Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The prices we are seeing for fossil fuels are creating an illusion of plenty that masks the central issue of our time: How do we move from our nonrenewable energy economy to a renewable one and do it quickly enough to avoid a catastrophic and rapid decline in the total energy available to human society?
Mergers in pipeline as oil industry’s fairytale era ends
Gulf states run risk of losing investors
The case against dirty oil (Canadian tar sands)
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right (Ukraine gas dispute)
A weekly update from a UK perspective
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices continute to slip
– OPEC keeps trying
Riki Ott’s book Not One Drop is a history of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, told from the perspective of those most affected by it. Cutting through the cloak of willful deception, public relations campaigns and skewed, corporate-sponsored science, it finally exposes the truth about Exxon Valdez‘s devastating effects on the city of Cordova, Alaska, the fishing community where the spill struck.
Abstract: It is sometimes held that U.S. motivations in Iraq and the Persian Gulf, while indeed “largely about oil” (in the well-publicized words of Alan Greenspan), are not (or at least not much) “about access” to the region’s oil per se. This essay critically examines that claim, arguing that the current U.S. resort to force cannot really be understood without regard to the current precariousness of U.S. energy supplies.
A visit to Shell’s Perdido Project in the Gulf of Mexico. The spar itself is about the same height as the Eiffel Tower. But even this $3 billion, state-of-the-art, deepwater project can’t begin to replace the declining “giants” like Cantarell, a few hundred miles to the south.
“Green” billboard ready to light up Times Square
Oil execs see growth in renewable energy
Ambitious solar plans in France
Wind in Wyoming
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– The volatility continues
– Gaza
– OPEC cuts production
– Briefs
Exxon CEO advocates emissions tax
The costly compromises of oil from sand
Oil sands admits PR failure
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Falling Oil Prices: Again, Blame Speculators
Oil Tumbles 12 Percent as U.S. Supplies Rise More Than Forecast
Era of Cheap Energy ‘Will Never Return’
Norway Sees Oil Production Falling 9.7% This Year
