Food and agriculture – Sept 21
UK Agriculture, Organic Farming and Relocalisation
Virtual Water Trade and Water Footprints
On India’s Farms, a Plague of Suicide
Fossil Fuels
Production declines in spite of high oil prices
While the price of West Texas Intermediate oil about $27/barrel higher than the average during 2004, global liquid hydrocarbons production declined more than 100,000 barrels/day.
Geopolitics – Sept 19
Russia revokes permit for Sakhalin-2
Iran and Venezuela plan Syrian refinery
Russian oil exports to China by rail up 25%
Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa
Peak oil – Sept 19
It’s a dogma-eat-dogma world
Those who deride PO theory don’t know Jack
The forest and the trees – oil news imbalance
Discovery Channel sustainability series
ASPO Australia patron re-elected
Peak Oil – Sept 18
Reporter questions oil news
$15 oil? The cornucopians are fighting back
Pragmatists and heretics-PO and runaway GW
Penn. conference touts alternatives to oil
IEA’s Mandil: Instability drops, oil follows suit
Iran – Sept 18
Iran oil bourse launch underway
Chavez greets Iranian president in Caracas
China asserts Iran’s right to civilian nuclear
Sinopec, Iran to sign deal
What war with Iran would look like
Iran nukes: compromise may be in the works
Allies under pressure as US wages financial war on Iran
Institutional investors warned about peak oil and climate change
A major report launched today warns institutional investors to pay attention to the dangers of climate change and peak oil. The fourth Carbon Disclosure Project report is the result of a collaboration of 225 institutional investors with combined assets of $31 trillion.
Energy policy – Sept 18
Let’s talk gas tax
Kunstler’s ‘wild hair’ column
Liberal Dems unveil plans for ‘green’ car tax
Critics: World Bank energy scheme misguided
US cuts funds for 2 renewable energy sources
The good news about oil prices is the bad news
California, taking big gamble, tries to curb greenhouse gases
Peak Oil – Sept 17
Whither oil prices?
OPEC sheds production ceiling
As prices tumble, doomsayers hold fast to prophecy
Geopolitics – Sept 17
Yemen foils attacks on oil plants
Sinopec set for 51% stake in Yadavaran
Putin declines EU’s energy charter
Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
Oil prices – Sept 17
Brainstorming on oil price manipulation
India: volatile oil prices a big worry
Mandil: Capacity limits to curb oil price fall
IMF raises 2007 oil price forecast 20%
Get ready for price rationing, says oil guru Groppe
As prices tumble, doomsayers hold fast to prophecy
Peak-oil theorists reject any claims of resurgence in supply. It’s been a tough week for peak-oil theorists — those limits-to-growth doomsayers who argue the world’s crude oil supply has begun an inexorable decline that will force prices ever higher.
