‘Best Hope At Sustainable Fisheries’ Short-changed By Conservation Efforts

Small scale fisheries produce as much annual catch for human consumption and use less than one-eighth the fuel as their industrial counterparts, but they are dealt a double-whammy by well-intentioned eco-labelling initiatives and ill-conceived fuel subsidies, according to a University of British Columbia study. …”Small-scale fisheries use fishing gear that are more selective and far […]

Medvedev: We

West fumes as Russian president OKs recognition of rebel Georgia areas MOSCOW – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking in the midst of one of the lowest points in the Russia-West relationship since the breakup of the Soviet Union 17 years ago, said Tuesday that his country did not seek a new Cold War The statement […]

Mexico’s Cantarell oil output falls again in July

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Crude output from Mexico’s struggling Cantarell oil field fell for the 10th month in a row in July to 974,000 barrels per day, energy ministry data showed on Tuesday. The fading jewel of Mexico’s oil industry, Cantarell is now producing half what it was yielding at its 2004 peak, pulling down […]

Hurricane Gustav aims for U.S. Gulf oil facilities

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil companies began early storm preparations on Tuesday as forecasters predicted Hurricane Gustav will enter the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as a major storm by the weekend. Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest oil and gas producers in the region, said it would begin evacuating nonessential personnel from offshore facilities […]

Wind, solar projects race to finish before tax credit expires

A congressional stand-off that has blocked extension of federal tax credits for renewable energy projects is setting off a boom in the wind and solar industries. Developers and customers are racing to install systems by year’s end to qualify for the credits, which can cut the cost of a large commercial system by 30%. Wind […]

Don

Despite their recent slump, high oil prices may turn out to be history However, by changing a few assumptions, the continuation of our lifestyle with private transport (cars of some kind) looks more probable than impossible. While permanent $4 or $5 per gallon gas prices are new territory in North America, they are not a

Predator-Prey Dynamics in Demand Destruction & Oil Prices

One of the classic ecological modeling problems is the oscillating populations of predators and their prey in an ecosystem–as prey population rises, predator population follows suit until prey population begins to fall off, resulting in a subsequent drop in predator population (illustrated below). The same dynamic also applies, to some degree, to the relationship between […]

Supply and Demand on a Full Planet – ASPO VI Speech by Nate Hagens

Next month is the ASPO conference in Sacramento CA. Nate Hagens will be one of the speakers in the plenary (as well as on the Sunday TOD breakout panels). Here is a video of the talk he gave last year at the international ASPO VI venue in Cork Ireland. The speech covered net energy, energy […]

Scrapping fuel subsidies can help climate – UN study

ACCRA (Reuters) – Abolishing subsidies on fossil fuels could cut world greenhouse gas emissions by up to 6 percent and also nudge up world economic growth, a U.N. report showed on Tuesday. Subsidies on oil, gas or coal are meant to help the poor by lowering the price of energy but the report, issued on […]

Harper Arctic Cabinet Meeting Risks New Russia Cold War for Oil

(Bloomberg) — Beneath the melting ice of the Arctic Ocean, the world’s last great land grab is under way. Global warming is opening the Northwest Passage that sailing ships sought 500 years ago, and some of the world’s biggest oil reserves are becoming accessible under the polar sea. Russia, the U.S., Canada, Norway and Denmark […]

On the Road Again

In the early 1990s, all three major American automakers started building clean and efficient natural gas vehicles. But when a new federal law failed to create an expected guaranteed market, the momentum died. Today, only Honda sells a model in the United States — and in minuscule numbers. Now, as drivers reel from the shock […]

Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn In Ethanol Production Study

ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2008) Lew Ziska, a plant physiologist at the ARS Crop Systems and Global Change Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., and colleagues at Beltsville and at the ARS National Soil Dynamics Laboratory in Auburn, Ala., performed the study. The research is unique in comparing the root crops to corn, and in growing all three […]

UK ’should end biofuel subsidies’

The government should stop funding biofuels and use the money to halt the destruction of rainforests and peatland instead, a think tank has said. Policy Exchange said the switch would have a bigger impact on climate change because trees and peatland remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The government currently spends

The winds of change in our energy consumption could still be light years away

As much as there’s been lots of talk about wind addressing our energy needs in the future, that future would appear to be a long way off yet. Wind accounts for less than 1 per cent of the energy produced in Canada (Ontario is the wind-farm leader). The Canadian Wind Energy Association believes it can […]

Australia: Tyranny of distance fuels rising grocery prices

REMOTE towns in NSW – not only Aboriginal communities – are struggling with grocery prices pushed higher by rising freight costs. In Tibooburra they pay $4.75 for two litres of milk, which Sydneysiders can buy at a supermarket for $2.59. “The freight prices we have to pay to get the bare necessities up is unbelievable,” […]

Slowing economy, high fuel costs dent China car market

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s car market, the world’s second largest, is losing speed more quickly than expected due to a slowing economy, rising fuel prices and natural disasters, raising the prospect that sales growth could halve this year. Growing by at least 20 percent a year for the past three years, China has been one […]

12 states sue EPA over refinery carbon emissions

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York and 11 other states are suing federal environmental regulators over greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries, the New York attorney general’s office said on Monday. The suit, led by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, charges that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the federal Clean Air Act by refusing […]

Could $100 oil turn dumps into plastic mines?

LONDON (Reuters) – Sparked by surging oil, a dramatic rise in the value of old plastic is encouraging waste companies across the world to dig for buried riches in rotting rubbish dumps. Long a symbol of humanity’s throw-away culture, existing landfill sites are now being viewed as mines of potential which as the world population […]

Oil rises as tropical storm forms in Caribbean

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil rose on Monday as Tropical Storm Gustav formed in the Caribbean, stirring concerns that it could disrupt oil and natural gas output in the Gulf of Mexico as it moves northwest. Gustav, the seventh tropical storm in the Caribbean this season, was expected to strengthen and bring hurricane conditions to […]

OPEC to try to curb oil price fall in Sept: Iran

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s oil minister said on Monday he expected OPEC to work on preventing the falling trend in crude prices and also to study oversupply in the market when it meets in September, oil ministry news website SHANA said. Iran is traditionally a price hawk and has been at the forefront of rejecting […]

U.N. climate talks advance on forests and industry

ACCRA (Reuters) – U.N. climate talks in Ghana are making progress on ways to help developing nations slow deforestation and have eased disputes over use of greenhouse gas targets for industrial sectors, delegates said on Monday. “It’s moving pretty well now,” Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told reporters of the […]

Car makers lag EU’s CO2 vision, Japan worst:study

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Car makers are not doing enough to meet the European Union’s proposed targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions, with several Japanese car brands facing the biggest challenge to make the grade, a report said on Tuesday. Overall, car makers will have to cut CO2 emissions by 17 percent to reach the proposed […]

Peak Oil Review – Aug 25, 2008

1. Production and Prices 2. Electricity Supplies in Asia 3. Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) 4. Briefs 1. Production and Prices In recent weeks oil prices have been linked to the US dollar, rising as it falls and sliding as it rises. Occasionally the pattern is broken by some major fundamental or geopolitical development. The dollar […]

Iran Plans to Boost Crude Exports to China, India

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is likely to cut crude exports to some global buyers in a bid to increase sales to China and India, an Iranian oil official said. “China and India have growing economies and it is completely clear that they need more energy resources,” the head of International Affairs department of the National Iranian […]

High gas prices drive down traffic fatalities

Death toll appears headed to lowest point since JFK was president WASHINGTON – Roll back the clock to 1961: John F. Kennedy was inaugurated president. The Peace Corps was founded. The Dow Jones industrials hit 734. Gasoline reached 31 cents a gallon. And the number of people killed in U.S. traffic accidents that year topped […]

Study Gauges Meadowlands Sea-Level Rise

Scientists are setting up monitoring stations throughout the Meadowlands to chart rising sea levels and prepare for flooding that could result from global warming. Information gathered from the seven stations will eventually show which marshes, neighborhoods and business areas are most susceptible to rising waters. Water levels in the Meadowlands have risen on average 1.7 […]

Analyst warns of looming global climate wars

The prospect of global wars driven by climate change is not something often discussed publicly by our political leaders. But according to one of America’s top military analysts, governments in the US and UK are already being briefed by their own military strategists about how to prepare for a world of mass famine, floods of […]

Mileage vs. safety? Number of natural gas car conversions explodes

The number of natural-gas tanks powering Utah vehicles has exploded this year. Now state officials and clean-car advocates want to ensure the tanks don’t blow up, too, and that they pollute as little as intended. Many of the vehicles – including the nearly 700 that earned one-time tax breaks last year – are professionally equipped, […]

Iran launches submarine production line

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has launched a submarine production line to ensure its forces are equipped to maintain security in the vital oil shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz waterway, the defence minister said on Monday. Iran, embroiled in a standoff with the West over its nuclear ambitions, has said it could respond to any […]

TVA fertilizer technology used worldwide – but few new products since 1970s

About 75% of fertilizers and fertilizer technology used around the world today were developed or improved during the 1950s to 1970s by scientists and engineers at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the United States, says John Shields, a former TVA official. Shields is now Interim Director of IFDC, An International Center for Soil Fertility […]

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