How to Bring Down Civilisation
Derrick Jensen thinks the collapse of civilisation, be it deliberate or through oil depletion or any other means, can only be a good thing for the planet.
Fossil Fuels
Energy transition and final energy crisis
The current ‘oil price crisis’ in reality reflects an emerging and permanent supply crisis for oil and gas (which currently provide about 65% of world commercial energy).
Pouring oil on troubled economists
My sense of last weekend’s G7 meetings is that there is an atmosphere of suppressed panic about the oil price, and about the danger of a serious crisis.
Top oil groups fail to recoup exploration costs
The report shows the commercial value of oil and gas discovered over the past three years by the 10 largest listed energy groups is running well below the amount they have spent on exploration.
Turning coal waste into light
In a distressed region of Pennsylvania, Reliant Energy is turning to poisonous piles leftover from decades of mining and using it to power a new plant
Coal crunch: Industry in desperate need of miners
Competing companies are raiding each other for experienced help, renting ad space, billboards, even banner-towing planes at beach resorts with generous offers of pay and benefits in what is turning out to be one very hot sector of the job market.
Venezuela plans to ride oil to economic growth
Venezuela aims to ramp up oil production to an average 3.6 million barrels per day in 2005 to generate 5 percent economic growth and build on this year’s oil-driven recovery, according to the government’s draft budget for next year.
NZ: $1 billion gasfield ‘all on’
It’s “all on” for the $1 billion development of Taranaki’s Pohokura gas discovery. Pohokura will be New Zealand’s most significant petroleum development since the now-declining Maui field came into production in 1979.
Oil price rise hits cattle operator
One of Australia’s largest cattle operators says the dramatic rise in oil prices this year has cost it about $1 million.
Michael Klare on oil wars and the American military
Despite official administration dreams of drastically raising Iraq’s oil output and then using it to float our occupation, we’ve essentially “lost” Iraqi oil — as has the rest of the planet.
North Sea production wilts
North Sea oil production has sunk more than 260,000 barrels per day from last year, aggravating a shortage of high-quality crude that has stoked record prices.
Oil hits $US53 for first time
New York’s main crude oil contract has shot to $US53 a barrel for the first time in opening trade as fears rose for heating oil supplies in the United States winter.
