Dr Doom?
Adam Fenderson meets the man who predicts the end of life as we know it, and comes away feeling strangely optimistic. Also: a conference devoted to Peak Oil, where the mood was positive, and offered a sense of opportunity.
Fossil Fuels
Peak Oil Headines – 29 September, 2005
Peak Oil and Community Solutions Conference (Sunday) / A peek at Peak Oil, Inc. / Matt Simmons Issues a Wake Up Call / Apollo Alliance update / Peaknik and Doomer make WikiPedia
Open letter to Daniel Yergin on optimism and addressing Peak Oil seriously
In the interview of Daniel Yergin by Tom Ashbrook, on Point Radio, one of the giants of the opposition to the Peak Oil theory stood forward.
Only after listening to the interview, I got the feeling that not only did he not understand the theory, it’s premises, or even its full assertions and facts, but that he hadn’t really given it enough gravity to even study it. Perhaps he “wiki’d” it. Further, I got the feeling that he was run on high octane optimism mixed with a small amount of BS.
Billions or trillions of barrels more, say Saudi Oil Minister, Exxon
Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer, and Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company, yesterday declared that the world had decades’ worth of oil to come, in an attempt to calm fears about the record prices experienced in recent weeks.
Rita causes record damage to oil rigs
Hurricane Rita has caused more damage to oil rigs than any other storm in history and will force companies to delay drilling for oil in the US and as far away as the Middle East, initial damage assessments show
Peak Oil Headlines – 28 September, 2005
Dr Doom? / Peak Oil and Community Solutions Conference / Five percent and Twenty Five percent / Denver World Oil Conference Nov 10-11 / The Courage to be right and alone Richard Russell on Oil / Volvo: peak by 2015
Rep. Bartlett’s 2005 energy conference – news coverage
The Sept 26 conference was covered in CSPAN, local news and broadcast outlets and Peak Oil blogs.
Designing Energy Descent Pathways: One community’s attempt at designing a prosperous way down from the peak.
Rob Hopkins talks us through how he helped turn one small town onto the problem of Peak Oil, and how together they created a profoundly positive and practical community plan to deal with it.
Rep. Bartlett’s 2005 energy conference – transcript (part 3)
Speaker: Engineer/author John Howe. General question-and-answer session.
Rep. Bartlett’s 2005 energy conference – transcript (part 1)
Transcript of the Sept 26 energy conference held in Maryland. This section focuses on the nature of the problem, with talks by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, Dr. Kenneth Deffeyes, Matthew Simmons and Richard Heinberg.
Politics and Economics Headlines – 28 September, 2005
Nigerian oil facilities reopen as militia threats withdrawn / High gas prices raise questions of gouging / Saudi Oil: A Slippery Future? / Bus fleets feeling the fuel pinch / To conserve gas, President calls for less driving / Ottawa hints at energy cost relief / Alberta claims answer to refinery crunch / Big auto makers want Bush to act on energy / Experts push OPEC relocation, Gulf Spot market
Simmons and Kunstler to talk in Dallas
Matthew Simmons and James Kunstler are coming to Dallas November 1 to share their vision of oil’s future and how we can adapt and plan for a new era of energy use and sustainable development.
