Peak oil – Jan 7
Oil: fast-vanishing drug the world can’t live without
An almost friendly update on world oil
Scientific American and the silent lie
Bartlett to introduce PO and energy bills to Congress
Of leeches & midwives?
Fossil Fuels
Profile: Energy Bulletin
Energy Bulletin, like the Post Carbon Institute and much of the broader peak oil movement, is based on a much more useful and accurate foundation than the assumptions underlying most corporate media and government planning discourses — who generally take as a given continuing growth in access to energy.
2006 top green tech ideas
In 2005, Americans woke up to the reality of peak oil. In 2006, we started seeing more attention to the two paths that can lead us forward:
energy efficiency and renewable energy. A number of good ideas have surfaced.
Coal – Jan 6
Senators Bunning, Obama push coal-to-liquids
China’s coal future
Slowing coal plants in Texas
My 2007 peak oil to do list
If we start now and do every day what we can do, we have a good chance of looking back in a few years and being pleasantly surprised that we made it – changed, for sure, but still here.
The peak oil crisis: 2006 in review
The returns are not in yet, but anecdotal evidence is accumulating that many parts of Africa, Central America, and Asia are starting to shut down. For these peoples, the oil age, such as it was, is already over.
Energy: That’s oil, folks…
The prominent journal Nature has a detailed report on peak oil and its skeptics. (Excerpts)
Canadian Gas Exports To US Set For Sharp Drop In 2007
A steep decline in Canadian natural gas drilling, coupled with increased gas consumption as more oilsands fields come onstream, could dramatically reduce the amount of gas Canada exports to the U.S. in 2007.
Energy policy – Jan 3
Reserves divided between 2 superpower blocs; war over underwater reserves?
Bush to talk tough on energy but snub Kyoto
Will new Congress change our disastrous energy policy?
Fuelling a Food Crisis: The impact of peak oil on food security
Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes – and could cause the UK to be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the Second World War, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas.
The peak oil story during 2006
An executive summary of major developments in peak oil for the year.
Seattle “peak-oilers” prepare for a world without petroleum
Food shortages, cars abandoned, another depression. It’s the stuff of nightmares — and the type of future an eclectic group of engineers, computer experts and others in Seattle believe could await us.
