BP spill: what the locals are doing
The ruined Louisiana marshes remain off limits, but locals gather at a fund-raiser in New Orleans’ Vaughan’s Bar and work out what they can do, as the oil spreads ever eastwards
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Peak oil notes – July 8
A mid-week update of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Deepwater Horizon
Another anxious plea to recognize limits
The current generation will not escape the consequences of rising energy and material resource costs. An appealing but superannuated ideology keeps the public in the dark. More light!
Strike one … you’re out?
It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way. The industrialized world was supposed to have time to prepare alternatives to oil. Or so goes the mainstream story.
Population growth must stop
Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day…Resource scarcities, especially oil, are likely to limit future economic growth; the demographic transition that has accompanied economic growth in the past may not be possible for many nations today.
The spill and you
The blogosphere overfloweth with indignation and facts and advice for third-persons regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. So let’s get personal instead. Consider for a moment the various ways which WE (that would be you and me) might choose to relate to it. Ready?
Oil spill media crackdown – 6 July
-Photographer Briefly Detained by Police Near BP’s Texas City Refinery
-The BP/Government police state
-Media, boaters could face criminal penalties by entering oil cleanup ‘safety zone’
Electric refueling: Doing the math
Oilbama and what passes for a green movement talk breezily of “clean energy,” as if the only thing blocking a rapid and thorough transition to an alt-energy economy is oil-industry corruption and political indecision. In the misleading verbiage of such false prophets, you never get any details. Why not? Because the facts are entirely contrary to the promises.
Peak oil, coal, and supplies – 6 July (updated 7 July)
-Science and The Gulf Spill – Scientists Gauge The Impact of Oil
-Saudi Arabia’s real energy problem(s)
-What happens when coal is gone?
-Saudi’s Announcement
Peak oil review – July 5
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Deepwater Horizon
-China
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
The CSIRO and the myth of progress
Busting the myth of progress is a precursor to changing industrial civilisations’ current unsustainable path.
EIA’s first Peak Oil statement—how was their vision a decade ago?
Back in 2000, the EIA developed their first power-point presentation covering the topic of peak oil. A version of it was presented by EIA Administrator Jay Hakes to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists…What was the EIA’s rationale at the time? How has their view held up a decade later?
