Energy industries – Oct 8
Is clean coal feasible?
Documenting ravages of big oil in Ecuador
Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote story of Aramco in 1955
Oil
China’s coming shift to regional trade
China realizes how vulnerable its export-driven economy has become, and is setting itself up as the powerhouse in a post-peak oil regional economy.
Peak oil – Oct 8
Jad Mouawad (NYT): Quest for new energy supplies is becoming tougher
Talisman’s retired contrarian on PO
The coming oil crunch
UK energy white paper: an academic critique
China’s net oil imports up 18 percent
ODAC News
Energy industry – Oct 6
Where has all The oil gone?! (speculators)
Ecuador plans to extend control over oil industry
Russian oligarchs go on safari for fuel
Energy analysis – Oct 6
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists special: Getting power to the people
Review: Zoom
Innovation cheaper than oil
Stupid to the Last Drop: It’s not just Alberta, it’s the whole country
Peak oil – Oct 6
New ASPO newsletter for October
Peak oil in the media
Radio interview with Jan Lundberg
Charles Hall: Peak oil in 90 minutes
Where peak oil is wrong
Peak oil: Alternatives, renewables and impacts
Movie review: Escape from Suburbia
“Escape” comes from the director who in 2004 brought us “The End of Suburbia”, which has likely been seen at least once by every card-carrying Peak Oilist. Instead of focusing on the dire situation, “Escape” focuses on possible courses of action.
Peak oil – Oct 5
What can the commodity market tell us about peak oil?
Steve Andrews on upcoming Houston ASPO conference
Book Review: Heinberg’s Peak Everything
Jeff Rubin: OPEC’s growing call on itself
Energy Round-Up from TOD:Canada
Energy industry – Oct 5
Rising costs, shortages curb rush to cash in on oil boom
Engineer shortage hampers oil, gas production
Big Oil not kidding about pulling out of Alberta
Doomsday: Alberta stands accused
United States – Oct 5
Forget your silver bullet (unconventional fuels)
Lawmakers to Pentagon: Plan for climate change
Big Coal tries to recruit military to kindle a market
Air Force pursuing CTL fuel plant
The peak oil crisis: On contemplating $100 oil
The Wall Street Journal’s bold conclusion that we can handle $100 “quite well” may be perfectly true, until you ask “then what?” and the only possible answer is higher and higher prices.
Limits to growth and the Hedberg conference
The Hedberg meeting brought together the world’s experts on the future oil supply. Unfortunately, no one from the peak oil research community was invited to attend. Representatives of government organizations, the world’s oil companies, consultancies and independent geologists shared their proprietary data to assess what our oil future is, and thereby examine the peak oil question. …The good news about the Hedberg conference results is the recognition of limits to growth in future oil production, a recognition that is absent in EIA forecasts.
