patch girds for battle with Ottawa
Depletion – Feb 9
Norway falls to 5th place among oil exporters
Graph of Norway drop (new)
Mexico’s top oil field declining fast – Pemex
Cantarell decline – is peak oil correct?
CIBC no longer predicting $100-a-barrel oil soon
The peak oil crisis: Connecting the dots
There are trend lines and clues from across the earth pointing to serious troubles just ahead, but once again they are not generally perceived as making a “convincing case,” especially when nobody really wants to contemplate the conclusion.
Peak Oil – Feb 8
Flesh on the bones of Mexican oil production
IEA forcasts oil demand growth of 2% a Year
Australia report urges vehicle congestion charge
ASPO Australia response to Senate report
