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Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary The 11th Hour is a valuable film and everyone who can get to a theater should go and see it. A more personal treatment of the same ground can be found in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
Petroleos de Venezuela to convert accounts away from dollars
Greenspan clarifies Iraq war, oil link
Iraq oil reality vs the NY Times
Wesley Clark: The next war
Shortfalls in Russian oil deliveries to Germany
Author and economist F. William Engdahl has just made a surprising turnabout on peak oil. He now supports the idea of the abiotic origin of petroleum. (Excerpts from interviews and past articles.)
Former Shell chairman: Oil industry ‘sleepwalking into crisis’
Interview with Lord Oxburgh (full version)
Malthus and Mein Kampf come to Cork
ASPO’s Stuart McCarthy on peak oil hitting the Australian mainstream
Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
U.S. court backs states’ measures to cut emissions
Hopes dim for measures to conserve energy
Energy independence is a myth
Bartlett: We need political pioneers, not the glacier flag-planting types
NY Times: Compromise on oil law in Iraq seems to be collapsing
Naomi Klein: Why failure is the new face of success
Michael Klare on the internal war for control of Iraq’s oil
Iraq: New U.S. Base – Wasit
On Tuesday, Oil Ministers from the OPEC countries gathered in Vienna to decide on production levels. It turned out one of the more remarkable meetings that OPEC has held in recent years.
Chris Skrebowski on record high oil price
Oil closes above $80 a barrel for first time
Traders doubt OPEC’s ability to boost output
Bodman: $80/barrel prices are `troublesome’
Forget about fundamentals, this is the oil market after all
Shell CEO: “psychology” behind high oil prices
OPEC realignment reflects oil supply reality
OPEC says $80 oil won’t last due to `fundamentals’
Oil: A slippery (upward) slope
CNN on peak oil
Not black and white
Queensland govt warns of `peak oil’ chaos
Andrew McNamara: Wartime mentality needed
NPC report presented to Houston petroleum engineers
Peak oil and the energy supply curve
Canada TOD round-up
Declining net oil exports vs “near record high” oil inventories: What’s going on?
ODAC News
Many people in the peak oil movement cling to the hope that technological innovation can make up for the end of the age of cheap abundant oil. Is this hope as plausible as it seems?
On Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th of September, Cork, Ireland hosts the sixth annual international conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).
ASPO-USA’s 3rd annual World Oil Conference will take place in Houston, Texas, on October 17-20, and consists of four days of high-level energy discussions on the peak and decline of global oil production.
