Energy Policy – Feb 7
Pennsylvania Launches Energy Independence Plan
Nigeria’s Energy Crisis
Saudi to boost US forces fuel supply
China’s military ordered to cut energy use
China’s strategic oil reserve begins operation
Fossil Fuels
Australian Senate inquiry into future oil supply and alternative transport fuels
This inquiry was prompted by the question of whether Australia should be concerned about ‘peak oil’. This term refers to the theory that, for fundamental geological reasons, global conventional oil production will reach a peak and then start an irreversible decline soon enough to be of concern.
China – Feb 6
A canary in the Chinese coal mine
China to keep relying on coal
Carbon-free living: China’s green leap forward
Peak oil – Feb 6
Lester Brown interview (“PO may be imminent”)
Australia oil supply report to be released
“The End of Oil” – Link TV special Feb 9, 10
Peak oilers’ error
Bartlett on CNN at 5:30 ET Feb 6
DVDs of the Boston Peak Oil Conference
Oil industry – Feb 5
Oil workers targeted as Nigeria violence grows
Peru’s Amazon oil deals denounced
Mixing oil and water
Oil Search, Exxon drop Papua New Guinea gas gipeline
Limits to Growth co-author says collapse due to climate possible
It is unlikely that oil scarcity will prove capable of triggering a global collapse, according to Norwegian scholar Jorgen Randers, co-author of the prophetic 1972 book The Limits to Growth. “The period of high oil prices will give strong stimulus for increased energy efficiency,” he said. However, the rapid increase in emissions of climate gases does have the potential to cause a collapse.
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Oil industry – Feb 2
Shell president says energy abounds
Exxon and Shell see profits rocket
Peak oil – Feb 2
Orlov: Collapse and its discontents
A day in a life without oil
Agriculture meets PO at Soil Association
Farming, supermarkets & the end of cheap oil
Peak Oil – Feb 1
Any Painless Way To Fill The Oil Supply Gap?
Liberal markets create an addiction to gas
The Rapid Collapse of Cantarell by the Numbers
How can Oil plan at all?
Goldseek interview Kunstler
Global warming obstructionism
Word from participants who shall remain nameless is that China has taken the lead in global warming obstructionism in 2007.
Simmons says global oil supply has peaked
“I am firmly of the belief that over the course of the next year or two, this issue of peak oil will replace global warming as an issue”
The best method of carbon sequestration
Given the uncertainties, the costs and the alternatives available to us–conservation, efficiency, wind and solar–does it make sense to build a hugely expensive sequestration infrastructure that will essentially be a giant subsidy for the coal industry?
