The Right to Pursue Powerdown: Seeking alternative lifestyles post-peak

Throughout history most societies have spawned groups within them that chose not to follow the norms and dictates of the mainstream society of which they were a part. Very often it is religious differences of some type that set these groups apart, e.g. Quakers, Shakers, Mennonites, Amish, Doukhobors, Acadians, Huguenots, Mormons, Christians in the Roman […]

Russia Sets Deadline for Sakhalin-2 Repairs

Russia has set a deadline of Feb. 1 for Shell’s Sakhalin-2 project to repair environmental damage or face the loss of its operating licenses, the Ria-Novosti news agency said citing a Russian federal agency. Twelve licenses permitting work upon water were suspended on environmental grounds on Dec. 7. The head of Russia’s Water Resources Agency […]

Another world is possible … but how?

In several discussions over the past months within the Great Transition Initiative, there has been an issue lurking that is rarely discussed explicitly. That is, is a global crisis necessary to motivate a great transition into a future of enriched lives, human solidarity and a healthy planet? At GTI, we often refer to the …I […]

FT: Bush urged to break US oil dependence

The Bush administration should act decisively to break AmericaThe bipartisan group, which includes the chief executives of Fedex, UPS, Dow Chemicals and some of America

Solar panels compulsory in Spain

A building code makes solar panels compulsory on all new and renovated buildings in Spain. Solar panels are compulsory on all new and renovated buildings in Spain as part of a building code that became mandatory in October. Spain is the first European country to require solar power in restoration and construction projects. The EU […]

Call(ing) on OPEC

As OPEC ministers gather in Nigeria on Thursday, December 14 to discuss whether they should cut production further, many people are voicing their opinions. Recently, both the U.S. Secretary of Energy and the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) called on OPEC to refrain from further cuts in production quotas. While the price […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: EIA – The greatest failure of them all?

For those of you who don’t follow such things, there exists down on Independence Avenue a semi-autonomous little organization known as the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Created by Congress back in 1977, its mission As we all know various parts of our federal government have had some rough times lately. Remember how the FBI reacted […]

Experts Says US Barrier Islands Could Disappear

A dramatic rise of sea levels by the end of the century could wipe out some of America’s barrier islands off its eastern and southern coasts, researchers said on Tuesday. “Barrier islands may really look quite different in the future for our children’s children,” Laura Moore of Oberlin College’s geology department told the fall meeting […]

Climate Change Affecting Outermost Atmosphere Of Earth

Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth’s outermost atmosphere by 2017, according to a team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and The Pennsylvania State University (PSU). The research, which appears in the latest issue of Geophysical Research […]

Newly rich Asians to treble greenhouse gas emissions in 25 years: study

MANILA (AFP) – Fast-rising family incomes and brisk demand for cars will treble Asia’s greenhouse gas emissions over the next 25 years, according to a study backed by the Asian Development Bank. The report, “Energy Efficiency and Climate Change: Considerations for On-Road Transport in Asia,” presents one of the first comprehensive analyses of the relationships […]

Satellites weigh Africa’s water

Africa has experienced a significant drying in the past three years, new satellite data reveals. The volume of water lost from the land amounts to 334 cubic km, which is almost as much as all Africans have consumed over the period. The data comes from Nasa spacecraft that can detect changes in gravity caused by […]

IEA warns Russia may stunt region’s oil sector

Russia’s attempts to increase its control over oil and gas assets may impede production growth in former Soviet Union countries including Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. Geopolitical factors and slow access to infrastructure may limit former Soviet Union states’ contribution to growth in oil output, the IEA said in its monthly […]

Nationalism is added to the oil mix

Tension in the Middle East and demand from the roaring economies of India and China have already caused the price of oil to surge this decade. Now, the oil market has a new force to reckon with: nationalism. Oil-producing countries are seizing domestic resources that were once shared with international oil companies, bolstering national corporate […]

Global warming threatens Alpine ski resorts

Global warming poses a serious threat to Alpine ski resorts and the regional economies that depend on them, especially in Germany. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which carried out a study of ski areas across the Alps, said Wednesday the mountain chain was “particularly sensitive” to climate change. “Recent warming there has been […]

Tech firm pushes ‘free energy’ claims

A controversial technology company this week reiterated a series of audacious claims that have outraged scientists around the world.Sean McCarthy, the chief executive of Steorn, told an audience in London that the company had already produced a prototype which ran independently for four weeks. He also claimed to have built another motor using the system […]

Gas dispute threatens Belarus, Georgia

Russia is preparing to cut off natural gas supplies to neighbouring Belarus and Georgia unless the two former Soviet republics agree by the year-end to pay much higher prices in 2007.Action against Belarus could affect supplies to Poland and Germany since a transit pipeline runs across the republic, though it carries only a third of […]

Energy Also Fuels Japan’s FTA Drive

Japan is accelerating its drive toward free-trade agreements (FTAs) with trading partners. To be sure, this Japanese move is being largely fueled by an intensifying rivalry with China over leadership in regional economic integration. But it is also being prompted by growing energy security concerns amid increasingly tough global competition for oil, gas and other […]

European Energy Strategy for Ukraine

by Dr. Sergiy Korsunsky, Director-General of the Economic Department, Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The reality is such that the EU is relatively poor in conventional energy reserves. Therefore Europe’s economic future depends on a secure, affordable and sustainable energy supply. But to achieve this goal it is no longer adequate to assure simple physical availability […]

UK: Calls for action against misleading ‘green’ energy claims

Consumer groups last night called for action to be taken against Britain’s household energy suppliers who make misleading and confusing environmental claims. Companies such as British Gas, ScottishPower, and Scottish and Southern Energy entice customers to sign up to their services by claiming that, by paying or agreeing to “a green tariff”, they are giving […]

Oil giant rejects

Exxon Mobil on Tuesday lined up solidly against dfw

Solar-Powered Hydrogen Generation

Researchers in Switzerland have demonstrated more-efficient water-splitting solar cells based on a cheap, abundant, and long-lasting material: rust. The advance could lead to a cheap and energy-efficient way to generate hydrogen for fuel-cell vehicles using solar energy. technologyreview

Shell takes step towards goal of increasing in-situ oilsands production

Shell Canada Ltd. (TSX:SHC) has filed a regulatory application to expand its oilsands project in the Peace River area of Alberta to 100,000 barrels per day from the current 12,000 barrels per day. news1130

Fusion scientist revives magnetic mirror machine with cool new idea

Since the development of the hydrogen bomb in the physorg

Russia Could Top World Bank ‘05 List for Gas Waste

Russia, the world’s top natural gas exporter, was likely the world’s biggest producer in 2005 of natural gas flaring — which wastes energy and contributes to global warming — the World Bank’s global gas flaring reduction partnership (GGFR) said on Wednesday. planetark

New controls on publishing research worry US gov. geological unit’s scientists

The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, who study everything from caribou mating to global warming, subjecting them to controls on research that might go against official policy. iht washingtonpost

US staying the course for Big Oil in Iraq

Washington at large and President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in particular may apply every contortionist trick in the geopolitical book to save their skins in Iraq – and the reasons are not entirely political. atimes

Chevron’s Brazil Output May Grow to 110,000 Bbl/Day

Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, may produce up to 110,000 barrels a day in Brazil by 2015, an amount equal to 4 percent of its current output. bloomberg

In Russia, A Secretive Force Widens

On Nov. 15, the Russian Interior Ministry and Gazprom, the state-controlled energy giant, announced three new senior appointments. Oleg Safonov was named a deputy head of the ministry. Yevgeny Shkolov became head of its economic security department. And Valery Golubev was appointed a deputy chief executive at Gazprom. All three men had something important in […]

REC to Build World’s Biggest Solar Plant in Norway

Renewable Energy Corporation will build the world’s biggest solar energy equipment plant in its Heroeya facility in southwestern Norway for 2.5 billion Norwegian crowns (US$407.8 million). planetark

The answer, my Hebridean friend, is blowing in the wind

We cannot tilt against the best renewable source The objection was heartfelt He chose a bad day to protest. Even as he spoke, environmentalists were digesting the latest doomsday prediction on global warming. The Arctic, they said, is melting so fast that within the next 30 years the North Pole will have lost its icecap; […]

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