Task Force to Kick Start Population Goals

Gathered at the Ford Foundation in New York Monday, international luminaries, family planning experts and women’s rights activists repeatedly expressed a common sentiment: “I cannot believe that we are still having this discussion today.” They were there to mark the launch of a new 26-member high-level task force to galvanise support behind the goals of […]

Oil and gas industry uses deceptive energy independence message to push U.S. exports

With gasoline scaling $4 a gallon recently, plans announced last week by international oil giant BP to export U.S.-produced crude oil ought to have Americans howling. For such a plan to be good energy policy–rather than merely profitable for the oil industry–the United States would have to be producing more than enough oil to meet […]

US ‘Solar Zones’ in Place, Ready for Big Projects

The Obama administration on Friday gave final approval to a plan that opens up 285,000 acres in 17 zones in six Western states for streamlined utility-scale solar power development. The Department of the Interior said the fast-track sites are “characterized by excellent solar resources, good energy transmission potential, and relatively low conflict with biological, cultural and […]

Oil Espionage: Traders Spy on Oklahoma Hub With Satellites, Sensors and Infrared Cameras

NPR has a look at the lengths people will go to understand oil supply dynamics at Cushing, Oklahoma (which drive the WTI price) – Oil Espionage: Traders Spy on Oklahoma Hub With Satellites, Sensors and Infrared Cameras. The bottleneck of crude stored in Cushing, Okla., has become the country’s “biggest bank vault of oil,” Businessweek’s […]

The Great Chess Game

Everyone is aware of a multitude of problems that besets our world, however the nature of these problems and why they exist is distorted by the media and by governments all over the world. Our leaders, corporate heads, military top-brass etc. all have a fairly good idea of what is really happening, they just don’t […]

Tech Talk – Iran as an exporter of natural gas

There has been much talk in the current Presidential debates about possible changes in US Energy Policy, with Governor Romney suggesting that more Federal land be opened for prospecting for oil. Historically one of the regions included in such lists has been up in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. And, perhaps anticipating the debate, […]

Huge Oil Shale Discovery in Oklahoma

Continental Resources Inc. unveiled its newest oil field with a reservoir rock of an oil-rich portion of the Woodford Shale that lies beneath oil fields tapped long ago by some of the state’s biggest oil names, including Phillips Petroleum, Noble, Hefner and Skelly Oil. The Woodford Shale Located in Oklahoma The new field is in […]

State of the Earth: Still Seeking Plan A for Sustainability

The state of the planet is grim, whether that assessment is undertaken from the perspective of economic development, social justice or the global environment. What’s known as sustainable development—a bid to capture all three of those efforts in one effort and phrase—has hardly advanced since it was first used in the 1980s and the world […]

The soaring cost of Sunday roast: Dramatic price rises are forcing families to cut back on meat, veg and fruit

Wild global weather has damaged harvests and driven up food costs Shoppers see some basic ingredients more than double in price in a year Families are giving up their traditional Sunday roast as the cost of both meat and vegetables soar. In fact, many are cutting back on fresh food altogether. Farmers and supermarkets are […]

Iran denies steep plunge in oil exports

Iran’s oil exports have remained steady in recent months, Iran’s OPEC governor said on Saturday, denying a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) that Iran is struggling to arrest a decline in its oil sales. In a report on Friday, the IEA estimated Iran’s exports falling to a new low of 860,000 barrels per […]

IEA Sees Oil Supply Rising as Demand Growth Slows to 2017

Global oil markets will become better supplied in the next five years as demand growth slows and production rises in North America and the Middle East, according to the International Energy Agency. Worldwide fuel demand is projected to gain 1.2 percent annually to 95.7 million barrels a day in 2017, from 89 million last year, […]

Current IMF Growth Forecasts

The above is from the IMF’s recent World Economic Outlook and shows their projection for global economic growth over the next few years.  They are currently projecting growth between 3 and 4% as the most likely case with some possibility of both higher and lower. About eighteen months ago I took a look at then IMF projections […]

BP to export US crude to Canada, Shell seeks permit

Oil major BP Plc has secured U.S. government permission to ship U.S. crude oil to Canada, and Royal Dutch Shell has applied for an export license, as rising production in the world’s top oil consumer upends global energy flows. A surge in output from shale oil reserves in the Bakken of North Dakota and Eagle […]

New oil sheen in Gulf worries BP

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is causing new headaches for BP and has prompted coastal communities and members of Congress to call for more oversight from the U.S. government. Confirmation that an oil sheen reported last month is consistent with oil from BP’s blown-out Macondo well comes at a crucial time, just as talks […]

Fukushima update by Arnie Gundersen: fill it with concrete and wait

Gundersen on WBEZ Worldview discusses the current status of Fukushima with Gerome McDonald. They discuss Hillary Clinton and the current administration’s intervention in Japanese politics to persuade them to continue on with their nuclear program. NPR

Australia Needs to Push Unconventional Energy Sources

Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Australia chairman said Thursday that the country must take advantage of unconventional fuel production methods if it is to meet its energy needs and benefit from growing demand in Asia, calling for reason to triumph over emotion in a debate over the environmental impact of new techniques. “In Australia, unconventionals bring the […]

Peak-Oil Party Platform Runs for Galician Elections

200 specific measures focus on public administration, economy, education, energy, housing, rural areas, agriculture, transportation, taxes, public health and public awareness The “Partido da Terra” (“Land Party” or “Earth Party”) is the first political organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Party) to run an election platform based on the Oil Depletion Protocol. The party, which also defends direct democracy and […]

Sweet oil flows to U.S. will dry up by 2014

U.S. imports of light, sweet crude oil – mostly West African – will fall to virtually zero by 2014 as rising domestic shale oil production and refinery closures sap demand, according to an executive of Total’s trading arm. New U.S. shale provinces are now pumping more than a million barrels per day (bpd)and the hydrocarbons […]

Food Security Through Modern Agriculture

The Alliance to Feed the Future is helping to highlight the challenges of feeding a growing world population and solutions offered by modern agricultural and food processing practices by hosting a variety of educational events and launching a video series as part of activities leading up to and surrounding World Food Day, October 16 and […]

Colin Campbell on Peak Oil

I am pleased to introduce Dr. Colin Powel who is a world renowned geologist, oil adviser, author, and expert on Peak Oil. As fortune would have it, Dr. Campbell also wrote the introduction of my first nonfiction book, “Death of a Gas Guzzler”. In this video Dr. Colin J. Campbell discusses world oil supplies and […]

T. Boone Pickens: Natural gas should be next fuel

Natural gas is T. Boone Pickens’ energy source of choice these days. In a presentation Monday to The Daily Advertiser’s Editorial Board, the well-known billionaire oil man outlined a plan to become more energy-independent by using a resource that lies in abundance under North America. Pickens presented the idea of cutting fuel costs while becoming […]

Why You Don’t Want an Electric Car…Yet

In a recent New York Times Magazine article, “Why Your Car Isn’t Electric,” Maggie Koerth-Baker works through why consumers prefer gas cars over electric vehicles (EVs). She finds that Americans aren’t flocking to EVs because they have a fundamentally different idea of what a car should be. Consumers want vehicles that perform (and cost) like […]

Saudi Arabia incapable of influencing oil market

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EIA sees US natural gas production up in 2012, 2013

The U.S. Energy Information Administration on Wednesday said it expected domestic natural gas production in 2012 to be up nearly 4 percent from 2011’s record levels. In its October Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook, the EIA said it expected marketed natural gas production in 2012 to rise by 2.6 billion cubic feet per day […]

Water Is the Next Global Problem

The world is on the verge of the greatest crisis it has ever faced. Worsening water security will have irreversible consequences on ecosystems, livelihoods and the global economic system. The ever-expanding water demand by the world’s growing population and economy has made water scarcity a reality in many parts of the world. We are witnessing […]

Population the Only Problem

Robert Gordon, of Northwestern University, has aroused fear among conventional commentators with his paper (NBER Working Paper 18315) suggesting that US economic growth has begun to slow inexorably, and that it will cease altogether, slowing to the sluggish levels prevailing before the Industrial Revolution, by 2100. To some extent, these arguments are familiar, having appeared […]

OPEC says ample oil supply to persist in 2013

Global oil demand is looking weaker than previously forecast as the slowing economy continues to weigh on consumption, according to monthly reports released on Wednesday by the U.S. government and OPEC. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries trimmed its forecast for growth in world oil demand in 2013 by 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) […]

In the energy business, constant change is the new normal

Peak oil? That’s so yesterday. U.S. energy independence? No longer unthinkable. Natural gas glut? Don’t bet on it any more. Railway tankers? Add them to your watch list. Who said the energy business is boring? Long-standing tenets and assumptions are being ripped up faster than an application for a pipeline through a nature reserve. New […]

Oil Find Offers Hope for Ireland

For the first time in its long flirtation with prospectors, Ireland looks to be on the verge of securing some revenue from oil. Providence Resources Plc, an Irish and UK listed company, has confirmed that its Barryroe site 30 miles off the Cork coast, should yield 280m barrels of oil. Depending on the market value […]

Forget Renewables, We Need Cheap Oil – An Interview with Gail Tverberg

What does our world’s energy future look like? Does renewable energy feature as much in the energy production mix as many hope it will? Will natural gas and fracking help reduce our dependence upon oil and how will the world economy and trade fare as supplies of cheap oil continue to dwindle?  To help us […]

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