Is Energy Security Desirable?

The pursuit of “energy security” has brought us to the brink. It is directly responsible for numerous wars, big and small; for unprecedented environmental degradation; for global financial imbalances and meltdowns; for growing income disparities; and for ubiquitous unsustainable development. It is energy insecurity that we should seek. The uncertainty incumbent in phenomena such “peak […]

Cheap Oil Forever: Why Prices Will Keep Falling

If It It’s a view rooted in powerful and real trends, like the growth of China and India, the decline in global reserves (many of the world’s biggest and best oilfields are tapped out), fears over resource nationalization (independent oil firms now control only 20 percent of global reserves) and long-term underinvestment in energy and […]

Venezuela Aiming to Ship 1 MMbopd to China

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said here Thursday that he has reached an agreement with Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on a plan to boost Venezuela’s oil shipments to China to 1 million barrels per day next year. “I proposed that given the global situation we study the possibility and we agreed to move up the target […]

Industrial farms could leave eastern Wash. with dry wells

Scott Collins’ family has been farming in arid eastern Washington since his great grandfather first homesteaded the 1,500-acre, dry-land wheat farm more than a century ago. But the 58-year-old Collins fears he may be the last of four generations on the farm. That is because the groundwater he and his family depend on could be […]

Peru faces water versus oil dilemma

…Last month, Peru’s top court ruled that oil exploration should be halted in the protected Cordillera Escalera mountains while the government approves the regional development plan. In a country where the faith in the independence of the judiciary is only gradually being restored, the Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling was unexpected. The ruling set an important precedent […]

Report: Ethanol raises cost of nutrition programs

WASHINGTON The CBO said other factors, such as skyrocketing energy costs, have had an even greater effect than ethanol on food prices. CBO economists estimate that increased costs for food programs overall due to higher food prices will be about $5.3 billion this budget year. Ethanol’s impact on future food prices is uncertain, the report […]

Mayor Gregor Robertson lends support to UBC Farm, flags peak oil

Mayor Gregor Robertson again touched on peak oil as an issue when he recorded a video address in support of the UBC Farm. Friends of the UBC Farm had just led a successful Great Farm Trek from the Student Union Building to the 24-hectare farm that afternoon. Supporters had just spent months encouraging university governors […]

Under investments causing ripple all around!

(MENAFN – Arab News) The abstract is now taking a concrete shape. The issue of investments in new capacity, or the lack of it to be specific, is starting to take center stage. Investment bank Barclays is reporting that investments in the sector are down by at least 12 percent. “While everyone has been so […]

Climate change hits Australia first, and hard

Floods, fires, droughts, disease, extinctions and a dying Great Barrier Reef may be a hint of things to come globally. In the 1959 Gregory Peck classic As Times staff writer Julie Cart reported Thursday, Australia appears to be experiencing the effects of climate change earlier and more dramatically than most of the other inhabited parts […]

Asian companies the new players in Iraq's oil industry

The predominance of Asian operators among bidders for a chunk of Iraq’s vast oilfields shows the rising power of small and flexible state-run companies prepared to take risks, analysts say. The latest bidding round, the second since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, covers 11 gas and oilfields, including the massive West Qurna field where […]

Saudi

Saudi Arabia could soon move ahead with plans to develop its heavy oil resources, helping to dispel fears that less investment could trigger a future crude supply crisis. Dark and viscous, with the appearance and consistency of treacle, heavy oil has gained prominence in recent years as a source of transport fuel for the world, […]

Water crisis rocks LA, Mexico City; who's next?

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Water, water hardly anywhere. Water crises are rocking two of the world’s largest cities as Mexico City starts a 36-hour water cutoff and Los Angeles is in the midst of a water dearth. The problem, however, is far wider than two of the most populous cities in the Western Hemisphere. Beijing, the […]

Education needed for energy crisis

…While talking with the Star News, Shuster expressed his belief that between use and population growth, the world will run out of conventional oil reserves in 30 years. Shuster

Oil Giant Chief Predicts Shortfall in Investment in Russian Oil Industry

The shortfall in investment in the oil sector will reach R300bn in 2009, Rosneft head Sergey Bogdanchikov predicted today. In his words, “the shortfall in investment may lead to a reduction in oil production from 490m tonnes to 450m tonnes over five years”. Over the period between 2009 and 2013 the shortfall in investment may […]

Obama, Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change, Turns More Cautious

WASHINGTON The president

As UK shoppers tighten their belts, organic farmers feel the squeeze

At least two organic farmers a week are leaving the movement as consumer demand for premium food stagnates and costs rise. As evidence emerges that the organic revolution has stalled in the face of rising food prices and job uncertainty, the industry’s two biggest certification bodies have told the Guardian that a total of at […]

Gazprom sees gas demand, output depressed for 5 yrs

MOSCOW, April 9 (Reuters) – Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom believes global demand and its own gas production will be depressed by around 10 percent for the next 4-5 years, its deputy chief executive said on Thursday. ‘A reduction in demand of 10 percent will continue for the next 4-5 years,’ Valery Golubev told an […]

How to Profit from Energy Illiteracy

Politics is a painfully slow and inadequate way to go about forming an energy strategy, but it seems to be the only way we have. A new bill submitted by Rep Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA), the American Clean Energy and Security Act, would aim to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other […]

Renewable energy 'green bank' idea takes root

A coalition of energy companies hopes to reinvigorate the market for funding renewable energy projects by creating a government-backed These could include power lines to connect remote wind turbines with areas of high demand, landfill methane capture projects and refineries that turn organic material into fuels. The bill also includes funds for new nuclear power […]

Joe Romm

…Though there There are about 18 wedges possible, and we need about 14 of them to succeed. Here are the options: It’s Getting Hot In Here

Disease in a warming climate

Fears of a global rise in infectious conditions may be unfounded. Climate change takes the blame for many dim future prospects: rising sea levels, more frequent droughts and disappearing glaciers, to name just a few. But perhaps the warming trend should be absolved of responsibility for a predicted bump in the global burden of infectious […]

Earth's Arctic Freezer Turning Into Hothouse

The world is losing its northern freezer as Arctic winter ice is in sharp decline, NASA scientists reported this week. Even with below average winter temperatures, Arctic ice is thinner and covers less area than it did a decade ago. “We’ve already lost one third of the summer ice cover since the 1980s. There are […]

S-Af: Renewable Energy – Harnessing Africa's Natural Resources

Renewable energy is one of the topical stories of our day. Whether at dinner parties, around the water dispenser at work, or in the media, the issue of energy and alternative fuels shows no sign of abating. In light of the spate of power outages seen earlier in the year, investors in South Africa have […]

Kenya: Windy Prospects – Energy Company Sets Up Shop in Kenya

Lake Turkana Wind Power plans to produce 300MW by 2012 by harnessing renewable wind power in northern Kenya. The project, once complete could meet about a quarter of at Kenya’s total energy demand, now standing at an estimated 1,200M. Chris Staubo, a director at LTWP talks to us about the project and renewable energy in […]

Official: Iran ready to invite U.S. companies for oil projects

Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi said on Wednesday that the country is ready to invite U.S. companies for oil projects in the Islamic Republic. “Iran is ready to talk with American oil companies on oil projects,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Shirazi as saying. “The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has never […]

Nigeria oil unrest 'kills 1,000'

Violence in Nigeria’s oil region left 1,000 people dead and cost $24bn (Militants and criminal gangs often attack oil installations, leading to reprisals from the military. The unrest has cut Nigeria’s oil output by about 25% in recent years. Last week, President Umaru Yar’Adua said his government was considering granting amnesty to violent groups if […]

China keeps Chavez close, but not too close

Despite his gushing compliments this week, Beijing has been careful to keep Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a distance as it tries not to jeopardise its relations with Washington, analysts say. On Thursday evening at the end of a 48-hour visit to Beijing, Latin America’s leftwing leader-in-chief was at pains to underline the strong links […]

Iran's Fuel Fabrication: Step closer to energy independence or a bomb?

Yesterday, on Iran’s national Nuclear Technology Day, President Ahmadinejad announced the country’s latest nuclear advances, which seem to have become an important source of national pride and international rancor. April 9 marks the day when Iran claimed to have enriched its first batch of uranium in 2006. Yesterday, Ahmadinejad inaugurated Iran’s Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP) […]

Destroying urban gardens in the wake of peak oil:

Will we build sustainable communities or follow the US off a cliff? During the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries Barack Obama stated that These happen to be amazing statements considering that the

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