Latin America – Nov 28
Correa ‘wins Ecuador’s election’
Venezuela’s oil-based economy
Mexico: An energy quagmire awaits president-elect
Fossil Fuels
Transition Culture Interview with Richard Heinberg – Part Two… Powerdown and Transition Towns
Richard Heinberg on towns and cities preparing for peak oil, taking the message outside of ‘green’ circles, permaculture, and the oil depletion protocol.
Resource Forecasting for the Geologically Challenged
Crude oil resource estimates tend to diverge to widely different values as the production curve gets close to peaking.
Dr James Hansen: Can We Still Avoid Dangerous Human-Made Climate Change?
Dr James Hansen NASA’s lead climate scientist spoke recently to a packed lecture theatre at Bristol University. Chris Vernon gives a detailed account of the presentation and asks Hansen about peak oil.
Peak Oil at West Point
Two colonels and a four star general presented the poster Army Energy Strategy for the End of Cheap Oil at the 25th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida. Sohbet Karbuz gives us the lowdown.
A new kind of energy for China
It is now official. China is embarking on the world’s largest synthetic fuels program. This has immediate implications for energy planners everywhere, for worldwide finance and capital expenditure, for the global coal markets, for the ecological footprint of Chinese development, for emissions of greenhouse gases…
Caspian oil – Nov 27
Jerome a Paris: A primer on Caspian Oil
Caspian oil field to produce 25% more
Caspian Sea oil producers discuss establishing organization
Disneyland by the Caspian Sea
Venezuelan Oil Stats War
Petroleos de Venezuela SA says the IEA is publishing erroneous Venezuela oil production figures. Sohbet Karbuz, former head of non-OECD energy statistics at the IEA takes a look at the numbers.
Transition Culture Interview with Richard Heinberg – Part One… Peak Oil
Heinberg on the peak oil movement, the relationship with climate change, lifeboats and more.
Politics – Nov 27
Jordan king: 3 Mideast wars possible in 2007
No ‘miracles’ in the desert
G20 calls for energy investment and efficiency
China’s poorest worse off after boom
Saudis threaten to cut ties to Britain over corruption investigation
Peak oil -Nov 27
Peak oil – the South will rise again
Oil, food, the US $ and the “global” drought
Kunstler: The storm perfected
Pickens predicts record 2007 oil price
Examining CERA’s powers of prediction
Energy Mercantilism on the March
New Energy Mercantilism is the set of geopolitical phenomena emerging as nations realize that, in the future, there will not be enough energy to go around to sustain projected demand.
