Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Arab-South America summit in Brasilia may herald the start of a new diplomatic circle. Central to that could be a new geo-political axis, an axis of non-aligned oil interests. Some of the countries attending the summit are leading players in the world of oil and energy.
A two hour radio show featuring an interview with Julian Darley of the Post Carbon Institute and a presentation on the ‘New Agrarianism’ from the First National Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions by Charles Stevens.
Nuclear waste is an unsolved problem, plant meltdowns are themselves environmentally disastrous, and nuclear material can be used to nefarious and horrifying ends. But if we see climate change as the No. 1 environmental emergency, nuclear energy must, at least, be given a fair hearing. Thus, despite the fact that contemplating it makes me feel like Dick Cheney, we will return to this fissile topic anon.
A goal of mine has been to contact individuals in
various positions that may have first hand information that may shed more light on the energy situation. Today was one of those days. I had an interesting discussion with a senior level executive of one of this country’s reputable energy firms.
A number of unpublished agreements purportedly signed between the governments of Ukraine and Turkmenistan for the purchase of natural gas have inflamed the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow over natural-gas deliveries from Turkmenistan.
Seats at the LNG supply table for California are dominated by the high rollers of the oil business and if you are not at the table then you are not in the game.
The California Public Utilities Commission, charged with protecting California ratepayers and implementing a sensible state energy plan, is about to deliver ratepayers into the hands of oil companies wanting to hook the state into a dependency on expensive, imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) that comes at the end of a long supply chain over which Californians have no control.
The Gorgon project involves far more than just the development of an isolated, deepwater, sour gas reservoir on an ‘A’ class nature reserve. There’s a secret agenda, says Martin Hastings, the subterranean storage/disposal of approximately 5 million tonnes a year of CO2 into an underground aquifer.
Many govenments around the world are pushing carbon sequestration as the panacea to global warming. Deeper analysis shows that economic realty will push most economies towards a nuclear solution – the only problem of which is – what to do with the waste.
The $11 billion Gorgon gas project, off the West Australia coast, moved a step closer yesterday with project partner Shell saying it had finalised the sale of 2.5 million tonnes of Gorgon LNG (liquefied natural gas) a year to the US west coast.
Report from a regional thinktank, concluding that exporting natural gas is not the best strategic option for the Arab World.
A bad program with serious design flaws is threatening to crash the whole energy system. Do we choose to fix it or not?
