Canada Rises and Saudi Slides: Top 15 Sources for U.S. Crude Oil Imports in 2011

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently published an article on 2011 U.S. crude oil imports. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at where the U.S. currently obtains its oil, and how that has changed over the past decade. The EIA story is: Nearly 69% of U.S. crude oil imports originated from five […]

Study ties oil and gas production to Midwest quake

Oil and gas production may explain a sharp increase in small earthquakes in the nation’s midsection, a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests. The rate has jumped sixfold from the late 20th century through last year, the team reports, and the changes are “almost certainly man-made.” Outside experts were split in their opinions […]

New Zealand’s Potential for Oil Independence in an Uncertain World

Ever since United States oil production peaked in the 1970s there has been debate about the ability of North America to become self reliant by producing all its own oil. Fast forward forty years and this conversation is still taking place and the U.S. is still no closer to oil independence.  So what about New […]

Overpopulation: The Facts and Solutions

There are currently about 7 billion people in the world…and that number continues to rise. Overpopulation can be caused by a number of factors, including an increase in births, a decline in mortality rates, an increase in immigration, and/or an unsustainable habitat (in this case Earth) and depletion of resources. Why is overpopulation an issue? […]

The Earth Is Full

For 50 years the environmental movement has unsuccessfully argued that we should save the planet for moral reasons, that there were more important things than money. Ironically, it now seems it will be money — through the economic impact of climate change and resource constraint — that will motivate the sweeping changes necessary to avert […]

It’s Not Over: Government Plans for the Worst: Forced Evacuation of Tokyo

There is a report that the Japanese government has made it illegal for Japanese to purchase Geiger Counters for personal use claiming they are made in the U.S. and are inaccurate. If true, this certainly suggests the government wants to hide something—like radiation going off the charts in Tokyo. A new commentary by Mac Salvo says that […]

Mexico Scraps Plans to Build 10 Nuclear Power Plants in Favor of Using Gas

Mexico, one of three Latin American nations that uses nuclear power, is abandoning plans to build as many as 10 new reactors and will focus on natural gas-fired electricity plants after boosting discoveries of the fuel. The country, which found evidence of trillions of cubic feet of gas in the past year, is “changing all […]

Should we care about the human future? If so, how much?

In virtually every institution in human society, we humans concern ourselves with the continuation of the species. We have children, we raise them in some sort of family, we educate them for the world of work and citizenship, and then we see them couple and start the cycle all over again. All the while we […]

The last sip

A fever has swept over American energy observers in recent weeks as they compete to write the most optimistic story of impending energy independence. For example, see Clifford Krauss in the New York Times, Citigroup’s Ed Morse in the Wall Street Journal, and Raymond James’s outlook covered by Angel Gonzalez for Dow Jones, with perhaps […]

For Japan, shutting down nuclear plants brings surge in oil, gas imports

To make up for its dwindling nuclear supply, Japan is on a frenzied but costly hunt for fossil fuels. As part of that hunt, tankers from as many as 12 countries are pulling up weekly to Japanese port cities, hauling liquefied natural gas super-cooled to 260 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Officials from Tokyo are making […]

US-Israel War on Iran: The Myth of Limited Warfare

Washington and Tel Aviv claim and appear to believe that their planned assault on Iran will be a “limited war”, targeting limited objectives and lasting a few days or weeks – with no serious consequences. Introduction: The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including: (1) the recent military […]

The Largest Short-Term Threat to Humanity: The Fuel Pools of Fukushima

We noted days after the Japanese earthquake that the biggest threat was from the spent fuel rods in the fuel pool at Fukushima unit number 4, and not from the reactors themselves. See this and this. We noted in February: Scientists say that there is a 70% chance of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hitting Fukushima […]

Irv Mills – Pete Newton – Peak Oil

What up everyone!! Here’s a great chat with Irv Mills an expert and blogger on the topics of Peak Oil, energy, economy, environment and resilience. It’s not a goofy/dick/fart podcast that I enjoy doing so much; it’s a great discussion with a well informed and very interesting guy. He will make you think, that’s for sure! […]

Replacing Iran’s Oil Production

If an embargo is successful in preventing Iran from selling a significant amount of oil on the world market, what would replace it? On Friday the White House released the following statement: there currently appears to be sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil to permit foreign countries to significantly reduce their import of Iranian oil, taking […]

Italy To Cut Green Energy Incentives

* Green incentives to hit 9 bln euros under current scheme * Investments on hold pending incentive regime changes * Foreign investors exit could hurt Monti government By Stephen Jewkes and Svetlana Kovalyova MILAN, April 5 (Reuters) – Italy’s plan to scale back its generous renewable energy incentives will cut energy costs for families and […]

We’re Not Going to Run Out of Oil Based Fertilizer

I had thought that worries over the supplies of oil based fertilizers (or fertilisers) were confined to the kookier ends of the Peak Oil conspirators along with the weirder part of the environmental movement. Sadly, I find that it has invaded the editorials of seemingly respectable newspapers like London’s The Guardian. The point being of […]

Chris Martenson Interviews Khosla Ventures: The US Is Massively Underfunding The Innovations Critical To Its Energy Future

Khosla Ventures: The US is Massively Underfunding the Innovations Critical to Its Energy Future “The age of cheap oil is over,” agrees Andrew Chung, partner at Khosla Ventures, arguably the most knowledgeable venture capital firm spearheading next-generation energy projects. While perhaps more optimistic than Chris on the odds that the world can transition off fossil […]

Jack Gerard, the force majeure behind Big Oil

Ask oil lobbyists, oil executives, and former employees and board members of the American Petroleum Institute how they describe API President Jack N. Gerard, and one thing they don’t say is soft. One calls him a “hard-nosed guy.” Another says he is “a political animal” who “loves a fight.” Yet another dubs him “Voldemort.” And […]

A Community’s Hopes for Self-Sufficiency

irst Nations people have harvested seaweed, oysters and dandelions for centuries. They catalog these three species as sources of food and medicine. As I climb across an intrusive coastal granite outcrop off the Coast Trail on Vancouver Island’s southernmost tip, across the water from the T’Sou-ke Nation reserve, my focus today is to learn more […]

The Future is Fusion

We are currently experiencing an energy crisis. For over 150 years now we have been extracting energy from the earth in the form of oil and gas. For a long time this was seen as a good thing — these fuels were the energy backbone that helped to build the modern world. In fact, more […]

The petroleum age is just beginning

Peak Oil is the theory that the production history of petroleum follows a symmetrical bell-shaped curve. Once the curve peaks, decline is inevitable. The theory is commonly invoked to justify the development of alternative energy sources that are allegedly renewable and sustainable. It’s time to consign Peak Oil theory to the dust bin of history. […]

Oil price salvation won’t be found in the Bakken

When gasoline prices ratchet up and it costs a hundred bucks to fill your car, the political comedy starts. Who to blame? In the United States, the right blames the left and vice versa. Fuel taxes are too high, the American motorist moans, even though taxes in the United States are among the lowest in […]

Radioactive Water Leaks From Fukushima Into Pacific Ocean

About 12 tonnes of water contaminated with radiation has leaked from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Plant operator TEPCO believes most of the water flowed into the Pacific Ocean. It says the contaminated water leaked from a treatment pipe. The water contained radioactive strontium which tends to accumulate in bones and can cause leukaemia. It […]

Hawaii Can Show the Way to a Better Energy Future

Over the past decade, world oil prices have advanced from approximately $25 per barrel to more than $100 per barrel. Had the price of oil merely kept pace with inflation, the $25 barrel in 2000 would have been worth just over $30 in 2010. Clearly, there has been a fundamental shift in the oil markets. […]

Big Inch Pipeline and the Blob

Since large oil pipelines are so newsy these days with the uneven regulatory progress of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline to bring Canadian crude to the US, it’s worth noting that this month marks a quiet anniversary of sorts–the 70th–for a pipeline with a very different history–one approved in a relative jiffy at a time of critical oil demand. Until World […]

“Global economic collapse… by 2030” because of overpopulation, study says

I hate “downer” stories like these, they’re depressing. But they keep stacking up in my browser tabs, and I feel it’s my duty to (a) release tabs so others can use them, and (b) at least tell you this stuff is going on. After all, it is a news blog. Bottom line — You’re gonna […]

US Seeks to Disintegrate Yemen for its Oil Resources

A senior Yemeni politician has charged that the United States is making efforts to disintegrate the country in order to gain control over its oil resources. Yemeni Revolution Salvation Front spokesman, Sultan al-Samei, told Al-Alam news channel on Tuesday that the US is seeking to reinforce its military presence in Yemen under the pretext of […]

U.S. Aircraft Carriers Departing Persian Gulf

The latest Stratfor Naval Update map suggests that reports speculating a potential Israeli attack on Iran has been delayed until next year are accurate. With the U.S. having positioned numerous aircraft carriers and other warships in the Persian Gulf, it now appears at least some of them are departing. Click for enlargement. Only last month […]

The End of the Saudi Oil Reserve Margin

Riyadh is less and less able to cushion supply shocks as it consumes more and more of its own oil. President Obama’s sanctions plan on Iran follows an old Mideast policy playbook. Western moves against an oil-exporting country take place with the cooperation of Saudi Arabia. U.S. strategy requires the Saudis to ramp up production […]

World population to reach 9.3bn by 2050

The world population of seven billion will increase to 9.3 billion by 2050, with most of the growth in big cities in Africa and Asia, the UN has projected. The population division of the UN’s Economic and Social Affairs department said the planet’s urban population, now at 2.6 billion, will increase to 6.3 billion of […]

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