Europe – July 10
Has fossil fuel consumption within the EU peaked?
Why Europe backpedals on biofuel targets
Boris Johnson scraps congestion charge for 4×4 vehicles
Britain teeters on brink of recession as companies cut back
Politics
Renewables – July 10
Decoding the world’s best Energy policies
Roundtable discussion: Outlook for renewable energy (podcast)
Ray Brady at BLM on “solar rights-of-way (video)
Climate & Environment – July 10
A deal on climate change – but then the backlash
The art of embarrassment: bring back the dunce’s cap?
Water pollution, supply issues top environmental concern in China (video and transcript)
Peak oil and the Olduvai catastrophe: is there a link?
The Olduvai Theory is about the declining total world energy supplies and the catastrophic consequences. Peak Oil is a more confined thesis about oil supply declining due to the looming exhaustion of oil reserves in the ground. So Olduvai addresses all energy sources, but Peak Oil is only about one of the energy sources – oil.
In a recent article (Leigh, 2008), I failed to explain the Olduvai and Peak Oil relationship fully and clearly, and I would like to do so in this brief article. So what is the relationship between Olduvai and Peak Oil? Indeed, is there one at all?
Africa – July 9
Gambia: Biofuel – A ploy, says President Jammeh
Nigeria: Yar’Adua seeks concerted efforts against trade in stolen oil
Nigeria: Nationwide blackout: PHCN begins power rationing today
Peak oil – July 9
Ian Dunlop of ASPO-Australia on “Insight”
ASPO’s Bell says world must adjust to higher oil prices – video
A critical review of IEA’s oil demand forecast for China
Prices & supplies – July 9
Are We in the peak of an oil bubble?
Are big bets by speculators driving up oil?
Oil majors: Oil price hike due to fundamentals, not speculation
Analyzing the analysts (Part 1 of 2)
Oil: the new reality
United States & Canada – July 9
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind
Is it safe now to admit Jimmy Carter was right?
Oilsands image fight targets U.S. politicians
Labour’s plan for dealing with high energy prices
Ex-EPA aide tells of White House censorship
In energy, there are no easy answers
Biofuels – July 9
Bad juice: World Bank blames biofuels for high food prices
Bad juice II: biofuels maybe not quite so bad, World Bank says
Rising food prices: policy options and World Bank response
Trucking protests – July 9
Protesting truckers bring chaos to New Zealand city streets
German truckers plan to join world fuel-price protests
Truckies threaten two-week strike
Peak toil
Peak toil: A fable of the future?
It’s happening in Belgium, Scotland, and Spain, in India, South Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Italy, Portugal, Greece, France…
What might we expect from the average working-class American, as economics in this country continue to worsen? Will they organize in labor unions or protest as isolated individuals expressing their individual sense of hopelessness and despair? Will it be sparked by some “organized” movement, or from some shift in their internal emotional reality? Frank Lee gives his future fantasy version of what he sees could be coming, and folks, it isn’t pretty…Kathy McMahon
Asia – July 8
Japan sees a chance to promote its energy-frugal ways
Various measures to tackle Korea’s soaring energy costs
South Korea sets fuel-saving measures
Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up
