NEU World Order 2 Free Album Released, Kicking Against Globalization

NEU World Order 2 continues the unique mix of garage rock vs activism with this latest release for 2007. The new album features Aaron Russo, Michael Parenti, Greg Palast, David Korten, John Turmel, Tom Kennedy, Alex Jones and material from Stephanie Black’s documentary ‘Life and Debt.’ It is primarily focused on Economics, Usury and Institutional […]

Political Peak Oil

One thing stands in the way of secure and abundant supplies of oil: Government Petroleum geologists are pretty sure that there is more than enough oil in the world to meet projected demand for at least the next 25 years. In other words, as I reported in my article That

Nuclear agency head dismissed for lapses

WASHINGTON – Tens of millions of dollars and repeated security reviews haven’t stopped embarrassing security breakdowns in the government’s nuclear weapons program “I have decided it is time for new leadership at the NNSA,” Bodman said in announcing that the agency’s chief, Linton Brooks, would resign within the month. Brooks, a former ambassador and arms […]

Democrats want to shift oil tax

Plan would cut oil incentives, boost federal royalties, give to green energy WASHINGTON – House Democrats are crafting an energy package that would roll back billions of dollars worth of oil drilling incentives, raise billions more by boosting federal royalties paid by oil and gas companies for offshore production, and plow the money into new […]

Norway 2007 Oil Output to Drop 5.6 Percent

(Bloomberg) — Norway’s oil output will drop by about 5.6 percent this year as companies such as Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro ASA struggle to make up for dwindling North Sea output, the nation’s petroleum directorate said. The nation will pump an estimated 129 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent, or 2.2 million barrels […]

Zimbabwe: ZESA Workers Strike, Cut Off Power Supplies

ZESA Holdings workers yesterday downed tools demanding a salary increase of more than 1 000 percent and expressed their anger by disconnecting consumers in the central business district, mostly shops and takeaways. The workers reported for duty yesterday but did not work arguing that the 144 percent increment offered by management was “too little”.AllAfrica

IEA’s New Head Says He Will `Avoid Confrontation,’ Help OPEC

The International Energy Agency will avoid confrontation with OPEC and help oil-rich nations cut dependence on earnings from crude, the agency’s next executive director said. “Confrontation won’t resolve anything,” said Nobuo Tanaka, 56, a former Japanese diplomat who has been chosen to replace Frenchman Claude Mandil in September 2007. “Dialogue will help the two sides […]

UK: Calls for more spending on renewable energy

The government must put more money into renewable energy if it is to stand any chance of meeting its target of getting 20 percent of its energy from those sources by 2020, industry associations said on Friday. The British Wind Energy Association and the Renewable Energy Association in their submissions on proposed reform of the […]

Europe lays out plan to tackle energy dilemma — but…

will governments and consumers balk? An energy crunch that chokes fuel supplies, dims the lights at homes and workplaces, and ravages Western economies may no longer be the stuff of 1970s history books. It could be a vision of the near future. The 1970s oil crisis gave Western countries a glimpse of what life is […]

China Turns Mekong Into Oil-Shipping Route

As energy hungry China turns the ecologically fragile Mekong river into an oil-shipping route, green activists and environmentalists in South-east Asia worry that spillages could destroy the livelihoods of millions of people residing along the lower reaches of the region’s largest waterway.‘’The whole deal was done in secrecy with no information released to the public […]

India against bringing oil assets under state control

India today said it would not follow the Russian model of ‘Resource Nationalisation’ as confining oil and gas reserves to public sector can breed inefficiencies through sub-optimal utilisation of resources. In most of the Gulf nations, state-run firms own and operate oil and gas fields. Russia, which had allowed global energy giants to look for […]

Russia, Belarus say oil row won’t hit Europe supply

Russia and Belarus promised on Thursday to keep pumping oil to Europe, after Minsk slapped a duty on transit shipments of Russian crude in a trade dispute that has shaken the ex-Soviet states’ strategic alliance.U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack criticized both sides, saying Belarus was “trying to keep their skim” by using the duty […]

Fuel Cell Power Plants That Run on Renewable Fuel Fit into Linde’s Global Strate

FuelCell Energy, Inc. (NasdaqNM:FCEL), a leading manufacturer of ultra-clean and efficient electric power generation plants for commercial and industrial customers, today announced formation of a marketing and distribution agreement with The Linde Group, a EUR 12 billion worldwide market leader in industrial gases and engineering with business in over 70 countries around the globe. Under […]

Collapse of civilisations linked to monsoon changes

The downfall of the one of the greatest Chinese dynasties may have been catalysed by severe changes in climate. The same climate changes may have simultaneously led to the end of the Maya civilisation depicted in Mel Gibson’s new film Apocalypto. So says Gerald Haug of the GeoForschungsZentrum in Germany and colleagues, who studied geological […]

Space Elevator

Can we build a 22,000-mile-high cable to transport cargo and people into space? Physicist and space-elevator visionary Brad Edwards describes the many benefits we’d enjoy. pbs

EXCLUSIVE: IRAN WAR ‘IN 2YRS’

A WAR against Iran could be launched within the next two years, a senior adviser to George Bush warned last night. CIA specialist on Iran Reuel Marc Gerecht said there had been a “tidal shift” of opinion towards military action, especially in Israel. mirror

U.S. and German Leaders Explore Climate Cooperation

Climate change and energy efficiency were high on the agenda today as President George W. Bush hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House. The two leaders pledged to work closely together in this new year, which marks the beginning of Germany’s presidency of both the European Union and the Group of Eight industrialized […]

Independence Day: Toward Energy Self-Sufficiency

As our energy supplies decline and environmental challenges escalate, we can expect that our energy networks – our fueling stations, electrical grid, and natural gas pipes – may become less reliable than they are today. Currently, our buildings and transportation systems are extremely brittle and susceptible to energy instability. raisethehammer

Peak oil isn’t bad for everyone

While some energy companies are worried about dwindling reserves, Schlumberger Ltd (NYSE: SLB) stands to gain enormously as oil and gas become harder to find. bloggingstocks

Energy: That’s oil, folks…

Both sides issue regular, well-referenced reports that come to opposite conclusions on whether the world is running out of oil. “There’s just no middle ground,” says Kenneth Deffeyes, a geologist who has retired from Princeton University in New Jersey, and is a leading supporter of the peak-oil theory. His personal belief is that we are […]

Energy corridor designation falls behind schedule

The designation of thousands of miles of mtstandard

GM Picks Hybrid Battery Partners

GM wants to double the fuel efficiency of the SUV and has committed to lithium ion batteries as the technology of choice. GM has contracted with two competing research teams — Johnson Controls/Saft Advanced Power Solutions and Cobasys/A123Systems — to develop a battery system for its future Saturn Vue Green Line plug-in hybrid. Testing will […]

Fort Lewis College to host ASPO’s Steve Andrews.

On Tuesday, January 9, at Fort Lewis College, Noble Hall Room 125 from 7-9pm, Southwest Colorado Renewable Energy Society and Fort Lewis College Environmental Center will present a free talk by Steve Andrews entitled Fort Lewis College

Ukraine survives despite gas price hike

KIEV, Ukraine – The warnings in Ukraine verged on the apocalyptic when Russia sharply raised prices for natural gas a year ago. Many feared factories would close, leading to mass layoffs and grinding industry to a halt. But Ukraine’s economy leaped ahead, its businesses quickly adapting to the higher costs. Now that other former Soviet […]

The Oil Drum: Peak Oil Salvation?

As we start off 2007, it seemed helpful to list the oil producing countries that Oil Drum readers might keep an eye on, both in this and future years. Often, the global production curve is presented in an undifferentiated way or is divided between OPEC and non-OPEC countries (as with the EIA). Other standard data […]

Fuelling a Food Crisis: The impact of peak oil on food security

Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes Introduction

Himalaya’s receding glaciers suffer neglect

Scientists monitor only a few of India’s vital glaciers, which are receding by as much as 100 feet each year. NEW DELHI In the Himalayas, the Gangotri Glacier, one of India’s largest, is entitled to an even more dubious distinction. Recent studies reveal that the Gangotri, which forms a mass of ice about 18 miles […]

Gazprom’s Growing Tentacles

Natural resources juggernaut Gazprom has scored yet another victory in its gas pricing war, gaining 50 percent of the Belarusian pipeline network. The deal demonstrates Gazprom’s ruthlessness in securing power over neighboring former Soviet satellite states and raises questions about how reliable the Russian company is as an energy supplier to western Europe. It was […]

Quebec Sees the Energy Tide Turn

MONTREAL, QUEBEC: Here in the normally frigid climes of Canada, the snow is melting. I arrived here last week to celebrate the dawn of 2007 in North America’s French metropolis, and amid the cheerful soirees and greetings of “bonne annee!” I learned just how pivotal energy is to this unique corner of the continent. Canada […]

Save the Humans!

It is no exaggeration to say that we are facing the largest human crisis since at least the nuclear arms race. Of course, instead of building up nuclear warheads, we are building up carbon dioxide. But because global warming is a slow, drawn out affair, we are the proverbial sedentary frog in the warming pot. […]

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