Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Without any press conferences, grand announcements, or hyperbolic advertising campaigns, the Exxon Mobil Corporation, one of the world’s largest publicly owned petroleum companies, has quietly joined the ranks of those who are predicting an impending plateau in non-OPEC oil production. Their report, The Outlook for Energy: A 2030 View, forecasts a peak in just five years.
Heinberg and others who subscribe to the peak oil theory… believe that once the peak is crossed, the supply of oil will be outstripped by demand, and our petroleum-based industrial civilization, with no other plentiful cheap energy source readily at hand, will inevitably collapse. The only question is how hard the fall will be.
The Cost of Energy is a new grassroots energy education web site from American Lou Grinzo that is outlining the issues (and the jargon!) in an approachable question and answer format. We asked Lou to outline his starting assumptions and provide some background on the project and himself.
It is 42 inches wide, 1,090 miles long and is intended to save the West from relying on Middle Eastern oil. Nothing has been allowed to stand in its way – and it finally opens today
Mr Anderson says the world could reach peak production of oil and gas far sooner than predicted because of the rapid increase in energy demands in China. “We are using stored energy left over from ages gone by at an alarming rate and it isn’t re-making,” he said.
A definite trend is afoot. What we can call The Convergence of America is just ahead. It will not be as in the past, but more in spirit as we grapple with the loss of petroleum and the end of economic growth. Rather than as a nationalistic single entity, we will come together in the knowledge that our separate and equal, diverse bioregions are our real homelands.
In my long career of concern over oil pollution — from my days of serving the oil industry, to fighting it, to predicting the imminent end of abundant supply — I have never been as exhilarated as now to think that a change is in the wind. [Report on conversation between Lundberg and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett]
Over the next week, you will read dispatches from around the world and across Canada on how this change is reshaping business and how the energy industry is responding.
In total, we’ve assigned 13 reporters and columnists, four graphic artists and six photographers to explore the transformation.
[An introduction to the Globe and Mail’s series, with a schedule of upcoming articles]
BBC Online are holding a poll on which story readers want to see more coverage of.
In Lisbon, Portugal during May 19-20th 300 people gathered from around the world to discuss the inevitable. The title of the event was the 4th International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion. This was a meeting of the Peak Oil community.
The Community Solution examines the impact of Peak Oil on the world economic structure, one built on the confidence in ever-expanding markets fueled by technology, itself fueled by oil.
Day three of a seven day series on Peak Oil by Canada’s Globe and Mail, investigating ‘what awaits the world as the reserves dry up’. Many articles already.
The world’s thirst is not sustainable as experts predict an imminent decline and fall in oil production. In this seven-day series, the Globe investigates what awaits the world as the reserves dry up.
Ed: BIGGEST COVERAGE OF PEAK OIL YET in a mainstream publication. More than a dozen articles appear on the first day of the series.
