Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The International Energy Agency, the intergovernmental energy watchdog, has been going in overdrive lately. Now we have a disquieting interview in Le Monde, the big French daily, with Claude Mandil, the head of the Agency, who pulls no punches, despite an apparent denial of “peak oil.”
Play peak oil before you live it
U.K. Parliament members form peak oil group
Net oil exports and the “Iron Triangle”
ODAC News
Energieagentur schlägt Alarm
Feeling peaky (a peaknik in all but name)
Fuel rules soak soap makers
Could jatropha be a biofuel panacea?
Brazilian ethanol ‘slaves’ freed in raid on plantation
The case for turning crops into fuel
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
BBC: Oil supplies ‘face more pressure’
IEA sees oil supply crunch looming
IEA predicts shortages within 5 years
IEA’s Medium-term oil markets report (online)
Simmons:’Real risk’ gas pumps run dry this summer
Shell CEO says conservation isn’t enough
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) influential Medium Term Oil Market Report comes close to saying that we are near peak oil, defined as “the world is running out of cheap oil.” Excerpts from Salon, the Telegraph, the online IEA report, an earlier interview with the IEA’s Fatih Birol, and other articles in the media.
The rising and falling power of hydrocarbon states
Developing nations lock up more resources
Britain slashes reliance on Mideast oil
Australia increasingly dependent on ME oil
Oil sands no quick fix as Big Oil leaves Venezuela
Black gold’s tarnish seen in Canada
Global warming threatens alternative-oil projects
Its Time For Albertans To Draw A Line In The (Tar) Sand
Leaks from NPC report on peak oil: “Accumulating risks to world energy supply”
Non-OPEC peak oil threat receding
Canadian energy round-up
A peak oil tale
Subsidizing gasoline prices — wherever or however it occurs — amounts to throwing away a precious, finite resource with no regard for the consequences that will surely follow. Events in Iran now illustrate the foolishness of this kind of behavior. Can we take home the right lesson from Iran’s experience?
North Sea is running too dry to meet target
Iraq oil legislation advances
Iran, low on gasoline, to be supplied by Venezuela
Venezuela’s oil nationalization tests Chinese oil companies
Oil-rich Nigeria short on fuel
Interview with permaculture expert Robyn Francis in New South Wales, Australia, about the evolution of farming, peak oil and hope for the future.
