United States – Aug 6
Energy policy per American Petroleum Institute
Energy bill adopted by House requires utilities to use renewables
Candidate Dodd on energy & the environment
Oil
Peak Oil – Aug 5
Peak Oil Passnotes: To Sir [David King] With love
Peak oil – expensive food
Do your part to destroy the Earth
TOD Round-Up: August 3rd 2007
More peak oil – Aug 5
Deffeyes on the NPC report
Vancouver Sun: Get ready for oil supplies to dwindle, experts warn (Aleklett and more)
The World Energy Modeling Project
Review: A Thousand Barrels a Second
Oil sector’s big issue now delivery, not discovery
Energy industry – Aug 4
Alaska’s addiction (oil industry influence)
Oil firms’ buybacks pump up criticism
Peak oil and what it means to the petroleum industry
Growing risk: the payback (gas market)
Oil & geopolitics – Aug 3
Review: Linda McQuaig’s It’s the Crude, Dude
Kazakhstan turns the screw on foreign investors
Good news from Baghdad at last: the oil law has stalled
Edwards, Obama, Richardson and Clinton on energy
Which of the major Democratic party candidates has the best energy platform? A comparison based on what I could find on their websites and some interviews.
Peak oil – Aug 2
Interview with Jean Laherrère
The incredible disappearing 140 Tcf of Canadian gas
Astyk:
How to explain peak oil to anyone
Fuelhard
Review: The Last Oil Shock
Ask not for whom The wind blows…
Tensions around North Pole hydrocarbons raise the specter of new (bitter) Cold War.
The technological problems of drafting arctic oil and gas into human service have not even been solved, the ecological fallout of this course of action hardly addressed, but already huge sums of money are committed for grabbing control and potential revenues.
Russia – Aug 2
Russia cuts August Black Sea crude exports, maintains Baltic
Pay $456m now or we cut your gas, Gazprom warns Belarus
Russia plants flag on North Pole seabed
Gazprom hopes for major Arctic hydrocarbon discoveries
Permaculture and peak oil – Aug 1
David Holmgren on peak oil, energy descent and permaculture (video)
Online permaculture talks: “The Era of Post Carbon Transition”
Is this a false alarm?
Rebuttal to many of the common arguments against peak oil. Includes: why this is not like 1970s, impact of higher prices, improved technology, Canadian oil sands, oil shale, Jack 2 field, Acrtic National Wild Life Reserve, and other questions.
What about the poor?
Peak oil is an issue for most developing countries only insofar as they are suffering even more now than they already were. This is one of the many reasons why there’s no ASPO-Uganda. It’s becoming long past peak for the poor, so let’s hope they can reorganize their local economies to replace something most of them never had much of to begin with — oil & gas products.
