Opposition Builds Against Venezuelan President

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called supporters to take to the street tomorrow, hours after an opposition politician sought by police urged his allies to march with him on the same day. Leopoldo Lopez, the leader of opposition party Voluntad Popular, whom Maduro accuses of inciting violence, urged Venezuelans to dress in white and march with […]

Oil Firms Seen Cutting Exploration Spending

Global oil firms, hit by one of the worst years for discovery in two decades, are about to cut exploration spending, pulling back from frontier areas and jeopardising their future reserves, industry insiders say. Notable exploration failures in high-profile places such as Africa’s west coast, from Angola all the way up to Sierra Leone, have […]

Oceans in peril

Relentlessly rising human demand for deep-sea resources such as fish, gas and oil, is posing such a risk that international co-operation is needed if aquatic ecosystems are to be saved, US scientists warn. The doubling of the world’s population over the past five decades is putting great strain on the deep-sea ecosystems, they told an […]

“Peak is dead” and the future of oil supply

Peak Oil Review Commentary:  Interview with Richard G. Miller Dr. Richard G. Miller, trained as a geologist, joined BP as a geochemist in 1985. He studied peak oil matters since 1991, when BP asked him the following year to devise a wholly new way to estimate global oil resources.  In 2000, he was tasked with […]

Reaching Limits to Growth: What Should our Response Be?

Oil limits seem to be pushing us toward a permanent downturn, including a crash in credit availability, loss of jobs, and even possible government collapse. In this process, we are likely to lose access to both fossil fuels and grid electricity. Supply chains will likely need to be very short, because of the lack of […]

‘Big oil’ getting smaller as production keeps falling

* Top seven western majors all seeing liquids output fall * Supermajors’ share of global market dropping every year * BP reports fastest decline of 30% from 2009-13 * Production becoming more evenly split between oil and gas   The biggest western oil companies are continuing to see their oil output decline, despite record investment […]

DIY Home Brewing – The Home Brewery

A few years ago I started a series of essays dedicated to homebrewing (Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3 can be found here).  At the time when those articles were written I was still working in the brewing industry.  Since then, as I have alluded to in a few recent posts, I am no longer working in […]

Iran says Russia could build nuclear reactor in exchange for oil

Russia could build a second reactor at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant in exchange for Iranian oil, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow said in remarks published on Monday. Russia could also supply Iran with trucks, railroad tracks, mini-refineries or other goods to pay for the oil, ambassador Mehdi Sanaei told the daily Kommersant, under a […]

Will Future Food Shortage, Swine Flu Pandemic Or War Stem World Population Growth?

This is a particularly unpleasant subject to write about and I thought long and hard before deciding to write about my findings in the hope it will prompt others to take note and raise the issues within their families, communities and with those whom you have elected to power, so we can do something constructive […]

Five Potential Sources of Gas for Europe

In his assessment of potential sources of gas for Europe at the European Gas Conference 2014, John Roberts, Energy security Specialist, Methinks speaks, said it was too early to judge the potential of natural gas from the Eastern Mediterranean. “We know that there’s about 1TCF of reserves there, there’s probably more to be found,” he remarked. […]

Cyprus: Stepping on the gas

Italian energy giant ENI will speed up its exploratory activities in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), as it has been further encouraged by developments in the Cyprus problem. The pledge also comes after US President Barack Obama has given his full backing to the peace process and the government’s right to exploit the island’s energy […]

Saudi Arabia to supply Syrian rebels with anti-aircraft missiles

Frustrated by the deadlock of the second round of Geneva 2 talks, Saudi Arabia has reportedly offered to supply the rebels with anti-aircraft missiles. Meanwhile Russia has accused the US of once again hijacking peace talks and pushing for regime change. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Russian-made antitank guided missiles and […]

Bahrain: Blasts Hit Police 3 Years After Uprising

Explosions targeted police in Bahrain on Friday as clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters on the third anniversary of the Gulf nation’s uprising left dozens wounded, authorities and activists said. Efforts to restart on-and-off reconciliation talks between the Shiite-dominated opposition and the Sunni monarchy and its allies have so far failed to bring an […]

Fracking’s water use sets up fight with cities and farmers

It’s no secret that hydraulic fracturing in the production of oil and natural gas uses enormous amounts of water. A single well requires between 2 and 10 million gallons of water — mixed with sand and chemicals — to crack rocks deep underground and release oil or natural gas. As a rule of thumb, it […]

Noam Chomsky on Peak Oil, Bailouts, and Climate Change

(1998) Noam Chomsky on Peak Oil, Bailouts, and Climate Change

Radiation leak at New Mexico military nuclear waste site

Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened in 1999. U.S. officials were testing for radiation in air samples at the site where radioactive waste, such as plutonium used […]

We Can Be Certain Of This

Just as the addict feels “I can’t live any other way,” so we continue clinging to a way of living that is equally self-destructive because we too see no other way to live. Yesterday I discussed the intrinsic uncertainties in complex systems. (Certainty, Complex Systems, and Unintended Consequences). Amidst this sea of uncertainty we can […]

Michael Klare, In the Carbon Wars, Big Oil Is Winning

We now have an answer to why global temperatures have risen less quickly in recent years than predicted in climate change models. (It’s necessary to add immediately that the issue is only the rate of that rise, since the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998.)  Thanks to years of especially strong Pacific […]

Is This Already the End for Natural Gas Vehicles?

A joint study, published in the journal Science on Friday has revealed that natural gas as a transportation fuel provides no net benefit to the climate, when compared with diesel. The report, written by numerous researchers from some of the United States’ most prestigious universities, as well as NOAA and the Department of Energy, flies […]

Families who say their lives and communities have been destroyed by the industry

A group of photographers have spent the last several years documenting the effects of the natural gas industry on several rural communities in the Appalachian Mountains that have an abundance of natural gas deep below the surface of the earth. The team of photographers – Noah Addis, Nina Berman, Brian Cohen, Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson […]

The rampage of the top predators

I tend to think that much of what’s happening around us nowadays can be explained if you see the social system as an ecosystem. We known that ecosystems have “food chains” or “trophic cascades”. In a previous post, I argued that governments are behaving as top predators in the socio-economic system. A problem with top […]

Bahrain protest attracts tens of thousands

Tens of thousands of Bahrainis joined a peaceful demonstration on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of an abortive pro-democracy uprising led by majority Shi’ite Muslims. The rally organized by the kingdom’s main opposition al-Wefaq movement was one of the biggest staged since 2011. Vast crowds of men, women and children took to the streets […]

State of the World Population Report

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) announced its annual report, “State of World Population: The Promise of Equality, Gender Equity, Reproductive Health, and the Millennium Development Goals.” Aminata Toure, acting head of UNFPA’s Gender, Culture, and Human Rights Branch, presented the report, followed by several respondents. Members of the panel discussed global topics including poverty, gender […]

Trains That Go Boom

For most of the 14 years that Tinamarie Hatlee has lived in Ravena, N.Y., a small town south of Albany, she didn’t mind the trains that passed 50 feet from the back door of her house. They came only a few times a day and moved slowly, so the noise was bearable. But starting last […]

Bakken Update, Big Drop in December

North Dakota has published the latest production numbers. ND Monthly Oil Production Statistics (All North Dakota) ND Monthly Bakken* Oil Production Statistics (Bakken Only)   Bakken production fell 48,395 bp/d to 862,389 bp/d and all North Dakota production fell 53,226 bp/d to 923,227 bp/d. That was after Bakken November production had been revised up by […]

World’s Largest Solar Plant Comes Online

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System officially came online on February 13, becoming the world’s largest source of solar power. With a capacity of 392 megawatts, the solar system will be able to generate enough power for 140,000 homes in California. The $2.2 billion Ivanpah project is located in the Mojave Desert and is a […]

20 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Starting To Catch Fire

If you have been waiting for the “global economic crisis” to begin, just open up your eyes and look around.  I know that most Americans tend to ignore what happens in the rest of the world because they consider it to be “irrelevant” to their daily lives, but the truth is that the massive economic […]

Coal Makes A Comeback Despite Natural Gas Abundance

This wasn’t supposed to happen. Cheap natural gas was supposed to be the answer to our dependence on dirty old coal. But now, it seems, coal is making a comeback. The bitter winter, the coldest in 30 years, has pushed natural gas prices to some of their highest levels in four years, and that has […]

Peak Oil and the Effects on Public Health

This is an educational video discussing the issue of peak oil and the effects on public health.

Project envisions post oil Vegas

The demands of a changing environment are being met by the innovative students in the school of architecture. The department for landscape agriculture and planning hosted an event envisioning a post peak oil Las Vegas along with Cal Poly-Pomona, Jan. 30 in the architecture library. The event furthered a much needed dialogue on local sustainability. […]

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