Peak Oil Review – Feb 23
A weekly roundup of Peak Oil issues – including:
– Production and Prices
– The March OPEC meeting
– Nigeria
– China goes shopping
– Briefs
Geopolitics & Military
Economics & consequences – Feb 21
Is Eastern Europe primed to explode?
Economy strains under weight of unsold items
The axis of upheaval
ODAC Newsletter – 20 Feb
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Prices & supplies – Feb 20
Total sticks to oil investment strategy
Oil demand may begin to peak soon: report
Beijing lends Russia $25bn for 20 years of oil supplies
Geopolitics – Feb 19
Egyptian Workers Strike against Fertilizer Export to Israel
David King: Iraq was the first ‘resource war’ of the century
Russian gas imports to Korea start in April
Crude Impact and The Tyranny of Oil
ODAC Newsletter – 13 Feb
Weekly round up from a UK perspective.
Reality Report: Ecological Economics (rebroadcast)
If an economic system is built on myths that aim to defy the laws of physics and ecology we should not be surprised to see it fail. Perhaps we can use this crisis to begin asking the right questions and redesign with human needs and planetary realities in mind. The Reality Report interviews Professor Joshua Farley of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.
Reality Report: Michael Klare and the geopolitics of resource consumption
In this show, Jason Bradford and Professor Michael Klare discuss the geopolitics of resource competition. Nations are engaging in a dangerous zero sum game as they jostle over finite supplies of fossil fuels, including the positioning of opposing advanced weapons systems in unstable parts of the world.
China – Feb 6
Drought threatens Chinese wheat crop
Darley: China Enters A New And ‘Interesting’ Phase
China to Construct 8 Strategic Oil Reserve Bases
Deep thought – Feb 3
The Myth of the Efficient Car
Remaking America: The Ambiguities of Obama
Dangerous Oil
Global – Jan 31
Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets
Arctic’s thaw brings security risks for NATO
Gulf’s green claims awash in a desert of deception
Reality Report: Interview with Jay Hanson
In the 1990s Jay Hanson’s web site predicted with uncanny accuracy key trends of the early 21st century with respect to energy, the environment and geopolitics. What did he learn that most of us still don’t know, and what does he foresee ahead of us?
