Saudi police open fire on civilians as protests gain momentum

Pro-democracy protests which swept the Arab world earlier in the year have erupted in eastern Saudi Arabia over the past three days, with police opening fire with live rounds and many people injured, opposition activists say. Saudi Arabia last night confirmed there had been fighting in the region and that 11 security personnel and three […]

Sudan: Oil Conflict Threatens to Break Out

 The communities living on the South Sudan-Sudan border may face genocide if the conflict between the two countries disputing control of oil reserves is not resolved. There have been recent clashes between the Sudanese army, Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states, as […]

Kunstler: Here Come the OWSers!

     All last week across the media landscape, in pod, blog, flat-screen, and crunkly old newsprint columns, fatuous professional observers complained that the Occupy Wall Street marchers “have no clear agenda” or “can’t articulate their positions.” What impertinent horseshit. I saw a statement on one OWSer’s sign that said it all: $70,000 College Debt […]

New Dept. of Energy Priority-Setting Analysis Seriously Flawed

The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently issued a report called Report on the first Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR), which has as its purpose helping the DOE choose among conflicting priorities. The new report sets priories based on a distorted view of the future. One issue is that it is trying to set priorities based on an […]

Five public health challenges of petroleum scarcity

It was the easy oil—that’s what fueled our prosperity. Economists associate the availability of abundant inexpensive energy with economic growth, suggesting that the modern era’s rising tide of global wealth—and health—was borne up largely on a sea of cheap oil. “We’ve been living for 150 years on a fossil fuel bubble,” is how Stuart Chaitkin, MA, […]

Pakistan PM feared riots over power crisis

WikiLeaks has revealed that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani feared that the electricity shortage in the country could lead to riots as well as political insecurity. A diplomatic cable sent to Washington by then US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson on November 2, 2009 discussed the meeting between PM Gilani and US Secretary’s Advisor on Energy […]

Is The War On Terror A Hoax?

In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, all in the name of the “war on terror.” Washington’s attacks on the countries constitute naked aggression and impact primarily civilian populations and infrastructure and, thereby, constitute war crimes under law. Nazis were executed precisely […]

Orlov: Living on Stolen Time

Consider a flame; a jet of methane, forexample, injected into an oxygen-rich atmosphere and set alight. Nowtry to describe the shape and structure of the flame mathematically,in a way that will allow you to accurately predict how its shape andstructure respond to changes in various conditions—oxygenconcentration, gas pressure and so on. You will quickly discover […]

China In Search Of Energy Security: Chavez Lays Out The Welcome Mat

President Hugo Chávez has long desired to minimize his country’s economic dependence on the United States, and since China’s huge and growing energy demands have resulted in expanded business with Venezuela, he may very well get his wish. Beijing and Caracas have a history of affable diplomatic ties, which in recent years have been strengthened […]

Jeff Rubin: Governments powerless to prevent another recession

The more you hear about the extraordinary efforts that governments around the world are taking to promote economic growth, the less confident you can be in the result. With the clock ticking on a Greek default, members of the European Monetary Union are considering sweetening their bail out pot for a second time since the […]

Alexander Cockburn: Forget peak oil – America has a glut of the black stuff

I’VE NEVER believed in ‘peak oil’, the notion held with religious conviction by many on the left here that world production is topping out and will soon slide, plunging the world into economic chaos. There’s plenty of oil, with the constraints as always being the cost of recovery, as witness the vast new North Dakota […]

OPEC won’t interfere with falling oil prices, for now

Oil prices may be $20 off April’s $127-a-barrel peak but there is no panic in Riyadh, Kuwait City or Abu Dhabi. Far from it. Oil policy officials in the capitals of OPEC’s Gulf Arab price doves Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are relaxed and won’t be losing sleep if prices fall further. […]

OPEC is Hanging by a Thread

History has a knack for repeating itself. We’ve seen it happen time and again. It feels like an inevitable cycle, and there’s no immediate solution to this problem. It’s happening right now, as a matter of fact. All we need to do is take one look at the OPEC. They’re doomed to the same fate […]

Hess CEO: US In ‘Desperate Need’ Of Energy Policy

Hess Chief Executive John Hess on Tuesday railed against government inaction in forming a comprehensive energy policy, calling on the Obama administration to increase drilling permit approvals in the Gulf of Mexico and warning of an impending energy crisis. The administration, “must set a strategic vision for our country to follow,” Hess told an industry […]

Iraq signs deal to buy 18 F-16 warplanes

Iraq has signed a contract to buy 18 Lockheed Martin F-16 warplanes to bolster its air force, an adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday. The value of the deal was not immediately known, but a senior U.S. military official said recently the offer on the table for the Iraqi government was valued […]

Kunstler: Punked World

Europe is a three-card monte game and Greece is the pea and for the moment I’d guess that the pea is under a walnut shell called France. Or the French banks, to be specific. Their vaults are stuffed with Greek bond paper that is giving the whole neighborhood a headache from a stench like unto […]

China considers policy shift to boost shale gas

China may treat shale gas as separate from conventional hydrocarbons to encourage companies outside of state-owned industry to invest, government officials said on Sunday. It may also offer pricing and other incentives across the industry to further to tap the potentially huge resource. A handful of state-run energy majors now dominate the sector in China […]

Coast to Coast : 2011.09.21 – Peak Oil – Saudi Arabia & 911

Coast To Coast AM Peak Oil / Saudi Arabia & 9/11 Date: 09-21-11 Host: George Noory Guests: Richard Heinberg, Craig Hulet [Quick Info] In the first half of the program, leading educator on Peak Oil, the point at which we reach maximum global oil production, Richard Heinberg, will talk about the devastating impact it will […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: The German Army Report

In the last five or six years at least 20 major studies have been published by governmental and non-governmental organizations that either deal with or touch upon the possibility of severe energy shortages developing in the near future. Studies done by governmental entities, however, are rare for nearly all of the world’s governments still prefer […]

Oil price differentials, not emissions, the key to Keystone

If activists fail to stop Obama from approving the tar sands pipeline, the recession could still kill the project. James Hansen, NASA’s lead climate scientist, says if TransCanada Pipeline’s Keystone XL mega-project connecting Alberta tar sand producers to Gulf Coast refineries is approved, it is game over for the planet. It certainly won’t be game […]

A Marshall Plan to Build a Smart Grid — in China

I wrote in last week’s column about the three most interesting insights into the future of grid-connected energy storage offered last week at the 2011 NAATBatt Annual Meeting and Conference by David Mohler, chief technology officer of Duke Energy.  It occurred to me after posting my article that I neglected one other important insight.  The […]

US, Saudi relationship in good shape: top US official

The key diplomatic relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States is in “good shape” despite “scratchy” disagreements over Arab Spring revolutions, a senior US official said Friday. President Barack Obama and Saudi King Abdullah also have a very good understanding, US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon said, days after new concern emerged over one […]

U.N. Security Council eases sanctions on Libya

The U.N. Security Council on Friday eased sanctions on Libya, including on its national oil company and central bank, to enable key institutions to recover after rebels won a civil war. The 15-nation council voted unanimously for a resolution that also establishes a U.N. mission in Libya to help the North African nation get back […]

What is the US up to in Iraq?

Imagine Dick Cheney’s reaction when confronted with this bit of information. Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a certified Iraqi nationalist leader and the country’s de facto kingmaker, has just called for the end of any “armed resistance” against US “invader” forces before a full US withdrawal in December 2011 – as established by the Status of […]

Australian Carbon Tax Law Introduced To Parliament

The Australian Parliament has commenced debating the new carbon tax law (dubbed Australia’s Clean Energy Future – nice title !). The debate isn’t highlighting anything new – the opposition thinks the world will end when it is introduced, the government and greens think it an essential step forward (which is true, though it doesn’t go […]

A Vision For The Post-Peak Oil Future (Pt 6)

“Peak oil and the events associated with it will be an unprecedented discontinuity in human and geologic history. Peak oil crises will soon confront societies with the opportunity to recreate themselves based on their respective needs, culture, resources, and governance responses. Peak oil will require a change of economic and social systems, and will result […]

Saleh’s offer sparks mass protests in Yemen

Tens of thousands of Yemenis in the capital chanted “No deal, no maneuvering, the president should leave”. Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have gathered in cities and towns across the country to protest what they consider President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s latest attempt to avoid stepping down. “No deal, no maneuvering, the president should leave,” protesters […]

Agenda for the 2011 ASPO-USA Conference

his week, we would like to present our agenda for the 2011 ASPO-USA Conference – Peak Oil, Energy & the Economy to be held November 2-5 (Wednesday – Saturday) in Washington DC. Wednesday is a pre-conference day featuring visits with Congressional offices and Congressional staff. Thursday will focus on the latest information on oil and […]

Arabs nations to get $58 billion to reward reform

Wealthy countries and international lenders promised more money Saturday to encourage democratic reforms in Arab nations, promising at least $58 billion. After Tunisia and Egypt ousted their authoritarian regimes earlier this year, eight of the world’s most developed economies along with rich Arab countries and a raft of development banks had pledged in May to […]

India: Time To Privatize Oil Procurement

Move over subsidies. It is time to privatize oil procurement. Doubters must realize that the telecom industry that was privatized a decade ago did not cause a steep price hike or hold the nation to ransom due to profiteering. On the contrary it has modernized communication, made telephony easier and cheaper for the common man […]

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