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Califonia: New power plant wins energy panel’s approval

June 16, 2003

State energy officials cleared the way for one of the largest new power plants to be built in California since electricity deregulation with approval Wednesday of a power plant near Tracy that will produce enough energy for 1,000 homes.

Asian stocks fall

staff reporter, International News, Pakistan

June 2, 2003

Asian stock markets were mostly lower Wednesday amid continuing concerns about high oil prices and the impact this could have on the global economy.

Ghawar Is Dying

Chip Haynes, The New Colonist

May 29, 2003

“Ghawar is dying.” Could those three simple words signal the beginning of the end for the industrialized human civilization on Planet Earth?

Nanotech Key To Future Energy Solutions, Nobelist Says

Richard Mullen, Nano News

May 19, 2003

A global-scale energy crisis looms ahead, according to Nobel laureate Richard E. Smalley, who said that nanotechnology will figure centrally in providing technological solutions.

The Petroleum Plateau

Richard Heinberg, Museletter

April 30, 2003

The realization that modern industrial society is approaching the peak in available net energy to fuel the economy is a powerful shock to one’s entire belief system.

Global Climate Change and Peak Oil – Part One

Dale Allen Pfeiffer, From The Wilderness

April 12, 2003

FTW Science Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer sets out a detailed picture of the climate change issue and its paramount importance. Part two will consider the dreadful convergence of global climate change and the peak of global oil production.

Citizens Committee on Oil Peak And Decline: A Statement On Global Oil Peak

Mark Sardella, COPAD

March 21, 2003

The Statement is designed to be published in national and local newspapers, news magazines, the United Nations, NGO newsletters, and any other organ of public discussion.