Dysfunction – Dec 3
Naomi Klein: Forget the green technology – the hot money is in guns
Eat, drink and be miserable: the true cost of our addiction to shopping
Clogged by plastic bags, Africa begins banning them
Geopolitics & Military
Oil producers – Dec 2
The high-stakes U.S. courtship of Turkmenistan
Venezuela threatens to cut oil exports to U.S
The 10 oil producers most likely to shock the world
OPEC countries will rival China in 08 oil demand growth
Living the diesel shortages in China
Trucks are lining up in their hundreds at three stations in Chongqing, China, in the hopes of getting 40 litres of fuel. In this city of 10 million, only those three are still selling diesel. This may be an economics-induced dress rehearsal of the reality that will face the rest of the world in the post-peak oil universe.
Hey Bubba, where you going with that oil?
Will military action against Iran work to secure oil for US interests? In order to answer this question, it must be put into the context of peak oil.
Middle East – Nov 29
Saudi Arabia arrests 208 in antiterrorism sweep
Boom fuels new Saudi spending spree
Iraq’s uncertain oil and political prospects (by former minister of oil)
Oil producers – Nov 29
Petrodollars make Russia giddy
Caspian tales
Author of Untapped on African oil
10 oil producers most likely to shock the world
Brazil’s oil: new wealth or petro-populism?
Venezuelan sales of oil byproducts to the US down
National oil firms gain edge on Exxon
Water: the impending apocalypse
I try to show the effects of fire, floods and drought on those living in impossible circumstances. Poor media coverage makes it difficult to understand the overall enormity of the crisis. (Comprehensive compilation of articles and commentary.)
Oil prices – Nov 28
How high can the price of a barrel of crude go?
$100 oil and the ‘S’ word (speculation)
Seven questions: the price of fear
Oil producers – Nov 21
Nigeria seeks control of energy industry
The 10 oil producers most likely to shock the world (10/tie: Angola/Equatorial Guinea)
Bad news from Canada
New oil crisis: an engineer shortage
Energy policies – Nov 20
Castro: Oil costs and development
Southeast Asian leaders back nuclear energy
Nuclear revival in Europe likely
OPEC onstage – Nov 18
Oil price could hit $150 a barrel
Bush to veto anti-OPEC legislation
Oil leaders’ private debate televised by mistake
Chavez blasts U.S. at OPEC summit
Saudi, Venezuela leaders differ on politicizing OPEC
Can Saudi square the oil circle?
Oil producers – Nov 17
Riyadh is boom town as Saudis enjoy oil bonanza
Black gold finances the dreams for Abu Dhabi
How would you manage Saudi’s reserves?
Big day looms for Venezuela: oil socialism
Qatar: dollar slide erodes purchasing power
