Clock Ticking On Global Oil Supply

June 19, 2007 (RFE/RL) — The debate over how much readily accessible oil remains on Earth has been revived with the release of a new report that suggests there is enough to last about 40 years. But critics say British Petroleum’s 2007 “Statistical Review Of World Energy,” released this month, is far too optimistic. In […]

Burning the Planet to Fill Your Fuel Tank

Cellulosic ethanol another chimerical climate “solution” that furthers biological homogenization and ecological collapse Humanity’s epitaph may well read “Much Potential, but Cut and Burnt Themselves to Death”. Nearly every environmental crisis can be traced to burning hydrocarbons for energy, and cutting and clearing vegetation for a variety of reasons. Sadly, even as climate change awareness […]

Vivoleum! ‘Oilmen’ Propose Burning People for Fuel

Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at GO-EXPO, Canada’s largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta, today. The speech was billed beforehand by the GO-EXPO organizers as the major highlight of this year’s conference, which had 20,000 attendees. In it, […]

China building more power plants

China is now building about two power stations every week, the top climate change official at the UK Foreign Office, John Ashton, has said. He said there was no point blaming China for rising global CO2 emissions. Rich nations had to set an example of low-carbon development for China to follow, Mr Ashton told the […]

Peak Oil in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management

This journal was published in February 2007 and comments on the relocalisation work of the Boulder Valley Crisis Preparedness Group and the effect Peak Oil may have on such endeavours Most of the information in the journal article appears to be sourced from http://www.boulderrelocalization.org/ and http://www.ilankelman.org/relocalisation.html The journal concludes that from the perspective of disaster […]

As glaciers melt and rivers dry up, coal-fired power stations multiply

In the last six years, the Chinese coal industry, with reserves put at more than 1 trillion tonnes, has doubled production to more than 1.2bn tonnes a year. The country is now building 550 coal-fired power stations – opening at the equivalent of two a week – and in the five years to 2005, electricity […]

Russian stocks: reasons to get in and to stay out

Russia’s stock market, a star performer in 2006, has been selling off this year, hurt by uncertainty ahead of the presidential elections, a glut of IPOs and overexposure to the underperforming oil and gas sector. marketwatch

Red hot energy prices ignite acquisition fever in Canada’s oil patch

With world oil prices hovering at near nine-month highs and global energy firms flush with cash, analysts are predicting that control of Canada’s booming oil sands sector could soon fall into foreign hands. Foreign bids worth tens of billion dollars are expected in the coming years as global oil companies look for new opportunities, say […]

Nuclear War Warnings!

In the New York Times Letters to the Editors on June 17, Norman D. Carter of Poughkeepsie, New York wrote this: “I worked on the Manhattan Project as a chemical engineer during World War Two and the total destruction of the bomb is still with me every day. Unfortunately, the true terror is almost incomprehensible. […]

World Clean Energy Awards Highlight Best Energy Projects

The very first World Clean Energy Awards have been presented (via GreenBiz). The Swiss transatlantic21 association drew up the program for the World Clean Energy Awards. The following individuals were honoured at the 2007 ceremony: environmentalleader

OPEC Solicits Industrial Nations to Ensure Future Demand for Oil

OPEC has raised the question of ensuring future demand for oil, especially with the announcement of plans by member states to invest tens of billions of dollars to provide additional oil production capacity. The warning coincides with the plans of OPEC states to invest more than $200 billion in new oil projects till 2020, to […]

Gasoline Could Hit $5 a Gallon as Big Oil Scales Back Expansions

Analysts say that the move to cut back on refinery expansions could drive gasoline prices as high as $5.00 per gallon over the next few years. So with consumer anger at an all time high, why would oil companies be willing to make such a move? Well, you can thank the United States government for […]

What’s creating a buzz in oilsands circles

Canada’s oil and gas producers told their stories to hundreds of institutional investors from across the globe yesterday during the first day of an investment symposium organized by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers in Calgary. Following are some of the points of interest that were creating a buzz: – EnCana Corp.: EnCana will look […]

Panel Supports Tax Breaks for Coal and Non-Oil Fuel

The Senate Finance Committee approved $28 billion in tax breaks on Tuesday to underwrite renewable fuels and nytimes

Germany piles pressure on Britain over EU

Germany today turns the pressure on Gordon Brown over the EU constitution by warning that Europe’s battles against climate change and illegal immigration depend on national leaders having the courage to cede more power to Brussels. In an article for The Daily Telegraph, Wolfgang Ischinger, Germany’s ambassador to London, says Berlin is watching the handover […]

Future Shock: End of the Oil Age (video)

In Future Shock: End of the Oil Age, RTE’s Chief Economic Correspondent George Lee brings us to the heart of one of the biggest challenges that Ireland faces in the future – life after Peak Oil. Peak Oil refers to a point in time when, with remaining reserves beginning to diminish, world oil production will […]

Biofuels Brain Bank

Ten people with different stakes in the future of biofuels weigh in on the latest developments, challenges and controversies surrounding the industry.

Des Moines Register

Desalination ‘not the solution’

Turning salt water into drinking water is not a solution to tackle global water scarcity, the WWF has said. A report by the environmental group said a growth in the energy intensive technology would increase emissions and damage coastal and river habitats. BBC

China overtakes US as world’s biggest CO2 emitter

China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show. The surprising announcement will increase anxiety about China’s growing role in driving man-made global warming and will pile pressure onto world politicians to agree a new global agreement on climate change that includes […]

Government to launch carbon calculator [UK]

Every person in Britain will soon be able to work out how much they are contributing to global warming using an official Government “calculator”. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is launching a website tool on Wednesday that will allow everybody to work out their carbon emissions, according to factors such as […]

The fragile planet: Thoughts of a green prophet

When the history of environmentalism is definitively written, one theme above all others, which Professor Commoner helped to shape, will stand out: the realisation, so long in coming for humankind, that the earth is finite. For millennia, there had been the assumption that the planet was limitless, and we could plunder its natural resources, from […]

Gazprom bid to cut off China gas

Russian energy giant Gazprom has asked the government to cancel an agreement to pipe large quantities of gas to China from fields in Siberia. Alexander Ananenkov, the group’s deputy chief executive, said plans to deliver 80bn cubic metres of gas a year to China would leave Russia short. BBC

Vatican’s ‘driving commandments’

The document warns that driving can bring out “primitive” behaviour in motorists, including “cursing, blasphemy, loss of sense of responsibility”. It says that automobiles can be “an occasion of sin” – particularly when they are used for dangerous overtaking or for prostitution. Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the Vatican’s council, said it was important to […]

Put brakes on pricey plans to convert coal to car fuel

Now that food prices are jumping in part because so much of the nation’s corn crop is being diverted to ethanol production, the latest bright idea in Washington is to turn coal into car fuels. The idea has surface appeal. The United States has more than a quarter of the world’s coal reserves, making it […]

Opposing view: Industry needs jump-start

More energy is stored in America’s vast coal reserves than in all of the Middle East’s oil. Yet we continue to import more oil from hostile nations when we could be using our own abundant coal to fuel cars, trucks and airplanes with coal-to-liquid fuels. The technology to produce liquid fuel from coal is proven. […]

The future of hydrocarbons: Hubbert’s peak or a plateau?

Due to economics, science, technology, and the increased manufacturing of hydrocarbons from sources other than oil, the world’s production of oil and gas in the twenty-first century will not peak sharply but will plateau or gradually decline. The scenario presented here places us among the optimists. Data used in this paper come mostly from the […]

Chevron’s Nigeria Oil Output Down 42,000 bpd After Attack

Chevron Corp. (CVX) has cut oil output from Nigeria by 42,000 barrels a day following an invasion of its Abiteye flow station, Reuters news agency said Monday. Earlier, Chevron Nigeria Ltd., operator of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company/Chevron Joint Venture, confirmed a group of 20 armed youths invaded the station Sunday. “The situation is currently […]

Power cuts spark riots in Pakistan’s biggest city

Karachi (AP): Youths rampaged through Pakistan’s biggest city overnight, torching a police booth and erecting blazing barricades to protest 10-hour power cuts – a fresh headache for the government of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Electricity shortages have struck much of Pakistan just as temperatures top 40 degrees Celsius, forcing businesses to close or throw away […]

Lobbies stymie action on energy

WASHINGTON – Three powerful lobbying forces The issues have been the focus of intense lobbying by the coal industry, electric utilities heavily dependent on coal, and by automobile manufacturers trying to block new fuel economy requirements from Washington and in a dozen states. In an effort to move ahead with an energy bill in the […]

ATLANTA – It Consumer watchdog groups warn that the temperature hike could end up costing consumers between 3 and 9 cents a gallon at the pump. The effect could cost U.S. drivers more than $1.5 billion in the summertime, including $228 million to drivers in California alone, according to the House Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, […]

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