Peak oil & copper – Dec 17
New Presentations by Matthew Simmons
Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
Normally staid IEA says oil will peak in 2020
Chile: copper production down, copper price down … and it’s only going to get worse
Industry
Prices & supplies – Dec 17
Oil Prices Below $40 per Barrel
Will postponed investment push peak oil forward?
UK peak oil warning
UK Industry on Peak Oil: Virgin, Yahoo and Others Raise the Alarm
United States – Dec 17
Panel: Navy will need oil for decades
Hard Task for New Team on Energy and Climate
Red Flags as Washington Gears Up to Remake Energy Policy
Peak oil review – Dec 15
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– The December 17th OPEC meeting
– Obama’s energy team
– Automobiles
– Briefs
Peak oil – Dec 15
NPR on ‘peak oil theory’
Simmons and Hirch at Energy Roundable
Matt Simmons talk: The three energy amigos
Coal – Dec 15
Washington DC coal protest planned in March
Rachel Maddow takes on ‘clean coal’ and its carolers
Coal saga burns into 2009
League of Conservation Voters’ Karpinski says ‘clean coal’ claims by industry untrue
Michigan must pull the plug on coal
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Great December Bailout
So what do we do with Detroit? As now seems likely, its future course will be increasingly controlled by the federal government. Currently the plan is for this control to be exercised by an auto czar tasked with making sure that the multi-billion government loans are not used to pay for excessive executive compensation or dividends on worthless stock, and that the companies move expeditiously to “restructure” so they will not become permanent wards of the state. It is only a matter of time however that, no matter how well intentioned, the government’s involvement in “restructuring” expands to corporate decisions about what to make and how to make it
Obama & the green new deal – Dec 9
Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale
Obama’s Energy-Environment Team Likely To Be Named Next
Obama meeting with Gore raises eyebrows
Oil, Copper Advance After Obama Promises Public Works Spending
Do expansive federal bailout plans doom Americans to an inflationary future?
United States – Dec 8
After Layoffs, Workers Stay at a Factory in Protest
Making a new New Deal: Sitdown Strike in Chicago
Can Obama Really Afford His Infrastructure Program?
Peak oil review – Dec 8
A weekly review including:
– Prices and production
– OPEC and Russia are hurting
– Investment continues to fall
– Detroit in the balance
– Briefs
ODAC Newsletter – Dec 5
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Peak oil – Dec 3
Charley Maxwell interview
IEA WEO 2008 – Fossil fuel ultimates and CO2 emissions scenarios
World oil forecasts using Wikipedia megaprojects, Dec 2008
Court of Appeals judge: The bell tolls for hydrocarbons: what’s next?
