End of cheap oil, the global energy crisis and climate change
We in India who have lived in a biodiversity and biomass energy economy are rushing into oil addiction precisely when the global oil supply is running low and prices are running high.
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – July 7
The last perfect day / Richard Neville: Power down, pecker up / Linearize this… / Portland announces peak oil task force / Minneasota columnist on PO /
Peak Oil? (Australian TV July 10, 12:)
Oil – July 7
Oil rigs leaving Gulf of Mexico / Oil companies reluctant to invest in Iraq / Fox-hailed deepwater well a modest gas find / Costs explode at Shell Canadian venture
Peak oil – July 6
Opposition demands ‘true’ reserve figures in Kuwait /
Billionaires Soros and Rogers on peak oil /
Matthew Simmons talk at Cambridge Forum /
The End of Suburbia promo at last /
Robert Newman’s History of Oil
An Open Letter to Greg Palast
Richard Heinberg addresses negative comments by investigative journalist Greg Palast about Peak Oil and those who study it.
Coal – July 5
Search for new oil sources leads to processed coal / Germany gives coal opt out under CO2 emission plan /
Does Air Force have a coal-powered plane in its future? / Old king coal to reign (“Best hope for energy security”) /
Coal’s false promise to America
Environment – July 5
Farming must change to aid environment / Finnish EU Presidency wants ‘new generation’ of environmental policy / 12% of bird species to be in peril by 2100 / Buried greenhouse gases may escape: scientists /
Journalist Ross Gelbspan on global warming
The FT’s Martin Wolf does not believe in peak oil
I’ll wait for his article on global warming to make too rash a conclusion, but this article is not reassuring that we’re ever going to get our elites to take energy issues seriously.
Why the Swedish oil commission fails to deliver route to oil independence
Last week, the commission on oil dependency, tasked with charting Sweden’s way out of dependency, issued its report. Disappointingly, the report fails to address the heart of the issue – dependency and management of risk for societal collapse – instead it chooses to concentrate on technical solutions for energy supply.
Other energy – July 4
Cautionary tales amid the latest coal revival / Gas companies on ‘treadmill’ of demand / Kuwaiti experts predict steady rise in oil prices / Washington Post:
the false hope of biofuels / Malaysia suspends biodiesel effort / Helping Air Force blue turn green
Peak oil – July 4
Urban location, housing debt and oil vulnerability in the Australian City / How to define ‘energy security’? / ASPO Newsletter for July / National Education Association alerted to peak oil
Peak Oil – July 3
Audio: Peak Oil and the Environment in Washington /
Kunstler and Darley: The Post-Carbon Society – An Overview /
U.S. Army War College: Preemptive Energy Security: An Aggressive Approach to Meeting America’s Requirements /
La Plata County: Methane production past its peak
