ODAC Newsletter – Sept 12
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Industry
United States – Sept 11
Wide-ranging ethics scandal emerges at Interior Dept
Gov’t officials investigated for sex, gifts (oil royalties)
Top analyst: Reduced dominance predicted for U.S.
Dems’ offshore drilling plan comes with catch
Energy political reporter on the White House race
United Kingdom – September 11
Cleared: Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
Nuclear is the real threat to the fuel-poor, not wind energy
How good an eco-driver are you? Regulator’s tips on careful motoring may save £500 a year
The offshore? Good luck, bad luck and mukluk
The Outer Continental Shelf is not a panacea for today’s higher oil prices. The best prospects in US waters – including most of the Gulf of Mexico and a thousand miles of Alaskan shoreline – are already open for leasing. There’s probably some oil in the moratoria areas, but it is a decade or more from market.
Fossil fuels – September 8
Dirty little secret
Kingsnorth trial: Goldsmith defends climate change activists
Nasa scientist appears in court to fan the flames of coal power station row
United States – Sept 6
Governor Palin – How Big Oil went from friend to foe in Alaska
Roscoe Bartlett: Drilling for clean energy
Winona LaDuke on climate and energy
Riding the wind with T. Boone
ODAC Newsletter – Sept 5
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Fossil fuels – September 4
Coal plans go up in smoke
Nasa scientist appears in court to fan the flames of coal power station row
The world spends $300 billion subsidizing fossil fuels
Heinberg on New Coal Technologies
ODAC Newsletter – August 29
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective
Harpooning the earth – drilling with Charlie
If guys like Charlie stopped working for a year, you’d have to turn a few things off, big things like, say, New York and Ohio.
Peak oil, prices, supplies – Aug 21
Jad Mouawad: As oil giants lose influence, supply drops
A few speculators dominate vast market for oil trading
The future is now; the end of cheap oil
Russia sees oil output stalling
Raymond James: State of Russian oil ‘much worse than we would have imagined 6 months ago’
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, nuclear energy and government
As we see news of the possible (and increasingly likely) bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae by the US Treasury, I am reminded of something that I have been writing about nuclear energy, ie that it should be financed by the State, and I’d like to extend on why I think there are fascinating similarities between the two topics, however distinct they may seem.
