Peak oil – Dec 24
McKibben in Sierra Club: Energizing America
TOD: A primer on reserve growth
How to address contrarian arguments: “We have huge reserves”
Rail-Volution on peak oil
Peak food and population overshoot
We don’t know Jack
Fossil Fuels
Our energy future (summary)
Recommendations from the complete paper.
Our energy future – a point of view
A detailed analysis in the tradition of the late Admiral Rickover. It takes as its starting point the finite nature of fossil fuels and concludes with some surprising recommendations. Author DiNunno is a retired engineer with a 64-year career in the electrical/nuclear field (AEC, DoE, etc.), especially in the planning and oversight of nuclear reactors.
Peak oil – Dec 22
Audio interview with Tom Whipple (new)
Desperately shrinking Big Oil
Cultural Economist: online report on oil depletion
Skeptics speak against their own interests
UK Soil Assn conference focuses on peak oil
Dr. Jerry Unruh – interview
Peak oil and the energy utilization chain (EUC)
Open letter to Peter Jackson of CERA
Analyst Chris Skrebowski is “surprised and somewhat saddened to read CERA’s curious attack on the concept of Peak Oil.” After analyzing CERA’s figures, however, he concludes that “far from dispelling concerns about Peak Oil you have effectively confirmed that they are real and imminent. “
Turkmen death puts gas supplies in turmoil
The death of Turkmen leader Saparmurat Niyazov on Thursday plunges Europe’s energy security into doubt, with the prospect of a struggle for power raising the specter of a new gas crisis. (headlines)
Oil – Dec 22
NYT: Incentives on oil barely help U.S.
Mexico’s lost oil revenue
Trading coal for oil
Oil boom for Norwegian outpost
OPEC and Middle East – Dec 21
Enlarged Opec aims for high crude prices
Angola joins OPEC (TOD analysis)
Saudi Aramco revealed as biggest group
Gulf states study shared nuclear program
Richest people of the Middle East
OPEC says peak oil near
In the most recent edition of the OPEC Bulletin, a senior member of OPEC writes: “…peak oil output is not very far away for all of us.”
Iraq and oil – Dec 21
Senators Clinton, Ensign propose Iraq Oil Trust
Iraq oil law stuck on contracts
Iraq’s oil smuggling
How will America keep control of oil fields?
US energy policy – Dec 21
State of the Region 2006 (Southern California)
New call to reduce dependence on foreign oil
FedEx founder on energy independence
Mississippi salt dome selected to expand U.S. oil reserves
Oil & gas companies to pay royalties
NY Times: royalty rip-off
Oil sands and shale – Dec 21
The cautious U.S. boom in oil shale
Oil sands key target for global energy players
Toxic waste left in wake of oil sands extraction
