Italy gears up for international peak oil conference
ASPO’s fifth annual gathering will showcase top oil depletion experts; governments, industry and media taking notice; new focus on dealing with dwindling supplies. July 18-19 in Pisa.
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – June 23
Friedman’s Addicted to Oil documentary this weekend on Discovery / Podcast – Kunstler: PO Impacts on Transportation and Cities / Michael Ruppert’s economic forecast / T. Boone Pickens on Charlie Rose / Yuba Gals “Peak Moment TV” on the road / James Schlesinger: Thinking seriously about energy and oil’s future
Our black future
The biggest problem with our bounty of coal is not what it does to our mountains or the atmosphere, but what it does to our minds. It preserves the illusion that we don’t have to change our lives. Given the profound challenges we face with the end of cheap oil and the arrival of global warming, this is a dangerous fantasy.
Solutions & sustainability – Jun 22
New internet audio archive on sustainable agriculture /
Gardeners can slow climate change /
UK course: Life After Oil: Breaking the Habit /
Why Europe needs regional currencies /
Meg Wheatley on how to communicate Peak Oil
Peak Oil – Jun 22
Staniford: A Critique of the 2006 EIA International Energy Outlook /
Oil consumption seen soaring /
ASPO international conference in Pisa, Italy, July 18-19 /
Meacher: We Need A Change in Energy Policy As Well As in Government
Clinton raises alarm about oil depletion
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has urged newspaper editors to focus more attention on the depletion of the world’s oil reserves. In a June 17 speech Clinton said a “significant number of petroleum geologists” have warned that the world could be nearing the peak in oil production.
A Torrent of Darkness
In the not-too-distant future, the big leadership of the world is going to awaken to the seriousness of what I have just told you about global warming in the previous few paragraphs. What do I mean when I say “big leadership”? I mean all of it, the top honchos, whether U.S. or Chinese or Russian or European, or whomever.
Peak Oil – Jun 21
Klare: The Permanent Energy Crisis /
EIA: International Energy Outlook 2006 /
Donald Fournier: Oil depletion and the US Army /
The Commodity Boom
Peak oil consequences: neglecting future problems is a failure of leadership
I’ve been covering the oil industry for a long time. There is a new breed of economists who are now debating the consequences of a world with reduced petroleum supplies. They are asking, “Why can’t we start preparing for the time when we probably won’t have it?”
Other energy – Jun 21
Oh, Canada! — Natural Gas and the Future of Tar Sands Production /
The Promise and Problems of Those Dirty Black Rocks /
NIMBY-ism for the energy sector /
Nuclear ‘will cost taxpayer billions’ /
Surge in Internet use has tech firms seeking power
Megaprojects analysis explained
I am naturally pleased that my periodic revisions to my megaprojects analysis attract interest and comment. However, it has become clear that a certain amount of misunderstanding and confusion has grown up, particularly about my treatment of depletion.
North Sea Oil Production and its Relationship to Global Oil Production
Roger Blanchard has a good track record predicting U.K. and Norwegian oil peaks. Now he reiterates his prediction of global oil peak in 2010.
