Climate – Oct 4
KyotoPlus: Escaping the Climate Trap
Climate inaction ‘has high cost’
Global warming will threaten millions say climate scientists
Coal said top enemy in fighting global warming
Fossil Fuels
Oil Price – Oct 4
The Specter of Recession
Oil analysts raise 2007 price forecasts
That Falling Feeling
Schizophrenia in the British gas market
British energy customers must be wondering when the continued bad news of price increases will end. In a mini-version of “Peak Oil” in the UK, the sceptred isle will become and stay a net oil and gas importer next year.
Peak oil – Oct 3
Post Carbon newsletter
Looks like a plateau
India: world about to run out of oil?
Heinberg interview
Peak Oil – Oct 2
Peak oil is, like, so over. Not!
Kuwaiti wonders on oil production
Al Gore on peak oil
Simmons on Financial Sense Online
Geopolitics – Oct 2
Oil and Politics in Iran, Iraq and Russia
Mexican president must ride oil’s fortunes
Odell warns of Russian purchase into Shell, BP
Energy Industry – Oct 2
Iran MP says Japan oil deal ‘to be cancelled’
Nigerian Militants kill troops on Shell convoy
Indonesia warns Japan LNG exports to halve by 2010
Norways Statoil hunts for big oil sands deal
Dow suing Nova over ethane feedstock supplies
Aviation – Oct 2
New aircraft fuel could be pie in the sky
Boeing Says Biofuels Show Some Promise
Why We Need An X Prize for Eco-Friendly Air Travel
Ethanol from Brazil and the USA
Brazilian success with its ethanol from sugar cane has been cited as an example of how the USA could get free from its oil imports by substituting ethanol for gasoline. But comparing USA ethanol from corn with Brazilian ethanol from sugar cane is like comparing mangoes and apples.
Iraq – Sept 29
Iraq, China discuss reviving Saddam-era oil deals
Iraq’s revival of China deal heartens oil majors
Attacks, missteps cost Iraq $16B in oil exports
Iraqi Kurds raise secession threat over oil
Clashes in Iraq as parliament acts to resolve autonomy issue
Peak Oil – Sept 28
Oil Shortages? It’s Happened Before. And It Will Happen Again
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Perfect Storm
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 28
Burning Buried Sunshine
A step in the right direction
Interview With Locavore Jessica Prentice
Interview With Worldwatch Institutes Christopher Flavin
North Bay Energy Transition and Climate Change
