Peak oil – May 4
Houston Chronicle: Plateau
Oil is expensive because oil is scarce
Oil giants signal retreat on renewables
The cost of keeping the economy afloat on oil
Oil crisis of the 70s back to haunt us
Renewable Energy
United States – May 4
McCain clarifies remark about oil, Iraq war
Corn ethanol loses more support
Who benefits most from farm bill
Montana’s luxury community of “conscience”
Oil industry – May 2
Exxon profit soars, production falls
Lower oil production is the real story
Shell lambasted for pulling out of world’s biggest wind farm
Peak oil quotes
Peak oil – May 2
Lawmaker to Minn. governor: What happens at the end of oil?
Mass. Governor: We’re “at the end of the age of fossil fuels”
Ottawa Citizen: Peak oil won’t wait for city planners
Heinberg and Van Jones: The future of energy
Biofuels – May 2
U.S. eyes shift away from corn ethanol
Scientists advise halt to biofuels
Women farmers threatened by biofuels
Wheat, corn and ethanol fight for acres
United States & Canada – May 2
Thomas Friedman: Dumb as we wanna be
Lawmakers forced to give up gas-guzzlers
National security requires oil security plan
Canada: Ethanol to get green light
BC’s Liberals deserve prize for climate of secrecy
Surprises – May 1
Shell ditches renewable stake amid fears of a retreat to carbons
Nuclear’s CO2 cost ‘will climb’
Rockefellers call for change at Exxon Mobil
How wind turbines are subsidized by fossil fuels
Biofuels – Apr 30
Biotech bets on agrofuels
Colbert on ethanol and the energy war
Reuters: Cuba’s Fidel Castro warned of food crisis a year ago
Renewables – Apr 30
X Prize: $100 million for clean fuels
Feed-in tariffs to encourage renewable energy
TOD: the energy return of (industrial) solar
Under-road radiators may beat the ice
Geopolitics – Apr 28
New arms race – centered around energy & resources
James Woolsey, hybrid hawk
Renewables – Apr 27
World’s largest solar farm set for California
Trade war brewing over US biofuel subsidies
Climate & envrionment – Apr 25
Pine beetles may affect climate change
Up the Yangtze: documentary on impact of Three Gorges Dam
Three planetary futures: Reno, Cairo, Nanisivik
