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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.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
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.
Scotlands friends in the north
Gasoline Rationing Finally Comes to Iran
Oil Boom, Politics Shape Africa’s Future
Over 50 links to Oil Drum articles from the past year are provided which combined provide a comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding peak oil and energy decline. (Great resource.)
Online documents from Australian PO & GW conference
Conference interview
Russian oil exports fall
North Sea output continues to drop despite record investment
Oil- A decade past
Energy security in Trinidad & Tobago
TOD Canada energy news roundup
The American Petroleum Institute have funded a survey that reportedly shows a “fundamental lack of knowledge regarding energy demand and supplies”. Closer inspection suggests a distinct agenda behind the obvious flaws in the APIs twenty questions.
