Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The literature on Liquid Fuel Emergencies is considerable, dating back to rationing during World War Two. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) in the USA did some exceptional work for two decades (1975- 1994). Unfortunately, there have been relatively few studies during the past 15 years, with the notable exceptions of the comprehensive analysis by Alan Smart for the Government of Australia and Kathy’s research in the USA.
-Using Waste, Swedish City Cuts Its Fossil Fuel Use
-Africa mulls biofuels as land grab fears grow
-Biomass – a burning issue
-EU plans to tackle unwanted impacts of biofuels
-Cornell to develop algal biofuels
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The IEA’s Oil Market Report
-Forecasts
-US gasoline prices
-Managing China’s Economy
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs
– Oil giants squeeze Chávez as Venezuela struggles
– WikiLeaks climate change cables: the unanswered questions
– Wikileaks: U.S. turned the pope into its enforcer on Copenhagen climate talks
– What the Chevron-Kazak Cellphone Row Reveals About Big Oil Overseas
Oil reached a two year high above $90/barrel this week before falling back on mixed economic news. A growing list of analysts including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are now forecasting prices above $100/barrel in 2011…
– Shell boasts it has infiltrated Nigerian government
– WikiLeaks climate change cables
– Wikileaks Reveals Hushed Concern Over Tar Sands Oil in US State Dept.
– Bolivian Ambassador Pablo Solón Responds to Secret U.S. Manipulation of Climate Talks
– WikiLeaks: oil deal executive ‘was paid £46,000 a month’
A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
-Nigeria
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the Global Economy
-OPEC’s spare capacity
-Asia
-Offshore Drilling
-Briefs
-Quote of the week
The Obama administration announced this week that it has reversed its decision to open up new leases in areas of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast. The intention to lift the moratorium which had been in place since 2006 was made weeks before the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. See the recent UKITPOES paper for more on the likely impact of the Gulf of Mexico disaster on oil production…
-Secrecy of Fracking Chemicals Takes Beltway Spotlight
-Hydraulic Fracturing in the Spotlight
-US natural gas drilling boom linked to pollution and social strife – with video
-NY shale gas moratorium is a win-win
– Special report: How BP’s oil spill costs could double
– A Scramble for the Arctic
– Leaked cables reveal Saudi minister of petroleum helped craft toothless Copenhagen climate accord
– The Truth About the Risks to Freshwater Aquifers Posed by Underground Carbon Sequestration
A response to a response that Dmitry Orlov has also chimed in on. The immanent end of Western industrial civilization–the Industrial Growth Society–isn’t equivalent to collapse. I tend to think of collapse as something bad. Western civ is causing collapse in many areas, such as with the rampant biodiversity loss that’s breaking numerous links in the food chain, so I find it difficult to put it in the category of collapse.
