Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Something fishy about Saudi oil production / Suburbia’s worst enemy: Kunstler /
Brunei: time of easy, cheap oil over /
Malaysia’s leader warns tussle for energy resources may spark global crisis / Fidel Castro warns of world food crisis / Monbiot: Behind the spin, the oil giants are more dangerous than ever
Anger at oil chief’s $400m retirement package / Pelamis: a shot in the dark? (wave energy) / New Scientist report on energy and fuels / Squandering energy in the East / Mexicans cling tightly to `their’ oil
As the price of oil increased rapidly in recent years, exporting nations that had foreign oil companies operating within their borders looked at the unprecedented profits being earned by IOCs and began asking, “Why aren’t we making that money; it’s our oil?”
Peak oil attacked from the right (Free Market News) / Peak oil attacked from the left (Greg Palast) / Bill Moyers speaks to graduates about peak oil, catastrophes and confusion
An ill wind: nuclear in Australia / Brazil leads field in alternative fuel race / The Onion: Oil executives march on D.C. – ‘We just want our voices heard’ / Democrats on energy: Still a zero
Seventeen leading U.S. pension fund and other institutional investors controlling $658 billion in assets are pushing for a face-to-face-meeting with independent members of the Exxon Mobil board of directors as a result of growing financial world concerns that Exxon Mobil is “a company that fails to acknowledge the potential for climate change to have a profound impact on global energy markets, and which lags far behind its competitors in developing a strategy to plan for and manage these impacts.”
Fortune: How hedge funds, traders, and Big Oil are really driving gas prices / Greece: High time to be weaned off oil /
Indonesia: Government likely to terminate gas exports /
UK: Ex-minister hits out at nuclear
The Russian bear is back – and this time it’s gas-powered /
Chavez preaches socialism to European summit / The pipes carry clout with the oil / The real story of pricey oil / Science Magazine: More silliness on the Hill [about energy policy]
Wash. Post cites Hirsch report, says Bush knows about PO / The Oil Drum reports on PO & Environment Conference / “When the Circuit Breaks: America’s Energy Crisis” – 1975 video /
Newsweek: will we hit $100? / Physicist-author David Goodstein on peak oil / Links, links, links from TOD and Gristmill
How Cuba survived peak oil (video review) / ‘Oilway To Hell’ – downloadable video / Alaska oil consultant: Statistics point to peak production / Energy industry views on peak oil, alternative energy / CSIS Forum: Saudi oil minister Naimi and US energy secretary Bodman
MIT issues call to arms on energy /
Message for the people of the year 12006: Don’t dig here (nuclear waste) /
Shell backs away from oil reserves target / Japan joins the race for uranium amid global expansion of nuclear power
German broadcast on peak oil Tuesday May 2 /
The No. 1 energy fund’s wild (but energizing) ride /
Preparing for energy descent – 2 hrs of audio on PO /
