Families should have no more than two children – thinktank

Families should have no more than two children if they want to help combat climate change, according to new research by a thinktank. According to the report, published by the Optimum Population Trust, Britain’s high birth rate is a major factor in the current level of climate change, which can only be combatted if families […]

Argentina cuts gas supply to Chile as energy crisis worsens

Argentina suspended Wednesday natural gas shipments to neighbouring Chile to ensure domestic supplies as one of the coldest winters in recent history grips Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and the south of Brazil. Chile’s National Energy Commission said residential customers in the country’s centre can be supplied with residual gas from the Gas Andes pipeline provided the […]

Africa: Continent’s Energy Crisis to Take Centre Stage At Lisbon

Africa’s worsening energy situation would take centre stage at the revived (European Union (EU)-Africa Summit in December this year in Lisbon. As one of the policy initiatives to be discussed, the EU-Africa Partnership on Energy is expected to help solve the energy problems of Africa.On both continents, energy security, access to secure, sustainable and affordable […]

Plea over Indonesia palm oil plan

A coalition of environmental groups in Indonesia has called on the United Nations to intervene in a palm oil project being planned in Borneo. The project will allocate up to 1.8 million hectares (4.4 million acres) of land for palm oil plantations.The group fears the project will cause irreparable harm to indigenous people’s territories and […]

The gauges do not lie: oil pressure is building

The last time oil was at $76 a barrel, which was only 11 months ago, a chorus line emerged to tell us it would not last. Speculative money was at play, political tensions would ease, and American drivers would notice a rise in pump prices. All were good points, and a reasonable explanation of why […]

Water World: Slipping Toward Climate Catastrophe

The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by as much as 59 centimeters this century. Hansen’s paper argues that the slow melting of ice sheets the panel expects doesn’t fit the data. The geological record suggests that ice at the poles does not melt in a gradual and linear fashion, but flips suddenly from […]

China’s one-party monopoly of power is coming to an end

In Hu’s view, wider consultation and a slightly wider franchise within the party for senior posts should just about do it. “Chinese characteristics” seem set to remain firmly in force. But this is unlikely to satisfy the demands of a population that has seen the promise of prosperity falter as the wealth gap widens and […]

OPEC says crude supply not to blame for oil price

Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members said on Wednesday they are not to blame for near-record oil prices, pointing the finger at a global shortage of refinery capacity and international political tension. “OPEC does not find any reason at the moment to increase its production of crude oil,” the group’s president and United Arab Emirates […]

Great South Basin Oil and Gas Quest Set to Begin

The economies of Southland and Otago are to get a major boost from oil and gas exploration, as international investors prepare to spend more than a billion dollars exploring the vast Great South Basin over the next five years, according to Associate Energy Minister Harry Duynhoven. “The intensity of work proposed for the Great South […]

Massive Spanish-German solar project enters second phase

The Spanish group ACS and German partner Solar Millennium said Wednesday they had begun the second phase of a massive solar power project near the southern city of Granada. According to the German firm, the second phase of the Andasol-2 project will come online in early 2009 and supply “environmentally-friendly solar electricity to as many […]

Will Consumers Take to Alternative Fuel Vehicles?

Imagine a vehicle that runs on hydrogen or biofuels and offers the same features, performance and price as today’s gasoline vehicle. Will it capture half the market? Not likely, concludes a new MIT analysis. Not even if it’s three times more fuel-efficient. renewableenergyaccess

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Organizers of Washington County Peak Oil say they are motivated by the looming crisis caused by the peaking of world petroleum supplies and by a hopeful vision of future possibilities. The group, which launched last week, aims to boost awareness about the global oil supply and its economic, environmental and social implications. forestgrovenewstimes

The Peak Oil Crisis: A Tale of Two Reports

In the last few days, two important reports on the prospects for world oil production were fcnp

Miscanthus More Than Twice as Productive as Switchgrass for Energy Crop

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have made the first direct comparisons of the biomass productivity of two C4 perennial grasses: switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) and Miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus). The two have been widely trialed as low-input bioenergy crops in the US and EU, respectively. greencarcongress

IEA boss denies and confirms peak oil in same breath

It seems that the International Energy Agency, the intergovernmental energy watchdog, has been going in overdrive lately. First, we had the interview of its chief economist warning us that we were going to ward a wall without Iraqi oil, then the recent publication of their yearly outlook report predicting shortages within 5 years, and now […]

Chatting with America’s gas price survey maven Trilby Lundberg

Trilby Lundberg is publisher of the Lundberg Survey, a national survey of gas prices quoted regularly by major news organizations, including CNN. In an interview with CNN.com, Lundberg explained why gas prices soared this spring, decried the politics of global warming, and chastised the media for not taking the time to thoroughly report the complex, […]

The Oil Drum: An Interview with Tribly Lundberg

Q: As far as conservation, what are the trends you are seeing? A: I’m hoping that consumers will see through the rhetoric about consuming less, demanding less, as faulty. It is not a given that consuming less will be good for our economy or for our personal freedom. It is not even established for our […]

Nebraska Gas Pumps Run Dry

Truckers spent more than an hour waiting to fill up with fuel for delivery as some gas pumps ran dry across the state on Wednesday. Nebraska’s governor has issued an executive order that will allow gasoline truck drivers to alter their hours of service.Gov. Dave Heineman’s executive order said that supplies are unusually tight, so […]

Imagining a World Without Oil

Salon.com published an article today, discussing how Alternate Reality Games can be used to change people Salon

Troubles at BP’s Whiting refinery hurts gas prices

WHITING, Ind. – A leak that forced BP to temporarily shut down a Lake Michigan refinery’s biggest crude unit has helped fuel this week’s jump in gasoline prices, industry officials said. Prices in northwestern Indiana climbed to an average of $3.07 per gallon for unleaded regular Tuesday, up from $2.91 a week ago, according to […]

Mexican gas explosions force shutdowns

MEXICO CITY – Honda, Hershey’s and other multinational companies temporarily shut down their factories in western Mexico on Wednesday after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline. The small, left-wing guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for the explosions issued a statement late Tuesday vowing to continue the attacks, while the Mexican government scrambled to increase […]

Kuwait says has 100 billion barrel oil reserve

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) – OPEC-member Kuwait reiterated Wednesday that it had oil reserves of 100 billion barrels, again disputing a report that the figure was around half that amount. “We confirm that Kuwait’s oil reserves are 100 billion barrels,” acting oil minister Mohammad al-Olaim told reporters after briefing parliament in a closed-door session about the […]

UK: Friday Play

Friday 13 July 9.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 4 Western governments, oil companies and business analysts have long predicted that the “peak”, when oil reserves become finite and the markets begin to panic, is as far away as 2030. However, Rob Turner, oil company geologist, has just uncovered that the peak is not tomorrow. It was yesterday. […]

$80 oil lurks

Growing demand, tight supplies, turbulent geopolitics, hurricane season – a witches brew for crude prices. …So, with both the geopolitical scene and hurricane season heating up, will we see $80 oil in the next few weeks? “I don’t see anything blunting the price rise until it disrupts our way of life,” said energy analyst Mike […]

Venezuela Denies Talk of Falling Oil Output

The government on Monday denied a press report that labor conflicts at oil fields in western Venezuela have reduced output by 200,000 barrels per day. “There is no diminution of production. Currently, oil production is 3.07 million barrels” per day, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told reporters, responding to a story in the Caracas daily El […]

The Oil Drum: Old Sun vs Ancient Sun-An Analysis of Home Heating and Wood

As the longest day of the year is just past, we begin the inexorable annual trajectory towards winter. A short fifty years ago, people heated their homes in winter with coal. A hundred years ago and before, people living in cold climates largely stayed warm in winter with firewood. Today, in a country (and planet) […]

Feeling peaky

‘Peak oil’ doomsayers are wrong – there is plenty out there. It’s just a question of whether we are willing to pay the environmental price to get it. The world could be facing an oil-supply crunch in the next five years, according to the International Energy Agency. The west’s energy watchdog warned this week that […]

Canada flexes its muscles in scramble for the Arctic

It is not the kind of militaristic statement expected of the peace-loving Canadians. In front of a choreographed line-up of 120 sailors in their summer whites at a naval base outside Victoria in British Columbia, the prime minister, Stephen Harper, gave a warning to other nations with their eye on the potentially oil-rich Arctic. “Canada […]

African forest under threat from sugar cane plantation

Conservationists in Uganda are fighting a last-ditch battle to stop the destruction of a forest reserve by a sugar corporation friendly with the government. The Mabira Forest Reserve, on the north shore of Lake Victoria, is home to 300 bird species as well as rare primates, and plays a vital role in the country’s eco-system, […]

WHAT TO DO? WHAT TO DO? Taking Action In The Face Of Collapse

by Carolyn Baker Every time I write an article on collapse such as my most recent one “Happy Independence Day; You Have No Government”, I am bombarded with emails asking me “what should I do?” For those who have just discovered this site, that is a legitimate question because for them, the reality of collapse […]

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