Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Recently, Dr. Robert Hirsch wrote an article titled “Peak oil – what do we do now?”. This brief but content-laden article opined that Peak Oil was essentially past tense, and it correctly implied that little mitigation has taken place, to date…but notably missing was any mention of natural gas.
With the decline in rig counts, a shortage of natural gas may come much sooner than you might think.
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Non OPEC-12 Oil Production Peaked in 2004
“A Farm for the Future”… essential viewing
Sovereign wealth eyes move into commodities, oil
Are Reserves of the Largest US Coal Field Overstated by 50%?
Energy Security First (Canada)
This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of “Energy Limits to Growth,” a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Greenspan backs bank nationalisation
Obama unlikely to wade into oil sands debate
Canadian protesters urge Obama to shun oil sands
Watching Republicans grieve
EnCana to sell Deep Panuke natural gas production from NS to Repsol
Egyptian Workers Strike against Fertilizer Export to Israel
David King: Iraq was the first ‘resource war’ of the century
Russian gas imports to Korea start in April
Crude Impact and The Tyranny of Oil
“After Peak Oil” conference at Johns Hopkins March 12
Crude Cassandra (Forbes covers Simmons)
Take Peak Oil seriously – it’ll be here much sooner than you think
Threat of gas price rise as reserves run dry
Weekly round up from a UK perspective.
If an economic system is built on myths that aim to defy the laws of physics and ecology we should not be surprised to see it fail. Perhaps we can use this crisis to begin asking the right questions and redesign with human needs and planetary realities in mind. The Reality Report interviews Professor Joshua Farley of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.
In this show, Jason Bradford and Professor Michael Klare discuss the geopolitics of resource competition. Nations are engaging in a dangerous zero sum game as they jostle over finite supplies of fossil fuels, including the positioning of opposing advanced weapons systems in unstable parts of the world.
