Peak oil & depletion – Feb 26
The oil depletion protocol: Heinberg interview
TOD peak oil update: forecasts and EIA numbers
Mexico oil barrel costs near double
Peak performance? (skeptic)
Industry
Coal: turnaround at TXU
Wall Street adds climate change to bottom line
TXU accepts $45B takeover; buyers made environmental pledge
TXU’s emissions U-turn shocks power industry
A battle over how to build new US coal plants
Smoke and mirrors
CERA has made it their task in life to debunk the peak oil myth. Would people listen as much if they knew the errors CERA has been making?
The Shell Answer Man and peak oil (parts 1 and 2)
I honestly admire and commend Shell CEO John D. Hofmeister for going around to discuss the energy predicament of the U.S. and the world. But what is with the Peak Oil denial by Shell?
Oil industry – Feb 23
Can OPEC and non-OPEC stop the oil price?
Ontario’s gas shortage a symptom of infrastructure problem
No manipulation found in Calif. crude prices
The peak oil crisis: CERA Week 2007
Why would anybody hold a future-of-energy conference today and paper over the issue of oil depletion which looms larger with each passing day? The answer may be simpler than it seems.
CERA’s peak oil critique has a credibility problem
CERA’s arguments about peak oil are showing a few chinks in the armor.
Why the precautionary principle doesn’t cut both ways
Applying the precautionary principle to the economy misses the point. Environmental regulation may indeed retard economic activity. But that damage, if it occurs, is different in kind from the damage our technology and numbers inflict on the biosphere every day. One may lead to a transient loss of wealth; the other may lead to a colossal loss of human life and of the very civilization we have built.
CERA Conference – Feb 17
Big Oil frets over rising costs, tough access
Ex-oil minister dis on Iraq oil
Big Oil sees big risks as it places big bets
Oil Industry – Feb 15
Oil E&P costs increase 53% in two years
Belarus hikes Russian oil transit fees
US Governor wants $1.50 per barrel oil tax
Price of oil heading into swoon: investment firm
US OK’s new oil reserve site
Peak oil – Feb 15
Chevron exec: Running out of oil may not be the issue
CERA’s Jackson:
Peak oil theory could distort energy policy and debate
Aubrey Meyer on the confluence of peak oil and climate change
UK Environment Research Agency – no peak pil strategy
More from Big Oil – Feb 15
Big Oil’s hot air show on global warming
Exxon cautions against rapid action on GHGs
Risks from oil nationalism “unacceptable”
