There’s More To It Than Oil

The end of our industrial lifestyle paradigm will be dictated by Liebig’s Law, and by humanity’s response to its consequences. Unfortunately, it is impossible to know at this point which increasingly scarce nonrenewable natural resource (NNR) or NNR combination will ultimately prove to be industrialized humanity’s limiting factor. Consequently, humanity’s global societal collapse may be […]

In conversation with Dr. Colin J Campbell, Ballydehob, West Cork, Ireland

Founder – The Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO)

Sarah Laskow: even renewable energy has a dark side

Sarah Laskow is a freelance writer who has covered environmental issues for Grist, GOOD, and Newsweek.com, among others. Raised in New Jersey and educated at Yale where she studied literature, Sarah now lives across the river in Manhattan with her partner. She’s done extensive traveling in West Africa, Europe, and Central America. Sarah can be […]

Violence erupts in Nigeria over petrol prices

Protesters furious over spiralling petrol prices started fires on a motorway and at least one person was killed in the unrest after Nigeria’s government scrapped a subsidy that had kept fuel costs down for more than 20 years. One union leader described the government’s hugely unpopular move as “immoral and politically suicidal” and urged Nigerians […]

OPEC oil output hits 3-year high

OPEC oil output rose in December to the highest since October 2008, mainly due to a further recovery in Libya’s production, a Reuters survey found on Wednesday. Supply from all 12 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries averaged 30.74 million barrels per day last month, up from a revised 30.62 million bpd […]

U.S. to Iran: Warships to remain in Persian Gulf

The Obama administration on Tuesday brushed aside Iran’s warning to keep U.S. aircraft carriers out of the Gulf, dismissing its threats as a consequence of hard-hitting American sanctions on the Iranian economy. Provoking a hostile start to what could prove a pivotal year for Iran, the country’s army chief said American vessels were unwelcome in […]

How to compare energy storage projects

As the grid energy storage market develops, we will see more projects being completed that boast to be the world’s largest. BYD, for example, completed a battery storage installation that filled up more than a football field, and the company said the project, at 36 megawatt hours, is the world’s largest. AES Energy Storage, meanwhile, […]

Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2012

Rewind to 2011 with a “best of” New Year’s story? Bah, humbug! Today, Biofuels Digest looks forward to the sunny possibilities of 2012 in bioenergy. As the sunset of 2011 gives way to the dawn of 2012, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation to look back over the challenges and highlights of […]

Study: Biofuels 14x to 31x More Costly than Raising the Gas Tax

Could the cost-efficacy and net benefit of biofuels be worse than we thought? A study released by Oregon State University (OSU) economists late last year indicates that the biofuels currently mandated and under production in Europe and the United States ¨barely reduce fossil fuel use and. . .likely increase greenhouse gas emissions.¨ They´re also 14 […]

Shale gas turns energy tables

Countries that have always depended on imported oil and gas, like Chile, Paraguay, Poland or Ukraine, and especially heavy consumers such as the United States and China, could become self-sufficient in natural gas in the near future and even start exporting it. Shale gas – natural gas extracted from shale rock – may well be […]

Anatolia gas pipeline races towards reality

Competition in the Southern Gas Corridor from the Caspian Sea basin to Europe continues to heat up, with more details about the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline emerging and Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin bringing forward construction of the South Stream pipeline under the Black Sea. Putin ordered construction of the Russian-Turkey-Europe South Stream pipeline to start […]

$5 A Gallon For Gas? It Could Happen In 2012

Five dollars a gallon for gas? Analysts say it could happen this year. Monique Griego has more on why gas prices could soon explode. Just this weekend, the president signed new sanctions against the country of Iran. Now, Iran is firing back with a threat that could send gas prices higher than ever. Prices at […]

War Imminent In Straits Of Hormuz? $200 A Barrel Oil?

The pieces and policies for potential conflict in the Persian Gulf are seemingly drawing inexorably together. Since 24 December the Iranian Navy has been holding its ten-day Velayat 90 naval exercises, covering an area in the Arabian Sea stretching from east of the Strait of Hormuz entrance to the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of […]

What Do Triple Digit Oil Prices Mean for Growth?

Can we still expect to see sustained economic recoveries when oil, the world’s principal source of energy, is trading in triple digit range? As I argued several years ago in my book, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, triple digit oil prices will redefine our notion of an economic recovery […]

Chris Hedges “Brace Yourself! The American Empire Is Over & The Descent Is Going To Be Horrifying!”

January 01, 2012 C-SPAN

Iran’s Currency Plunge 10% After Fresh US Sanctions

The Iranian Riyal fell to a record low against the US dollar on Monday, after fresh US sanctions imposed severe penalties and restrictions on foreign financial institutions that had dealing with the Iranian central bank. Late on Monday, Iran’s currency exchange rate was hovering at around 17,800 riyals to the US dollar, as compared to […]

Michael C. Ruppert on The Joe Rogan Experience

Today, December 27, 2011, Michael C. Ruppert traveled to Los Angeles to participate in a podcast interview with Joe Rogan on his show, The Joe Rogan Experience. As promised, Mike was on his game and held no punches back while discussing collapse, the economic meltdown, Ron Paul, peak oil, 9-11, Occupy, and the CIA and […]

China, Oil And Ethnic Cleansing In Horn Of Africa

Chinese oil workers once again seem to be at the center of a nasty counterinsurgency in the Horn of Africa, in the Ogaden, located in south east Ethiopia. The Ogaden is home to what is reported to be major deposits of gas and oil, though as in South Sudan, just how much is actually there […]

Putin piles on Arctic pressure

Russian foreign policy under Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is increasingly resorting to gunboat diplomacy. However, another key element in Putin’s agenda has been his aggressive campaign to assert Russian interests in the Arctic. The aggressiveness has been manifested in earlier rhetorical exchanges and the resumption of Russian military flights over and from the Arctic, as […]

The Convoluted Economics of Storing Energy

As I reported in Tuesday’s paper, some companies think that one form of renewable energy is going to open a window for another — that solar photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight directly into electricity, are going to increase the grid’s need for a type of solar energy that can be stored. That would be solar […]

Dimitry Orlov on Panel Discussion with Richard Heinberg, Nicole Foss, James Howard Kunstler and Noam Chomsky

This morning I was honored to participate in a panel discussion on what the near future holds with an illustrious panel: Richard Heinberg, Nicole Foss, James Howard Kunstler and Noam Chomsky. And it turned out really dismal, if you ask me! The overall message seems to have been that it doesn’t matter what any of […]

Oil price ‘to stay over $100 a barrel in 2012’

THE price of North Sea Brent crude oil looks set to remain above $100 (£64) a barrel during 2012 despite the threat of a global recession, creating misery for motorists and other consumers of petroleum products and headaches for central bankers worried about inflation. City oil analysts said a combination of tight supplies, strong demand […]

Middle East: Chalk up another landmark year for the region’s oil

Four years stand out as landmarks in Middle East oil: 1951; 1973; 1979; and 1991. In those years, the old certainties burned in revolutions and wars, oil prices soared, and the world’s energy affairs were set on an entirely different course. To those memorable dates, we can now add 2011. The regimes that crumbled in […]

Outcry in Nigeria as fuel prices more than double

Irate drivers in Africa’s most populous nation paid more than twice the usual price Monday after the government quietly removed a long-cherished consumer subsidy that had kept gas affordable, prompting fears of strikes and unrest. Gas powers Nigeria’s generators because the national electricity supply is sporadic at best, and fuel also keeps engines running in […]

To green or not to green? UK’s energy dilemma

f you think the UK is in a difficult position as far as its relationship goes to the rest of Europe and the ongoing euro debt drama, consider the circumstances surrounding its energy and climate policies. It’s all enough to make Prime Minister David Cameron wish he had never pledged to usher in “the greenest […]

Natural gas and the trouble with estimating fossil fuel reserves

Over the past few years, I’ve heard several people in the natural gas industry estimate that the United States is sitting on 100 years worth of natural gas. Every time I’ve heard the 100-year estimate batted around, it’s been presented as a positive thing, a shorthand way of saying, “We’ve got tons of home-grown energy, […]

ASPO-USA: 2012 Predictions

Last year ASPO-USA brought together a host of leading thinkers and their predictions for what to expect in 2011. While not all the predictions were on target, last year’s thinkers and leaders on energy issues were remarkably prescient, accurately anticipating among other things Arab Spring, the flow of energy prices, the re-emergent world food crisis, […]

Disposal Halted at Well After New Quake in Ohio

An official in Ohio said on Sunday that the underground disposal of wastewater from natural-gas drilling operations would remain halted in the Youngstown area until scientists could analyze data from the most recent of a string of earthquakes there. The latest quake, the 11th since mid-March, occurred Saturday afternoon and with a magnitude of 4.0 […]

Dr. Robert Hirsch: “We Are Staring Directly Into An Energy Storm in The Next 2-3 Years”

. MP3 Download James J Puplava CFP with Robert L Hirsch PhD Dr. Robert Hirsch, Senior Energy Advisor at MISI, joins Jim to discuss an energy storm heading our way in the next two to three years. Dr. Hirsch believes Peak Oil is on our doorstep, nobody is taking notice, and we have no “Plan […]

Military renewables

The US Department of Defense is pursuing a strategy, defined by the phrase “operational energy,” that holds potential as well as hazard. The military can incubate technology. It also can waste money. Operational energy receives thoughtful treatment in an article published last month in the Journal of Energy Security by Editor Kevin Rosner, senior fellow […]

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