Podcast – Kunstler: When Energy Demand Exceeds Supply

Impacts on Transportation and Cities On April 19th, 2006, the University of Winnipeg, Centre for Sustainable Transportation, and the Institute of Urban Studies, presented a symposium and free public lecture featuring James Howard Kunstler, author of “The Long Emergency”. We bring you highlights from James Howard Kunstler’s speech at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg, […]

Movie’s Waterville debut spurs activists

…Thus among the participants in Friday’s fair will be the Alaska Coalition, a group dedicated to protecting Alaska’s wild public land, and Waterville’s Peak Oil group, a collection of people convinced that the planet has entered the downward slope of world oil production. Sanborn said the Peak Oil group, which advocates replacing oil with alternative […]

Chaos as fuel prices shoot up in Zanzibar

A deep misunderstanding has erupted within Zanzibar The decision has led to bitter exchange of words between commuters and bus crews because the new rates have not been officially announced and that they are unreasonable as they are charged irrespective of the distance covered. “If you don

Carnegie Mellon: Solution to Energy Crisis Could be Found Down on the Farm

Carnegie Mellon University researchers say the use of switchgrass, a perennial tall grass used as forage for livestock, could help break U.S. dependence on fossil fuels and curb costly transportation costs. “Our report indicates the time is right for America to begin a transition to ethanol derived from switchgrass,” said Scott Matthews, an assistant professor […]

Saudi to add 500,000 bpd oil by mid-

RIYADH The contract has been converted from a cost reimbursable basis to speed up the work. “The drive behind the strategy was the demanding schedule that required the project to be completed by June 2007,” Saudi Aramco said in a statement on its website. The Peninsula (Qatar)

Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Refinery Emission Standards

A coalition of national and community environmental groups has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to overturn a new rule that allegedly allows refineries and other industrial plants to emit higher levels of noxious chemicals when starting up, shutting down and experiencing equipment malfunctions, without informing area residents. The groups filed suit in the U.S. […]

Ethanol gets pricier but could plummet next year

Ethanol prices are hitting record levels this week, adding to the cost of gasoline as the nation heads into the peak vacation driving season. A gallon of ethanol was going for as much as $5.75 on East Coast spot markets, more than double the $2.54 that it fetched as recently as three months ago, says […]

UK has tough choices, Brown says

Chancellor Gordon Brown has praised the state of the economy but warned that difficult choices lie ahead if Britain is to continue to prosper. In his annual Mansion House address, Mr Brown warned that clinging to the past would be “fundamentally wrong”. Instead the UK must look to change its pension, transport, infrastructure, energy and […]

Russia initiates SCO energy club

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to set up an energy club within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, voiced at the SCO summit in Shanghai, has been met with alarm in the West. Concerns have been expressed that a gas analogue of OPEC may appear in the East. There are reasons to believe this is true. The […]

Urban ‘Oasis’ of clean energy lands in London

A giant eco-friendly “tree” that looks like it might have landed from another planet is offering urban dwellers and visitors an escape from the heat and stress of city streets. Designed by London architect Laurie Chetwood, the 35-foot-tall structure — called London Oasis — looks like a tree. It has a wind turbine on top […]

‘Ceyhan to be an Energy Supermarket’

The Turkish government initiated the Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline project, transferring Caspian and Russian oil from Samsun to Ceyhan, to protect Turkey’s straits from the dangerous oil tanker traffic that threatens Istanbul.According to foreign ministry sources, who discussed Turkey’s energy policy and the BTC pipeline to be opened on July 13, the BTC will strengthen Turkey’s geopolitical […]

BP to fund energy biosciences institute

As part of its continuing drive to find longer term commercial alternatives to oil and gas, BP is to fund radical research aimed at probing the emerging secrets of bioscience and applying them to the production of new and cleaner energy, principally fuels for road transport. The company plans to spend $500m over the next […]

Heat-seeking sheep pave way for roads that generate energy

Roads and driveways could be turned into huge solar panels to heat houses and offices using an invention inspired by sheep on the west coast of Scotland. An Ullapool company will tomorrow install the first road energy system in the UK in its own car park. The system takes advantage of heat absorbed by tarmac, […]

High oil prices remain a major challenge

What would be the issues and challenges facing the world economy this year? Datuk Seri dr Lim Wee Chai , Executive Chairman and CEO Top Glove Corp Bhd, Malysia: One of our main concerns is the rising price of crude oil. This has indirectly affected the world economy, as the dependence on crude oil is […]

EU-US beef up cooperation on energy

Among a large host of issues the EU US summit backed new enhanced energy dialogue to promote cooperation on climate change, energy security and cleaner technologies.The issue of energy is covered by a separate chapter in the summit declaration. It establishes the “EU-U.S. High Level Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development”. Among […]

EU in doubt over alternatives to oil

Biofuels, natural gas, hydrogen… None of the candidates to replace oil in vehicles are entirely convincing at the moment, according to the Commission which says it lacks a long-term vision supported by carmakers and the oil industry.Speaking at a conference on “future energy sources for transport” in Brussels, Fabrizio Barbaso, Deputy Director General at the […]

Wen Rolls Out ‘Win-Win’ Strategy in Africa

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s extensive tour of Africa this week — part of Beijing’s quest to secure future energy supplies and raw materials for the country’s economy, is also being used as a platform to advance China’s foreign policy orientation on the continent and elsewhere in the developing world. “It is one-sided or wrong to […]

Iraq: Oil and the Next Conflagration

While the insurgency continues to take center stage in Iraq, divvying up oil revenues remains a back-burner issue. This will not last indefinitely. The Kurds may have a number of constitutional guarantees to their oil possessions in the north, but it is only a matter of time before the oil issue develops into Iraq’s next […]

Does Peak Oil Really Matter?

Does it really matter that the United States has 2 trillion barrels worth of recoverable oil shale resting in the shadow of the Rockies? Not anytime soon it doesn’t. Before you spit out your coffee, let me explain. (If I’m too late, I apologize.) In terms of the long run – we’re talking decades here […]

A New OPEC in the Making?

Steps by the world’s top gas producers — with Russia indisputably in the lead — “may lead to the creation of a gas suppliers’ alliance that will be more effective and influential than OPEC,” Yazev said. themoscowtimes

Device Burns Fuel with Almost Zero Emissions

Georgia Tech researchers have created a new combustor (combustion chamber where fuel is burned to power an engine or gas turbine) designed to burn fuel in a wide range of devices ― with next to no emission of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO), two of the primary causes of air pollution. The device […]

China’s first foray into Russian oil

Sinopec made China’s first foray into Russian oil on Tuesday by buying a mid-sized unit of BP’s Russian vehicle TNK-BP. But state-owned oil firm Rosneft said it could buy half of Sinopec’s Russian assets, cementing the Government’s grip on the energy industry. btimes

Methane emissions twice official level – study

The UK’s emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane are nearly double what the government says they are, according to a global audit of methane emissions. The study, which looked at how much methane is released into the air rather than extrapolating from known sources such as landfill sites, suggests that Britain’s actual contribution is […]

California sets “clean energy” oil tax on ballot

Californians will vote in November on a ballot measure proposing a constitutional amendment that would tax oil production to fund a range of alternative energy efforts, Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said on Wednesday. The initiative’s supporters gathered 1,143,365 signatures, qualifying it for the ballot, McPherson’s office said. Supporters — led by Californians For Clean […]

Chevron hopes to almost double oil production in Nigeria

Chevron Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of US oil firm ChevronTexaco said it hoped to almost double production over the next two years. “As at today, we produce 400,000 barrels per day. We hope to increase to between 600,000 and 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) in a couple of years,” the company’s new managing director, Frederick […]

Bodman: U.S. Must Diversify Energy

(MarketWatch) — With global oil demand skyrocketing, the United States faces energy shortages and higher prices if it fails to look beyond its traditional Middle East suppliers, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Wednesday. “We need not only diversity of different types of energy, but we need diversity of the places from which you import in […]

Secretary of Energy Appoints Hydrogen Technical Advisory Committee

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has announced the members of the Department of Energy greencarcongress

Hydrogen Here and Now in the Heartland of Oil

Moving to the heart of the oil industry, Hydrogen Expo US organizer Freesen & Partner GmbH anticipates a growing interest from exhibitors and attendees. Under the theme “Hydrogen Here and Now” the most important showcase for the hydrogen and fuel cells industry will be held on March 19 to 21, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas, […]

Lovelock’s Folly – A Book Review by Albert Bates

Transition Culture – Albert Bates, still the presenter of the single most inspiring talk I ever attended (Findhorn 1995, GEN conference, for any speech nerds out thereTransition Culture

Megaprojects Analysis Explained

EnergyBulletin.net – Chris Skrebowski is the editor of the UK Petroleum Review. Most famously he tracks oil production capacity growth from large projects scheduled to come online in the near future, and compares that to known global depletion rates, to see how projected oil production will compare with growing demand, or indeed when oil looks […]

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