Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
IEA WEO 2008 – Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) to the rescue?
IEA WEO 2008: Long term prospects for coal production
Interview of Richard Heinberg by Dr. Helen Caldicott
Aleklett on Mercedes – Chrysler and peak oil
Peak oil still relevant? More than ever.
There is a growing consensus among those who follow such things, that the new high of world oil production (87.9 million barrels a day) reached last July is likely to go down in history as the all-time peak.
A weekly digest from a UK perspective.
Energy Department, change is coming
Obama quietly drops windfall tax proposal
A sad day for Canada
Our continued national dependence on fossil fuels is creating a crippling vulnerability to both long-term fuel scarcity and catastrophic climate change.
The current economic crisis requires substantial national policy shifts and enormous new government injections of capital into the economy. This provides an opportunity for a project whose scope would otherwise be inconceivable: a large-scale, coordinated energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.
David Strahan on the IEA report
The 2008 IEA WEO – Renewable Energy
Cheap oil: short-term good, long-term dangerous
Rocky Top (Albert Bates interview)
A weekly update including:
– Prices continue to fall
– Bailing out Detroit
Iraq: The Thirteenth Hour
‘2025’ Report: A World of Resource Strife
Syria hit by double blow on oil prices and falling supplies
Charley Maxwell interview
IEA WEO 2008 – Fossil fuel ultimates and CO2 emissions scenarios
World oil forecasts using Wikipedia megaprojects, Dec 2008
Court of Appeals judge: The bell tolls for hydrocarbons: what’s next?
The War on Carbon Heats Up Globally, but Strategies for Change Remain Local
James L. Jones’ energy views worry some environmentalists
Youth Embarrassed By U.S. Delegation at Climate Conference
British Petroleum ranks as one of the lead members of the peak oil denial club. ASPO’s Colin Campbell and Kjell Aleklett both took BP to task for recent comments slamming the peak oil perspective, even denying its validity.
A lot of readers are twanging on me for refraining to castigate President-elect Obama for deeds yet undone. They’re discouraged by the advisors and cabinet sectetaries he’s picked, ostensibly because the crew coming in are Washington “insiders,” meaning they can’t possibly see or do things differently.
My own starting point for this is the belief that in the years just ahead any sociopolitical entity organized at the giant scale will flounder — this includes everything from the federal government to global corporations to factory farms to centralized high schools to national retail chains. So even expecting Mr. Obama’s government to act effectively may be asking too much in a situation that will require mostly local action…
