Energy industry – Oct 6
Where has all The oil gone?! (speculators)
Ecuador plans to extend control over oil industry
Russian oligarchs go on safari for fuel
Geopolitics & Military
Geopolitics – Oct 5
Geopolitical feedback loops in peak oil
The E.P.R. targets Mexico’s energy industry
Japan finds it hard to tap Africa for oil, gas
China and the competition for energy resources
Russian oil industry: Foreign, domestic interests
Oil prices – Kenya & Africa due for crude awakening
United States – Oct 5
Forget your silver bullet (unconventional fuels)
Lawmakers to Pentagon: Plan for climate change
Big Coal tries to recruit military to kindle a market
Air Force pursuing CTL fuel plant
As the world burns
Altogether, it was an extraordinary 30 days. Yet so far there’s been no instantaneous economic implosion, and there’s not much blood in the streets (except perhaps in Myanmar), and so the mainstream media can safely focus on the truly vital issues like O.J. Simpson’s current legal scrapes and Britney Spears’s performance at the MTV awards.
United States – Oct 3
Change in oil dollar denomination unlikely – oil companies
Air Force energy initiatives focus on fuel
DOW chairman: Strength needs energy
3-vol report on strategic unconventional fuels
Whatever happened to sharing the pie of prosperity?
Russia – Oct 2
Russia’s geology in dire straits
Begins to feel the heat on inefficiency
To raise oil exports by 50,000 bpd in Q4
Forging energy dialog with China
Says it will invest more oil wealth in its economy
Deep thought – Oct 2
Nate Hagens at ASPO-6
Vandana Shiva: How to address humanity’s global crises?
Sharon Astyk:
Collateral damage
11th Hour offers solutions to inconvenient truths
Peak oil – Oct 1
Economic impact of peak oil
Kunstler: Two clues for the clueless
How economy could survive oil at $100/barrel
Costly fuel is never far from a match (price rises = turmoil)
ASPO’S Steve Andrews: online PO lecture Tuesday
Buckee of Talisman “believes in peak oil theory”
College sophomore discovers peak oil
PO 10-20 years away, claims WEC
ODAC News
Geopolitics – Sept 27
Dilip Hiro: It’s the oil, stupid (Iraq)
Bolivia’s Evo to UN: “Let’s respect our Mother Earth”
An international court to try ecological crimes?
Iran gets over 70pc oil income in non-US currencies
United States – Sept 25
Oil is up, and this time the dollar is down
Iraq oil deal gets everybody’s attention
Naomi Klein debates Alan Greenspan
What would William Appleman Williams say now?
Geopolitics – Sept 24
Protests swell against Burma’s military regime
Greenspan, Kissinger: oil drives U.S. in Iraq, Iran
Trade warning over ‘green’ product standards
Geopolitics – Sept 23
Demographers: Islam and the West – not a clash of civilizations, but a honeymoon
America and Iran: the spark of war
The war is about oil but it’s not that simple
