Summit of American Nations Opens to Address Energy Concerns

The Organization of American States has opened its 37th general assembly to address concerns over energy supplies and the need to develop alternative forms of energy. In Panama City, VOA’s Brian Wagner reports that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attended the opening session to pledge the support of the world body.Speaking to delegates, U.N. Secretary General […]

Vatican auditorium’s roof to be covered with PV cells

Some of the Holy See buildings will start using solar energy, reflecting Pope Benedict XVI’s worry about squandering the Earth’s resources, said a Vatican engineer who came up with the idea. The roof of the Paul VI auditorium will be redone next year, with its cement panels replaced with photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into […]

China’s Axis of Oil

China obtains 50% of its imported oil and gas from the Middle East. Iran and Saudi Arabia alone account for over 30% of the oil portion of this. In return, the Gulf States have been sinking more and more of their petrodollars into China and throughout Asia. Historically, this money would have been destined for […]

It’s time to stop doing nothing about oil depletion

Have you noticed that grocery prices have increased drastically in the last two years since Katrina drove gas prices up? If the price of gasoline keeps rising, what will happen to the cost of everything else that depends on petroleum? It’s hard to think of anything that we use that doesn’t depend in some way […]

Abu Dhabi’s green move gathers pace

The UAE’s response to global warming begins at home. Last month the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) launched a $5 billion initiative to establish the world’s first totally green city in Abu Dhabi.The development extending over six square kil-ometres plans to achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions and zero waste and includes plans to invest […]

Ecuador launches campaign to keep oil underground

Ecuador offered on Tuesday to drop plans to develop the country’s biggest oilfield if wealthy nations pay it to safeguard pristine land near the proposed drill site. Leftist President Rafael Correa hopes developed countries and environmental groups will pay the poor South American nation about $350 million annually to leave the oil in the ground […]

Green Motorboats in Northern Ontario

This summer, boaters on the Lake of the Woods will be discussing something else – a new ethanol blend gasoline is available in the local marinas. Boaters must add common sense to the mixture, and will benefit from knowing the follwoing basic principles in ethanol boat engine management. Fuel Ghoul

Trouble at The Pump

The Pentagon foresees a two-front threat to national security: global instability spurred by climate change and a crippling dependence on oil. America’s economic dependence on foreign oil isn’t exactly news. Nor is the idea that such dependence undermines our national security. President Dwight D. Eisenhower worried in the 1950s that if the nation imported more […]

The Energy Report for Tuesday, June 5, 2007

…As a well known long time oil bull many people assume that I am a believer in the Peak Oil theory. That at some point we would be at an oil production peak and we will soon run out. Peak oil is almost a religion among its believers and they are as devoted to it […]

Saudi Arabian Oil Facilities – The Achilles Heel of the Western Economy

A successful attack on Abqaiq or another major Saudi oil facility will send shockwaves through world energy markets, impacting severely the economies of Western countries. Al‐Qaeda and the Oil Target Saudi Arabia’s Islamist Insurgency The Global Implications of Large Scale Attacks on Saudi Oil Facilities Al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia: A Chronology Jamestown.org (PDF)

More than one-third of Zimbabweans face food shortages

…”While drought devastated crops in many areas, Zimbabwe’s overall production was also hampered by insufficient fertilizer, fuel and tractors, and by the country’s crumbling irrigation system,” said Henri Josserand, Chief of FAO’s Global Information and Early Warning System. “Most importantly, uneconomic prices set by the government have discouraged many farmers from producing surplus cereals for […]

ARMY Energy Security Considerations

ARMY Energy Security Considerations Slide Show – April 26, 2007

U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (PDF)

Canadas’s Oil, N.G. and TarSands vs Climate Change

Slide Presentation by Gordon Laxer – Parkland Inst. May 4-5, 2007 Univ. Alberta

University of Alberta (PDF)

GM CEO: Alternatives to gas needed

Wagoner hypes green efforts at annual meeting but argues against tougher mileage rules; greenhouse gas proposal defeated. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors Chairman Rick Wagoner told company shareholders Tuesday that moving away from gasoline-powered cars is crucial for the company’s long-term business prospects, although he argued tougher government regulations on mileage requirements are not […]

U.S. economy’s fate in Saudi hands

Saudi Arabia is running the U.S. economy. I’m not sure the Saudis want the task, but they’ve got it. Because the United States still doesn’t have a national energy policy, we’ve thrown decisions about how fast our economy grows and whether our standard of living rises or falls into the hands of Saudi Arabia’s oil […]

Oman braces for powerful cyclone

MUSCAT, Oman (AP) — A cyclone expected to be the strongest storm ever recorded in the Arabian Peninsula churned toward the oil-rich Gulf on Tuesday, forcing thousands of residents of Oman’s coastal towns to flee their homes. Its affect on the region’s oil installations was unclear with the storm expected to skirt or lose strength […]

Honda Decides to Stop Making Hybrid Accords

Honda will discontinue the hybrid version of its Accord sedans, the company said Tuesday, ceding Toyota’s dominance of the market with its Prius hybrid. Honda Motor Co., Japan’s No. 2 automaker, will continue to make gas-and-electric models of its Civic sedan, but stop offering the hybrid Accord with the new model expected to go on […]

Manufacturing our way out of overshoot

Humans have constructed a civilization that is based upon the profligate use of fuels and resources, and we have done so by harnessing the power of manufacturing. William Catton Jr. first used the term This concern might seem counterintuitive, since it is exactly the manufacturing sector that has caused such environmental calamity. But the manufacturing […]

Uranium May Reach $200 in Two Years

(Bloomberg) — Uranium spot prices may reach $200 a pound within the next two years, buoyed by a shortfall in supply and increasing investment in the nuclear fuel by speculators, said Macquarie Bank Ltd., Australia’s biggest securities firm. The price, which reached $125 a pound in mid-May, will probably average $125 a pound this year, […]

Iraqi oil workers strike over proposed law

BASRA, Iraq, June 5 Iraqi oil workers, marginalized while a law to govern the oil is drafted and debated, are firing a warning shot by going on strike. The Iraqi Pipelines Union released a statement Monday that it shut down two 14-inch oil and gas products pipelines inside the country in protest against the law […]

Five Little-known Tips For Getting Better Gas Mileage

On a recent drive to work, Philip Reed was able to boost his car’s gas mileage by almost 25 percent. Reed, tracking the Honda’s gas efficiency with an onboard computer, credited his fuel savings to the fact that he left earlier for work, thus avoiding morning congestion and the stop-and-start traffic that wastes fuel. As […]

Uganda Outgrows Its Electricity Supply

KAMPALA, Uganda – Samuel Kizito gives his business a month before it goes belly-up. Uganda, once one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa, is suffering through a power crisis that makes doing business here difficult, expensive, and , for Kizito, at least , not worth the trouble. Kizito said his blanket manufacturing company, which employs […]

Can you afford $20 per gallon?

The answer is Peak Oil. The question is what will make $3 a gallon gas seem like the good old days. In the early ’70s a geologist working for the oil companies, King Hubbert was his name, predicted that in the early years of 2000 world oil production would peak (it has, at 84 million […]

The Oil Drum: Cyclone Gonu Coverage, Day 2

Exclusive–Must credit THE OIL DRUM and Chuck Watson of KAC/UCF. KAC/UCF and Chuck Watson are forecasting, based on their damage models, that the Qalhat (Sur) LNG terminal will be out for 20-30 days and the Mina al Fahal oil terminal will be down for 10-15 days–all of this assuming they are built to US standards.Much […]

OPEC needs to boost 2nd-half output: EIA

OPEC will need to boost its output in the second half of 2007 to meet winter heating demand, but it’s too late for the producers’ group to have much impact on U.S. oil supplies this summer, the U.S. government’s top energy forecaster told Reuters on Monday. “We see a need for OPEC to produce more […]

Airlines Seen Having to Buff Up Green Reputation

World airlines have a “reputation crisis” on the environment, but governments are not helping them reduce carbon emissions, the head of the International Air Transport Association said on Monday. Airlines are doing more to reduce pollution than the public realizes, but they need to treat environmental issues with the same priority given safety and security, […]

China Makes Slim Progress on Energy Savings – Adviser

China has made little headway saving energy, reducing pollution and curbing investment as the government strives to create a more sustainable model of economic growth, a prominent expert said in remarks published on Monday. China fell short of its environment-related targets last year, said Yu Yongding, a former central bank adviser, after it failed to […]

Colombia: Massacres, paramilitary land seizures behind biofuel revolution

Armed groups in Colombia are driving peasants off their land to make way for plantations of palm oil, a biofuel that is being promoted as an environmentally friendly source of energy. Surging demand for “green” fuel has prompted rightwing paramilitaries to seize swaths of territory, according to activists and farmers. Thousands of families are believed […]

IEA urges Germany to reconsider plans for phase-out of N-energy

Germany should reconsider a plan to phase out nuclear energy or it will undermine the security of its power supply and make it harder to tackle global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday. If the plan to phase out atomic power by the early 2020s goes ahead, Germany is likely to be increasingly […]

Indonesia Won’t Allow Oil Palm Growers to Cut Primary Forests

Indonesia, the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, won’t allow oil palm growers to cut primary forests for establishing plantations, Minister for Environment Rachmat Witoelar said. Per capita carbon dioxide emissions in the Southeast Asian nation, the biggest producer of the gas after the U.S. and China, is growing at a rate of 4 percent […]

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