Trouble in the oil patch – Feb 1
Big Oil has trouble finding new fields
Western majors feel the squeeze
Shell feeds doubts about oil industry
Industry
Peak oil – Feb 1
Satellite o’er the desert (Saudi oil supply)
IEA refutes ‘peak oil’, points to lack of investment
Minnesota legislators to hear from Simmons
Rifkin: Europe could make the third industrial revolution’
Up from dysfunction – Jan 31
Move it, you just might get younger
California to probe development of ‘green’ chemicals
From buses to blogs, a pathological individualism is poisoning public life
Former CEO of Talisman Energy: Peak oil is ‘here or hereabouts’
Dr Jim Buckee has just retired as President and CEO of Talisman Energy, a major independent Canadian oil company with a market capitalisation of $25-billion. On the phone from Perth, Dr Buckee told me that ‘peak oil’ was now either here, or very close.
Solutions & sustainability – Jan 30
Sheryl Crow’s peak oil protest song
Cheap at twice the price: sustainable fashion
Europe thinks alternatively in quest to go ‘green’
High oil prices boost energy efficiency
Water – Jan 29
Peak water in Saudi Arabia
Food and drink giants pledge to reduce water use in UK
Farmers work to conserve water
Peak oil – Jan 28
Peak oil activist in the Wall Street Journal
Shell: Fuel crisis looms by 2015
US petroleum supply, ethanol, and state of the industry
Climate – Jan 28
Big business: climate ‘very low on agenda’
Making 2010 Winter Games carbon neutral
Everything’s Cool: a real-life disaster movie
The WSJ article on a CERA oil decline study
Critique of CERA’s study by the author of the “Hirsch report” on peak oil.
Shell executive on peak oil, oil prospects
Excerpts from a long interview with Shell’s Jeroen van der Veer.
Peak oil – Jan 25
Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
The Gospel According to Matthew [Simmons]
Hagens, Savinar interview
PO talk in Minnesota
PO activist in Saturdays’s WSJ
Climate – Jan 24
Academia moving fast enough on climate change?
Europe plans revamp of carbon trading
Businesses want a say in global-warming bill
Photojournalist Braasch gives first-hand account of warming’s impact
