Shell Sponsoring Peak Oil Communication?

Click on the image to the right to download the .pdf of a full page “advert” which appeared in both Time and Fortune magazines over Easter. It was written by Jeremy Leggett, the prominent peak oil and climate change commentator and proponent of renewable energy (also Chairman of Solarcentury). On peak oil Jeremy doesn’t pull […]

Solar balloons to power remote areas?

Giant solar energy balloons floating high in the air may be a cheap way to provide electricity to areas lacking the land and infrastructure needed for traditional power systems, researchers in Israel say. The world is racing to find renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels, and entrepreneurs are scrambling for a slice of a […]

Renewable power initiative poised for ballot, draws fire

A California initiative that would have at least half the state’s electricity coming from the sun and other renewable sources by 2025 has generated more than enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, proponents said Monday. But some of the most influential advocates of renewable energy, such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, the […]

More waters off California may be off limits to oil drilling

A stretch of the Pacific Ocean off California’s wild north coast seems poised to get permanent federal protection from oil exploration and other development, in recognition that the area lies within one of the four richest marine feeding grounds in the world. The US Senate is expected this week to vote in favor of extending […]

Rubber Trees For Tyre Industry Shrink China Rainforests

On a map on ecologist Liu Wenjie’s computer, the subtropical southern tip of China’s Yunnan province is slowly turning from green to red. Rubber plantations — shown in red on Liu’s computer screen — have supplanted nearly all the low-lying forest in the prefecture of Xishuangbanna and are now starting to encroach on the highlands.Liu […]

Lula urges Brazil oil rig output despite costs

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva backed on Monday national production of oil platforms to create jobs in Brazil even if it will cost state-run oil company Petrobras more than to lease them abroad. “It is true that if you contract a platform abroad you can save maybe $50 million or $100 million, if you […]

Australia’s own ‘peak oil’

Resources and energy minister Martin Ferguson has warned the country’s growing dependence on imported energy could reach critical proprtions, speaking at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association conference in Perth. “With only about a decade of known oil resources remaining at today’s production rates, Australia is looking down the barrel of a $25bn trade […]

China to consume 63% more oil in 2020 compared with 2006

China is expected to consume 62.5 percent more oil in 2020 compared with 2006 as fast economic growth will continue to fuel domestic oil demand, says a government think tank. China’s oil consumption would rise from 346.6 million tons in 2006 to 407 million tons in 2010 and 563 million tons in 2020, the Chinese […]

Bangladesh Fears Industrial Cost from Gas Shortage

Bangladesh’s textile producers, major export earners, said on Monday that a government decision to limit gas use by industry would cause at least $18 million in lost production each month. State-run Titas Gas and Transmission and Distribution Company (TGTDC) last week told all major industries to stop natural gas consumption for five hours a day […]

The Price of Uranium Mining – a Namib Desert Scarred By Pipelines

The water requirements of at least 12 new uranium mines by 2015 will come to about 53 million cubic metres, compared to a total water supply of 67 million cubic metres presently provided by NamWater to all its customers countrywide. According to NamWater Chief Executive Dr Vaino Shivute, an envisaged water desalination plant at the […]

Oil peak theorist [Simmons] warns of chaos, war

Matt Simmons sounds the alarm like the Cassandra of the oil industry, warning that crude production has peaked and that looming energy shortages could derail global growth and even spark armed conflict. As a prominent “peak oil” theorist, the veteran oil industry financier paints a grim picture of a world facing resource scarcity. Still, it […]

Australian Drought Leads to First ‘Water Rage’ Murder

In Australia’s first known case of murder due to “water rage,” a dispute over a suburban man’s water usage led to him being beaten to death in front of his home. According to police, 66-year-old Ken Proctor was watering the lawn in front of his home in Sydney on October 31 at approximately 5:30 p.m. […]

Thaw exposes Greenland’s oil

In Greenland, locals hunt reindeer for food and use dog sleds to traverse the ice sheet. Soon they may be working on offshore oil rigs and counting their money. Oil companies have begun looking for crude deposits off the west coast, and Joern Skov Nielsen, deputy director of Greenland’s Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, said […]

UK grants planning permit to tidal power project

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has given planning permission for a prototype tidal power project in the northeast England, industry minister John Hutton said on Monday. Pulse Tidal Ltd’s test project, which has been given 878,000 of public money, could generate up to 0.15 megawatts of electricity from underwater currents in the Humber Estuary near Hull. […]

Regional nuclear conflict would create near-global ozone hole

A limited nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The computer-modeling study showed a nuclear war between the two countries […]

Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, But Gasoline Might

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of “green gasoline,” a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees. Reporting in the cover article of the April 7, 2008 issue of Chemistry & Sustainability, Energy & Materials (ChemSusChem), chemical engineer and National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER […]

ACS will host special symposium on energy, April 7, in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, April 7, 2008 Scheduled speakers and their topics include: Raymond Orbach, Ph.D., a noted researcher in theoretical and experimental physics who directs the U. S. Department of Energy

Gasoline Demand to Drop for First Time Since 1991

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. will use less gasoline this summer than last year, the first drop for that season since 1991, said Guy Caruso, administrator of the Energy Information Administration. Demand is expected to fall by 85,000 barrels a day, Caruso told reporters today at a Washington conference. In 1991, summer gasoline use fell 1.4 […]

Canada is in the middle of a quiet oil boom

Oil sands, long too expensive to process, help make it major U.S. source Ft. McMurray, Alberta – With oil prices hovering near a hundred dollars a barrel, thereHere in Alberta

Bike-sharing services roll into the U.S.

Creative financing allows cities to expand public transit offerings City commuters weary of stuffy journeys aboard buses and subways now have a better way to get to work, buy groceries and meet for a Saturday matinee. The bike-sharing programs that have transformed Europeans into two-wheeled travelers are now en route to the U.S. Clear Channel […]

IEA Chief Energy Economist Birol Says Oil Prices to Stay High

(Bloomberg) — World oil prices are likely to remain high “for many years to come” as demand increases and national oil companies lack an incentive to increase production, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency said. “The current drivers of demand are different” while higher oil prices no longer represent “an incentive” to produce […]

Trees block solar panels, and a feud ends in U.S. court

SUNNYVALE, California: Call it an eco-parable: one Prius-driving couple take pride in their eight redwoods, the first of them planted over a decade ago. Their electric-car-driving neighbors take pride in their rooftop solar panels, installed five years after the first trees were planted. Trees – redwoods, live oaks or blossoming fruit trees – are usually […]

Mexico’s oil crisis stirs a political drama

MEXICO CITY: A bitter debate over what to do about the ailing state oil monopoly has dominated national politics in Mexico in recent weeks, tapping strong emotions on both sides and resurrecting the political fortunes of the leftist leader who narrowly lost the 2006 presidential election. Revamping the oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, is […]

Global Warming gets the cold freeze

Global warming hoax exposed by record global cold …The recent Global Warming hysteria is in reality a geopolitical push by leading global elite circles to find a way to get the broader populations to willingly accept drastic cuts in their living standards, something that were it demanded without clear reason by politicians, would spark strikes […]

Increased Energy Prices Slowing Global Economy

…There is an embedded energy cost in everything you use (or eat) in the world. When goods start reflecting that increased cost of energy, they will get more expensive. “The only way to curb it and to fairly balance it is really the marketplace and the marketplace will cost energy much (higher). I don’t think […]

Can Climate Change Make Us Sicker?

What do we talk about when we talk about global warming? It’ll get hotter, that’s a safe bet, polar ice caps will be melting and wildlife that can’t adapt to warmer temperatures could be on the way out. But what does it really mean for the health of us, the human race? It’s a question […]

OPEC exports down 100,000 bpd 4 wks to Mar 23

LONDON (Reuters) – OPEC seaborne oil exports, excluding Angola and Ecuador, fell 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the four weeks to March 23, mostly on slippage from Gulf producers, data released by Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit showed on Monday. LMIU said shipments from 11 OPEC producers, including Iraq, fell to an average of 22.104 […]

Shell chief favours cross-border cooperation over competition to cut CO2

BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc.’s chief executive Jeroen van der Veer said the group favours a scenario to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions which promotes cross-border cooperation rather than countries rushing to secure energy resources for themselves. Speaking at an event here, the chief executive said coalitions should take on the challenges […]

Grains Gone Wild

These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers

Egyptian workers riot over rising prices

MAHALLA EL-KOBRA, Egypt (AP) – Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police who responded with tear gas Sunday in a northern industrial town as Egyptians staged a nationwide strike. About 150 people were arrested and 80 were wounded in the gritty Nile Delta […]

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