U.S. on track for record oil production in 2015

American oil production is booming — despite the crash in crude oil prices. Rystad Energy estimates U.S. oil production will average 9.65 million barrels per day in 2015, exceeding the previous all-time record set in 1970. It’s an unusual time to have a record-breaking year. The world currently has too much oil. The supply glut […]

Extinction Radio: Carolyn Baker/ Nature Bats Last/ Guy McPherson

Indepth Interview: Carolyn Baker/ Nature Bats Last/ Guy McPherson European

The Collapse phenomenon

Michael Ruppert’s last book, first starring film role and ascendancy to the national stage in 2009 Michael C. Ruppert, who died one year ago this week, was an icon of the peak oil and sustainability movements. A narcotics cop turned independent journalist, he distinguished himself as a determined and intrepid follower of the truth, wherever […]

Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Extend the Age of Oil

Last fall, as oil prices crashed, Ali al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s petroleum minister and the world’s de facto energy czar, went mum. He still popped up, as is his habit, at industry conferences on three continents. Yet from mid-September to the middle of November, while benchmark crude prices plunged 21 percent to a four-year low, Naimi didn’t […]

Free fall in oil prices could fuel recession

At $10 a barrel of oil, your gas would be cheap, but your job could be gone. Oil producers would cease operations because they would not be able to turn a profit, which translates to a loss of jobs and a hit to the economy. After all, oil production is a driver of income growth, […]

Jihadists attack Iraq’s largest oil refinery

Islamic State militants on Saturday launched suicide attacks against the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq’s largest, a senior army officer said. The jihadist group claimed it broke in but the Iraqi army said the site, which has been the scene of fierce battles since IS swept across the region last year, remained under its control. “Today […]

LA: Groundwater Levels Plummet

New laws intended to safeguard California’s dwindling groundwater largely exclude crucial basins in Los Angeles and Orange counties, on the grounds that local monitoring systems for them are already in place. But that is not keeping their water levels from descending to historically low levels, NBC4 has learned. “The system has worked until now,” said […]

India: Groundwater levels plummet

Scanty rainfall this year could worsen the situation. The average depth to water level was 9.59 mbgl in July this year, against the 7.39 mbgl last year, calculated from 11 locations in the city. The groundwater situation in the city and surrounding areas might become alarming if copious rains do not drench down the city […]

The Next Crime Wave in Farm Country: Stealing Water

Madera County sits smack in the middle of the state, and it’s mostly farms. As in many parts of the Valley, wells have gone dry here and water prices have soared. Thieves, who’ve been increasingly targeting rural farms, are starting to understand that anything water-related is a potential bonanza. “They’re taking the water hoses, taking […]

California delta’s water missing amid drought

As California struggles with a devastating drought, huge amounts of water are mysteriously vanishing from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — and the prime suspects are farmers whose families have tilled fertile soil there for generations. A state investigation was launched following complaints from two large agencies that supply water to arid farmland in the Central […]

Saudi Arabia Maneuvers to Retain Oil Crown

Saudi Arabia is struggling to maintain its share of the global oil market in a contest that pits the world’s largest crude exporter against traditional allies in the U.S. and Persian Gulf. The Saudi kingdom’s oil exports declined 5.7% in 2014 compared with 2013. Oil shipments to its fastest-expanding customer, China, reached their lowest levels […]

Access to water supply will be a defining issue of 21st century

Ireland’s recent experience of the politics of water introduces us to a worldwide trend which is set to become one of the defining issues of the 21st century. Water is an essential element of life but it is a scarce resource, under pressure from transboundary conflicts, climate change and capitalist growth policies. In her book […]

Perspectives on Development and Population Growth in the Third World by OG Simmons

Until the early to mid-1970s, social scientists in the fields of population and development were largely going their own ways. Demographers relied almost exclusively on demographic transition theory as their para­ digm for understanding the role of development in population change and fertility decline. Conversely, most development economists and other specialists were certainly aware of […]

Heinberg: Feed Yourself

Five percent of the world’s oil tanker capacity is waiting to load up near Basra Iraq, where production is way up. The United States has only one month of oil storage capacity left. After that, what comes in must go straight to market, likely for as little as $20 a barrel. Is peak oil dead? And […]

Colin Campbell: Changing Human Circumstances

Introduction Children are born to mothers, and most spend their early lives as family members. They gradually become aware of their circumstances which they perceive to be normal whether living in an African rain forest or Manhattan, but pressures for change mount as they grow older. Some try to find a successful role in their […]

Who Will Control The World’s Water: Governments Or Corporations?

Water is perhaps the world’s most important resource, and one of the most common resources. For decades water was regarded as a common good, and it was plentiful enough that in most parts of the world there was little money to be made off of it. Now as the world’s population continues to grow, all […]

India: We will build our own Fusion Reactor

The Indian government has just given a major boost to domestic nuclear fusion research, by sanctioning the expenditure of Rs 2,500 crore (around $400 million by my calculation) as seed money, to spur interest in fusion research. According to The Times of India; India is presently one of the seven partner countries in world’s biggest […]

Activists Who Scaled Shell’s Arctic-Bound Oil Rig Refuse to Leave

Six Greenpeace activists who brazenly scaled a Royal Dutch Shell oil drilling ship bound for the Arctic Monday say they are refusing to leave despite a legal injunction against them. “The injunction is just the latest intimidation tactic on the part of Shell,” Aliyah Field, one of the six activists on board the ship, told […]

Russia Wasting Millions of Tonnes of Oil From Leaking Pipes

Russia’s ageing and leaking pipelines are wasting millions of tonnes of oil a year, causing widespread environmental damage that largely goes unreported, according to Greenpeace Russia. The pressure group says the problem is getting worse as Russia battles against falling oil prices and continued Western sanctions at a time when its pipelines need urgent repairs […]

Drilling for oil as water runs short

Manicured lawns will give way to arid, drought-tolerant landscaping. Homeowners will retrofit bathrooms with low-flow toilets. Golf courses, cemeteries, and college campuses will turn off the sprinklers. As the Golden State braces for a historic, four-year drought to continue into the summer, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is imposing unprecedented measures to fight a water shortage […]

Oil Find Excites Britain

Oil fever gripped Britain on Thursday after a small company announced the discovery of what it described as “a possible world-class potential resource” in the Surrey countryside south of London near Gatwick Airport. The company, UK Oil and Gas Investments, said an evaluation by an American company, Nutech, of a well drilled by the British […]

North America’s changed energy supply situation according to BP

In June 2014 BP presented its latest Statistical Review of World Energy. Now, in March, they have used these statistics to make estimates of future energy use. The results were presented in BP Energy Outlook 2035. This year, BP has made a special analysis of North America, i.e. Canada, the USA and Mexico. But before […]

China to built Pak-Iran natural gas pipeline

As Iran is about to sign a nuclear deal, Pakistan will also get the benefit of that in shape of Pak-Iran natural gas pipeline which is expected to be built by China. According to Wall Street Journalist, the agreement of building the pipeline will be signed when Chinese president Xi Jinping will pay a visit […]

Annual oil demand seen growing up to 1 mln bpd

The slide in oil prices is only temporary as global oil demand is expected to grow annually by up to 1 million barrels per day (bpd) while world consumption is likely to increase to 105 million bpd in 2025, an adviser to Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said on Thursday. “The current decline in oil prices […]

Crop yields can’t be increased anymore: world hunger imminent

April 10, 2015 09:30 Lester Brown Download video (237.64 MB) With the population of 7 billion people living on planet Earth – and that number could increase tenfold in the coming decades – the dwindling resources of our world become a major concern, for the poor as well as the rich nations. Scientists warn of […]

Could A Giant Magnet Help Power The World?

San Diego-based General Atomics unveiled on Friday the beginning of work on a magnet more than four stories tall. This magnet’s job is an even taller order. It’s designed to make good on the clean energy promise of nuclear fusion. By Katie Schoolov John Smith, the General Atomics engineer in charge of a project to […]

The EIA’s International Energy Outlook 2014

Last year I posted a lot of data published in the EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2014 published in May of last year, and the next one is due out Tuesday April 14. We are looking forward to that. But the EIA’s International Energy Outlook 2014, published last September, completely slipped by me. How did I miss […]

CIA Director Says the War on Terror May Never End

Last night, Director of Central Intelligence John Brennan participated in a question-and-answer session at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. The first thirty-seven minutes consisted of an unusually probing exchange between Brennan and Harvard professor Graham Allison (full disclosure: Graham is a former boss of mine). Most notably, between 19:07 and 29:25 in the video, Allison pressed Brennan […]

The Burden of Denial

It occurred to me the other day that quite a few of the odder features of contemporary American culture make perfect sense if you assume that everybody knows exactly what’s wrong and what’s coming as our society rushes, pedal to the metal, toward its face-first collision with the brick wall of the future. It’s not […]

Iran Seeks Chinese Oil Firms to Get Projects Going

Iran hopes to resolve differences with Chinese energy companies on oil and gas projects in the Islamic republic, as Tehran wants to be ready to raise output quickly after a potential lifting of sanctions this year, Iranian oil officials said on Wednesday. The officials are in China this week to discuss Chinese investments in oil […]

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