Coal – July 2
Richard Heinberg: Coal in China
Aluminium supply in deficit on coal shortage – UBS
Equipment shortage slows US coal output growth-CEO
Industry
Geopolitics – July 2
Pentagon official warns of Israeli attack on Iran
US ‘won’t allow’ Iran to shut key Gulf oil route
Keep an eye on Khuzestan
Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq
‘Oh Happy Day’
Pipeline opens new front in Afghan war
Drill here? – July 1
Gail Tverberg at TOD: The US offshore drilling debate – “start now” or “wait a while”
Three points on ANWR
Rhizome platform design
Can we get away from the hierarchal model of centralized manufacture and distribution, and replace it with a world where design emerges from open-source collaboration and is manufactured at the point of use by 3-D printers and community manufacturing centers?
World oil reserves and future production
Ray Leonard, Vice-President-Eurasia with Kuwait Energy Company, wrote in a 2001 paper: “By 2010, [oil] production … will start to rapidly decline. This will conflict with the steadily increasing demand for oil. The collision of these two trends will lead to shortages and increased prices, providing a strong incentive to shift to alternative fuel resources…Due to unequal distribution through the world of oil and gas supply and consumption, [the upcoming] transition will result in significant shifts in global power and wealth.”
Q&A with Marcel Coutu of Syncrude
All OPEC can now do is raise prices by cutting production. They cannot lower prices by increasing production because they don’t have the capacity. We are in a very pure free market situation, with prices being set by supply and demand. When I look at that dynamic, I have stopped worrying about the demand side. No matter how much the US goes into recession, for any period that is important to any of us, any decline in consumption there will be offset by increased demand elsewhere – in China and India, but also in developing countries that produce their own crude oil.
United States – June 27
Parties split on how to expand offshore drilling
Democrat and environmentalist turns traitor on drilling
Election spin 2008
Solutions & sustainability – June 27
Profile of bio-regionalist Stephanie Mills
How to cut your fuel bills 80% or more (software)
Introducing a new currency – the “Carbon”
Burbank Water & Power: Smart grids, WiFi, renewables
Peak oil interviews – June 27
Bruce Robinson (ASPO-Australia) on ABC urges governments to prepare for PO
City planner Richard Balfour (founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive)
Jeffrey J. Brown, oil exploration geoscientist
Anadarko Petroleum CEO James Hackett
Clever and deceptive: API’s new ads
In this environment of high oil and natural gas prices, those who have a vested interest in drilling will naturally lobby for the right to do so. This really shouldn’t strike anyone as strange. What we should not do is base our energy policy on the outlandish pronouncements of industry players about the success they expect.
Climate – June 23
Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist Hansen
Iowa-like floods to increase with global warming
Bangladesh set to disappear under the waves by 2100
Prices & supplies – June 20
China shocks with 18 percent fuel price rise
Oil tumbles as China lifts subsidies
Q&A with Guy Caruso of EIA
Dearth of ships delays drilling of offshore oil
Energy sector has turned into a ‘bubble’
