Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The move to alternative sources of heat will put pressure on the remaining forests in North America . This transition will also threaten the climate and air quality as coal-burning expands, and it could push grain prices higher as homeowners compete for increasingly scarce grain to feed grain-burning furnaces. Electricity may also become a source of heat, potentially threatening the electrical grid.
Abundant clean energy in your backyard: natural gas discoveries in US
Eni: Oil majors must rethink business
Oil majors forced to accept tough terms
Shell, Exxon face higher costs on carbon limits
Russian oil drop may be inflating prices
Weak dollar hits the poor
Why new oil price highs?
Surge in NG price stoked by new global trade
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Surge in NG price stoked by new global trade
Pickens reverses position to bet on higher oil prices
Monbiot piqued by peak oil planning (UK’s lack of)
Peak and ye shall find – it doesn’t have to be so bad
Billions of barrels of oil may lie under Northern Plains
There’s gas in those hills (Pennsylvania)
The lost decade – pessimism about oil technology
The natural gas storage cycle
Platts: Depletion of oil reserves outpaces new production
Biofuels lifecycle assessment,
We live in a finite world, and we are reaching limits in many ways – easy to extract oil is being exhausted, fresh water is in increasingly short supply, and climate change caused by human activity is becoming more of an issue. Because of these constraints, it is likely that economic growth will stagnate and eventually decline. [Transcript of a talk]
The question of just how much longer Canada will continue pouring so much of their national heritage into U.S. gas tanks has been in the news lately and deserves some consideration.
UK natural gas prices, already at historically high levels, set to rise
Monbiot: Carbon capture turning out to be another great green scam
Brown shouldn’t deny the potency of climate change
Blair to lead climate campaign
Standard criticised for ‘alarmist’ Heathrow story
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Natural Gas
– $100 Oil and the Economy
– $57 Oil?
– Energy Briefs
Russia reduces NG to Ukraine by a quarter
Russia emerging as a global economic giant
Russian Feb oil exports slump, output stagnates
