Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-Investors add spice to rising food prices
-God, Keynes, and Clean Energy
-Peak Autos: America’s Love Affair with the Automobile May Be Coming to an End
-Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth
-What Can We Learn from Gift Economies?
-Shell forced into oil sands U-turn
-IEA to Meet CFTC, OPEC, Banks on Curbing Speculation
-Clueless about oil prices
-Team of Rivals
A midweek roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Venezuela
-Davos – Global Energy Outlook
-Davos 2010: a new peak in oil production is needed, energy leaders argue
-Conflicting views over ‘peak oil’
-UK Government Classifies Eco Activists as ‘Extremists’ Alongside Al Qaeda
-UK call for European CAP farming subsidies reform
-Moorlands and hills targeted to grow crops for biomass and biofuels
The plans to build the politically and environmentally controversial Nord Stream pipeline have been in the air since 1997. With Finland and Sweden finally saying “yes” to the pipeline in their waters, the wheels of construction are now in full speed with the first line to be opened in the 2011. This will bring relief to Europe that is struggling with energy supply–yet not everyone is a winner.
Absent from the meeting was any representation from our political leadership who are currently busy: 1) denying there is a problem; 2) trying to spend our way out of the recession; or 3) simply overcome by the pace of events and do not want to rock the boat by speaking publically on such matters before the next election.
-Obama pushes jobs after tough year
-Obama to Party: Don’t ‘Run for the Hills’
-Barack Obama commits to climate change bill
-Sanctions, regime change take center stage
-Sarkozy seeks a new order and throws down gauntlet to China
-Davos 2010: Sarkozy calls for revamp of capitalism
-Sarkozy’s Unpragmatic Vision
-Davos 2010: Barclays’ Bob Diamond attacks Obama’s banking plans
-Davos Dialog Will Downplay Carbon, Talk Up Energy And Infrastructure
-King calls for ‘radical’ banking reform in UK
-Bankers Return to Davos With a Bit Less Swagger
Natural gas prices continue their recovery. Cold weather has caused high levels of space heating that have resulted in reduced gas storage inventories. Henry Hub spot prices have recovered from their September $2.18 low to an average price of $5.56/MMbtu in the week ending January 22, 2010 (Figure 1). The average daily spot price for 2009 was $3.95/MMbtu…
-Must-read report: The decline of Central Appalachian coal
-How Anti-Immigration Groups Are Hijacking the Environmental Movement
-If Corporations Were Human
