Senate Fiddles While America Sizzles
In the midst of the midsummer heat wave that scorched the eastern United States, the Senate voted 71-25 to allow oil and gas drilling in a section of the Gulf of Mexico now off-limits to such activity.
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Aug 13
UK organisations that recognise peak oil / Designing the future (PO & systems engineering) / Ripe for revolution / The real price of oil / “400,000 barrels here, 400,000 barrels there. Pretty soon, you’re talking about a lot of oil.”
Peak oil – Aug 12
Perception management – CERA and IHS energy / Peak-oil theory warns tank’s almost empty (investing) / Scarcity, mother of invention / Scientific American: Energy’s future beyond carbon (special issue)
No more business as usual
There are few more qualified people in the world who can discuss Peak Oil than Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, retired “senior energy expert” of National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC. So when Bakhtiari talks, people ought to listen. He says: “We are entering an era in which we know nothing much, where we have a brand-new set of rules.”
What happens to our food when the oil runs out?
The Soil Association is looking ahead and preparing for a post peak oil world as an organisational priority. Our aim is to create a new, localised food culture that will deliver long-term quality of life in place of the old dynamic of unrestrained globalisation and short-termist exploitation.
Climate response – Aug 11
Cities, States aren’t waiting for U.S. action on climate / Nature editorial: capturing carbon / Geosequestration in Australia
CERA’s report is over-optimistic
It is obvious that ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas, is a problem for CERA, or maybe a business opportunity, as Daniel Yergin in the overview of the report announce a forthcoming report, “Myths and Legends Concerning Peak Oil”.
Prudhoe Bay – Aug 10
But I thought oil prevented rust / British Petroleum’s ‘Smart Pig’: The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown /
Did BP Purposefully Allow its Alaska Pipeline? / An oil leak rattles a state and its workers / BP was told of pipeline worries in ’04
Peak oil – Aug 10
Oil supply can outpace future demand, CERA says / Daniel Yergin, the “Energy Pope,” deconstructed / Peak oil panic – phase 1 /
Is a wall of oil heading for the market? /
Saudi oil: far from twilight (Michael Lynch)
Climate change – Aug 9
Med to lose pull as Earth heats up /
Taller mountains a result of global warming /
Sea-bed plan to store carbon / John Kerry: Time to put climate change on the national agenda /
Britain can still lead the world – on climate change
Peak oil – Aug 9
New ASPO-Ireland Newsletter / Chicago Tribune: Oil’s twilight / Malaysia oil fears prompt Petronas to buy into Russian producer /
CERA: oil supply still plentiful
Transport – Aug 9
School district 2/3 the size of Rhode Island deals with soaring gas prices / Airlines may be nearing ceiling on fares / Give up cheap flights, holidaymakers told / Oil prices could short-circuit recovery of commercial aircraft industry / Defense Dept. and industry seek alternatives for air fuel
