We have entered the era of ‘tough oil’

The debate about “peak oil” is certain to continue, but Michael Klare, a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, says we are now entering the era of “tough oil”. As he describes it in his book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (Holt Paperbacks, 2009), ”easy […]

Nations rethink drilling in wake of BP oil spill

Britain has doubled rig inspections. Bulgaria scrapped plans for a new oil pipeline. Chinese and French oil giants are upgrading equipment and procedures designed to prevent spills. As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, nations around the globe are taking a cue from this cautionary tale and ratcheting up their oversight of […]

Noam Chomsky on U.S. poilicy towards Iran

Noam Chomsky tell us the real reason for U.S. aggression towards Iran. In summary, the U.S. “owns the world” and Iran is suppose to be a “U.S client-state.”

Obama’s address on the Gulf oil spil

Good evening. As we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. At home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American. Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al-Qaida wherever it exists. And tonight, I’ve returned […]

Prince of Wales calls for population control in developing world

“In the next 50 years, we face monumental problems as the figures rocket.” The Prince said the Earth could not “sustain us all”, particularly if a “vast proportion” is consuming natural resources at “Western levels”. “It would certainly help if the acceleration slowed down, but it would also help if the world reduced its desire […]

Chief Scientist lends voice to “Peak Oil” warnings

After famously stating that the threat from climate change is graver than that posed by terrorism, former government chief scientist Sir David King has this week issued another stark warning, arguing that oil supplies could peak far sooner than anticipated by politicians and businesses. Speaking this week in his role as director of the Smith […]

Obama hints at consequences of ‘Peak Oil’ phenomenon without mentioning it by name

Without directly using the term “Peak Oil,” the president has on at least two occasions in recent days referred to the dangers facing us if we continue our dependence on oil at present rates. Wikipedia defines Peak Oil as “the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which […]

Chinese hiding three million babies a year

A growing number of rich Chinese also pay fines in order to have a second child. But for parents who do not comply with the law, the penalties can be harsh. Workers in state-owned companies can lose their jobs. Others face huge fines, the possible demolition of their homes, or even a prison term. “When […]

How We Can End Our Addiction to Oil

Richard Heinberg of Post Carbon Institute said it best: “This is what the end of the oil age looks like. The cheap, easy petroleum is gone; from now on, we will pay steadily more and more for what we put in our gas tanks—more not just in dollars, but in lives and health, in a […]

UK Energy minister to Hold Peak Oil Summit

“Government has gone from the BP position – ’40 years of supply left, the price mechanism works, no need to worry’ – to ‘crikey’,” he said. “BP and others are telling us that, but you lot, Virgin, Scottish and Southern, and others are telling us something completely different. We do not know who to believe. […]

Peak Oil and Apocalypse Then ‎

JG: Predatory militarism is the result of desperation and temptation. In the Japanese case, the element of desperation prevailed. As a consequence of their own ill-conceived policies, they saw no other choice in 1941 than to loot oil from the East Indies, even at the cost of starting a suicidal war with the United States. […]

US National Security Strategy Includes Food and Energy Priorities

The strategy also outlined the importance of improving the U.S. economy for national security “through better education, national debt reduction, a stronger U.S. clean energy industry, greater scientific research and a revamped health care system,” the news service reports (Gearan/Loven, 5/27). In an introduction to the strategy (.pdf), President Barack Obama writes that the U.S. Armed […]

Peak Oil Panel Discussion – ASPO Ireland

ASPO Ireland Director, Richard O’Rourke, is invited to respond to the Minister’s criticism that ASPO Ireland has not been good at lobbying government.

Rocky Mountain Institute: Fuel Without Fear

We are engaging powerful partners across four key sectors—buildings, transportation, industrial design and electricity—to understand and vault the barriers to shifting from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. Although that transition will take decades to complete, and not all its details can be fully foreseen, big gains can start now. Building on our 2004 synthesis […]

US Congress proposes to quadruple tax on oil

The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund has about $1.5 billion available. Under current law, only $1 billion can be spent from the fund on a single incident. The bill would increase the spending limit to $5 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the tax increase was hastily put together, without adequate study, to help […]

British Columbia Energy Minister acknowledges peak oil

Peak oil is the point when global oil production will start going down because of diminishing global supplies. Lekstrom replied that staff are following the peak oil debate. “There are people that think we have plateaued or peaked, and there are others that don’t,” he said, according to Hansard. “So it’s an ongoing debate, and […]

BP’s Crimes And Obama’s Lack Of Leadership

The first signs of active and organized public protest have come in the form of a candlelight vigil in New Orleans, marking the 30th day of the oil leak. Much like the leak stoppage and oil recovery efforts, as well as the wildlife protection and general disaster management efforts, the federal government was notable uninvolved. […]

Saudi King slams intelligence leak

The King of Saudi Arabia has strongly criticized the country’s intelligence officials for disclosing a secret document, which shows Riyadh has links with terrorist activities carried out by al-Qaeda in Iraq. According to a report by Iraq’s Buratha news agency on Friday, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz ordered a special committee to investigate the intelligence […]

Iran to officially accept nuke deal

Also on Friday, IRNA quoted a top Iranian cleric as saying that the deal was a “powerful response” that “put the ball in the West’s court.” He reportedly stated that far from being a ploy meant to facilitate enrichment for military use, the deal should be seen as a confidence-building measure. Meanwhile in Turkey, UN […]

Dr. Noam Chomsky – Collapse of Climate Talks – Change & Obama

This is the original English version of the interview with Naom Chomsky at the University of Mainz/Germany on March 24, 2010. Just click on the headline above. In this 40-minute interview with Kontext-TV Chomsky talks extensively about Barack Obama as a centrist Democrat, the threats against Iran, Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones in Africa and the Middle East, […]

US Climate Bill May Cut Oil Imports 40%

If Kerry and Lieberman’s climate-change bill became law, oil imports in 2030 would likely fall to a range of 6.6 million to 7.4 million barrels, or 9 percent to 19 percent below the business-as-usual estimate, the report said. Kerry and Lieberman’s legislation revamps a cap-and-trade bill that stalled in the Senate after narrowly passing the […]

Obama and the Oil Spill

Sadly, President Obama seems intent on squandering his environmental 9/11 with a Bush-level failure of imagination. So far, the Obama policy is: “Think small and carry a big stick.” He is rightly hammering the oil company executives. But he is offering no big strategy to end our oil addiction. Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman […]

Israel plays wargame assuming Iran has nuclear bomb

Though the wargame saw Iran declaring itself a nuclear power in 2011, the ensuing confrontations were by proxy, in Lebanon. In one, emboldened Hezbollah guerrillas fired missiles at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv. That was followed by U.S. and Israeli intelligence findings that Iran had slipped radioactive materials to its Lebanese cohort, to assemble […]

Big Oil Overseers Snorting Cocaine & Having Sexual Affairs At Big Oil Parties!

Rep Earl Blumerauer (D) Oregon says Gov’t Regulators are snorting cocaine & having sexual affairs with oil companies! May 14, 2010 MSNBC Keith Olbermann

As US oil spill grows, so does anger and desperation

US President Barack Obama lashed oil companies Friday for trying to divert blame for the Gulf of Mexico slick and vowed to sever the “cozy” ties between the industry and government regulators. Meanwhile, ecologists and fisherman can do little else but wait and watch.

Will Nothing Get Us Off Oil?

The US represents barely 5% of the world’s population yet we consume 25% of the world’s energy. Contained within our boarders is about 2% of the world’s known oil reserves. The math simply isn’t sustainable. We are getting our addiction fed from wherever we can get the oil. Much of the Amazon Basin, the lungs […]

Sarah Palin: ‘We Need to Keep Drilling’

“We need to keep drilling because if we don’t drill for a year, we’re going to be more and more reliant on foreign countries that have even less stringent environmental standards,” Palin told ABC News. Millions of gallons of oil continue to spew into the Gulf from the rig, which exploded on April 20 and […]

Oil Drilling without Permits

The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species — and despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have on the […]

Kerry, Lieberman Promote Offshore Oil, Coal, Nukes, Offsets in New “Climate” Bill

In introducing the “American Power Act” on May 12, 2010, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) seemed oblivious to the various public relations disasters the industries favored in their bill had suffered in recent weeks. In short order, we have witnessed: an explosion at a Massey coal mine in West Virginia, in which […]

US Senate Gets Climate and Energy Bill

The long delayed and much amended Senate plan to deal with global warming and energy was unveiled on Wednesday to considerable fanfare but highly uncertain prospects. After nearly eight months of negotiations with lawmakers and interest groups, Senators John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, produced a 987-page bill […]

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