Nuclear – Aug 24
– Slow start for revival of nuclear reactors
– Radioactive leak reaches nuclear plant’s groundwater
– Nuclear pitch for oil sands
Fossil Fuels
An Open Letter to my Friends in the Media
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, you can now have either your honor or the status quo. If you do nothing regarding Peak Oil, you will soon have neither the status quo nor your honor.
Peak oil – Aug 23
– Oil output set to peak, but no fuel shortage-UBS
– Australian interview with Richard Heinberg
– Peak oil odyssey: the revolution will not be televised, nor will television be revolutionized
– FEASTA: The economic challenge of sustainability
Peak Oil – Aug 22
Skrebowski in Australia: Petrol $2/l by Christmas /
New blog: Peak Oil Blues /
David Holmgren interview on the Heinberg-Holmgren speaking tour of Australia /
Peak Confidence /
Peak Oil Passnotes: Supply ‘Cushionitis’
Oil industry – Aug 22
Trust eroding in oil pipelines close to home / Simmons: pipeline crisis ‘could halve flow of oil’ / BP denies it manipulated Alaska pipeline data / Exxon: oil, gas and that’s it / Oil prices ‘may retreat to $58 in 2008’ / Costs surge threatens Big Oil’s output plans
Cuba’s pathbreaking energy policies
As the age of oil ends, a society that clings to the social and economic institutions and practices of the early twenty-first century will go the way of North Korea. The lesson to be learned from these two Communist states is change or die. [Former Washington Post columnist von Hoffman jumps on the peak oil bandwagon.]
ASPO 5. Richard Heinberg on the Oil Depletion Protocol
Richard spoke on the morning of the first day of the ASPO 5 conference and gave a clear and passionate overview of the Oil Depletion Protocol. Here is an overview of what he said.
ASPO 5. Colin Campbell Puts the Oil Age Into Perspective…
The first proper speech of ASPO 5 was by Dr. Colin Campbell, and was called ‘Peak Oil in Perspective’.
ASPO 5. Robert Hirsch scares me out of my wits…
Bob Hirsch is the author of the deeply influential Hirsch report which has been referred to here on many occasions. I had really been looking forward to hearing him speak but found his talk hugely disappointing.
Net Oil Exports Revisited
Jeffrey J. Brown on the decline in global oil exports and the future of suburbia
CERA’s Rosy Oil Forecast – Pabulum to the People
CERA’s new report might be reassuring if they did not have a checkered forecasting record, and if its findings were not hedged six ways to Sunday.
John D. Rockefeller and the Age of Oil
IF WE ARE reaching the Peak Oil phase of the Age of Oil, perhaps it is useful to return to its origins to understand how it all began. What brought mankind to the point where we now find ourselves? It is not overstating the case to say that John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil Co. invented the Age of Oil as we know it.
