ODAC Newsletter – Feb 6
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
Natural Gas Glut Could Hit US
Oil Sector Braces For Wider Fallout Of Low Crude Price
Oil players stockpile cheap crude on tankers
Endangered Electricity System: The Potential of Microgrids
In this edition of The Reality Report host Jason Bradford interviews Nate Hagens. Topics in this program highlight how the current financial melt down and impact the timing and severity of peak oil and natural gas–including the dreaded “natural gas cliff” as rigs go idle due to low prices. We discuss whether this means economic growth now over, and if so, how should societies adjust?
Prospects for constructing a pipeline that would make Europe less dependent on Russian gas and Gazprom’s disputes with Ukraine seem only marginally better after the conference.
Another Confirmation of Oil Depletion
Over the Cliff for Natural Gas in North America?
Coal in South Asia
This Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project is the latest film from Colorado-based Tiroir a Films. This sequel to their 2006 offering, Energy Crossroads: The Burning Need to Change Course, looks to dig deeper into how the concurrent processes of resource depletion, climate change, ecosystem destruction and our consumption-oriented economic model are threatening to destroy both our planet and possibly our very civilization. I would say in large part that it succeeds.
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective
Iceland’s coalition struggles to survive protests
Renewing Renewables
Lessons from the Russian Gas Dispute
Today the second three-day world future energy summit began in Abu Dhabi. One of the biggest energy conference in the world that is being attended by key policy makers, financiers, leading academics and no less than 400 journalists from all over the world. The conference was opened by the Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange and the Netherlands…
A weekly update from a UK perspective
Cheap oil not here to stay: Ex-Talisman CEO
Ukrainian Natural Gas Crisis Drags On
Russia Proposes Energy Summit in Moscow to Resolve Gas Dispute
A mid-week update on peak oil, featuring:
– Prices continute to slip
– OPEC keeps trying