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.
Fossil Fuels
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.
Latin America – Nov 26
Ecuador election: leftist economist vs banana baron
Venezuela’s costly policy of cheap gas
Erroneous Venezuela oil production figures?
Admiral Rickover: The future of fossil fuels
In 1957, U.S. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” delivered a startling speech on “Energy Resources and Our Future.” The speech prefigured the current peak oil analysis, calling our age the “fossil fuel age.” He warned that reserves are “likely to run out at some time between 2000 and 2050.”
Russia – Nov 26
Russia attacks the West’s Achilles’ heel
Putin issues veiled warning to east Europe
Europe backs down on the energy charter
Why Russia has a gas shortage
Peak oil – Nov 26
How to address peak oil skeptics
Friendly fire – the dark side of techno-fixes
Investment in oil E&P – an above-ground factor
How to prepare for peak oil and climate change (permaculture)
Power Companies Order Up Texas Toast
On Tuesday, climate scientist James Hansen said that the world has less than a decade to take decisive action on global warming or risk tipping the planet towards catastrophe. ..The world may have ten years, but Texas only has six months to stop TXU from turning our climate to toast.”
An Interview with Michael Meacher MP on peak oil and relocalisation
“We could actually lead a happier life if we took some of the luxury or unnecessarily or gratuitously excessive edges off our material lifestyle.”
As Fuel Prices Soar, A Country Unravels
Energy shock hits the upwardly mobile poor hardest
in Africa’s Guinea. Riots, blackouts cripple cities.
A hospital’s incubator shuts down.
