Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
This week saw further oil discoveries in the Santos Basin and off the coast of Ghana, extending a run of sizeable finds in recent weeks. Following much breathless reporting of such discoveries, it was good to them put into context by solid analysis from Morgan Stanley and Bank Macquarie…
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Elsewhere
-Oil giants zero in on untapped Greenland
-Norway cuts arctic barrel count
-IEA Raises 2009, 2010 Oil Demand Forecasts on Growth (Update2)
-South Korea’s Hyundai Steel building ‘green mill’
-Is Resource Nationalism Back?
-A Power Station in Your Basement
-Shifting Alliances Define Energy Debate
-British energy firm in the dock over Amazon project
-Arizona firm in deal to spread sun power to China
-The beauty and terror of science
-Human Resource Use: Timing and Implications for Sustainability
-Crisis and Hope
Within the span of a couple generations, we abandoned a durable, finely textured, life-affirming set of living arrangements characterized by self-sufficient family farms intermixed with small towns that provided commerce, services, and culture. Worse yet, we traded that model for a coarse-scaled arrangement wholly dependent on ready access to cheap fossil fuels.
-World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports
-Ukraine, Russia PMs resolve gas dispute: Tymoshenko
-As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms
-Iranian Media: Iran Ready to Negotiate
-Slow Boat to Rare Earth
-Peak Water
-Iowa’s future shouldn’t depend on fossil fuels
Two recent news squibs — the Chinese government’s move to shut down exports of rare earth elements, and the rise of the global derivative market to a total value over one quadrillion dollars — offer a glimpse at the unwelcome future looming up behind the facade of the present.
-A strategic blunder in the North-West Frontier Province
-U.S. Military Says Its Force in Afghanistan Is Insufficient
-Tensions Rise in Post-Election Afghanistan
-Is Pakistan’s Taliban movement on the way out?
-Iran Gas Ban: Step toward War with Iran?
-How Crime Pays for the Taliban
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– The Saudis aroused
-The Gloom in China’s Glowing Economic Stats
-Walker’s World: The China bubble
-China’s wild west
-China pushing yuan as global currency
