United States & Canada – July 16
Xcel set to cut power to 47,000
Made in America energy policy
Hog heaven, part 1 – Increased offshore drilling does not substitute for national energy policy
Industry
Australia – July 16
Australia faces food crisis as rivers reach new low
A gas supply disruption case study – the Varanus Island explosion
Australia considers first new coal port in 25 years
Peak oil – July 11
Economist profiles Matt Simmons – The only way is down
Saudi oil: A crude awakening on supply?
Giant oil field to raise Saudi output
Interview: Caltex chief executive Des King
Prediction: oil will correct to $70-$80 over 3 years
United States & Canada – July 11
Lifting drilling ban wouldn’t do much for gas prices, report says
Public opinion on drilling and the environment
American life worth less today
President George Bush: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter’
EPA won’t act on emissions this year
Biofuels – July 11
Guardian ‘publishes the biofuels report they didn’t want you to read’
Donald Mitchell, World Bank
Bad juice II: biofuels maybe not quite so bad, World Bank says
Rising food prices: policy options and World Bank response
Prices & supplies – July 9
Are We in the peak of an oil bubble?
Are big bets by speculators driving up oil?
Oil majors: Oil price hike due to fundamentals, not speculation
Analyzing the analysts (Part 1 of 2)
Oil: the new reality
China’s renewable energy plans: shaken, not stirred
The May 12th earthquake in western China’s Sichuan Province will have effects reaching further outside China than Beijing is letting on. Sichuan Province holds the key to China’s hydroelectric power generation plans in its renewable power targets and the area is also a hub for worldwide outsourced wind turbine equipment. Both were badly damaged.
Oil industry – July 8
Pemex Cantarell output drops most since 1995 on spending limits
Chinese and Japanese best-placed for oil contracts in Iraq
Genesis of a giant
Peak oil & prices – July 7
Shell’s future scenarios – Staring into energy’s black hole
Allianz predicts oil price of $200 a barrel in next 2 years
School’s out: let the summer begin (latest Simmons talk)
Effects – July 5
World must brace for oil beyond $150
As gas prices soar, elderly face cuts in aid
Korea: High crude costs make industries mull surrender (petrochemical, travel, auto)
United States – July 6
NYT: American energy policy, asleep at the spigot
America’s love affair fades as the car becomes burden of suburbia
US oil firms seek drilling access, but exports soar
Solutions & sustainability – July 4
Profile of Bill McKibben
Interview with Amory Lovins
Megan Quinn Bachman: Surviving peak oil, thriving in community
Climate dialogue groups in Seattle
