Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
– Biofuels become a victim of own success – but not for long
– Brazil, short of biofuel, can’t open spigot to US
– Keystone XL pipeline: Oil chief issues threat to Obama over decision
– Oil sands pipeline battle turns ugly
– Arab News: Renewables making inroads in emerging global energy mix
The Japanese government is launching a large-scale cleanup of the fields, forests, and villages contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. But some experts caution that an overly aggressive remediation program could create a host of other environmental problems.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Iranian confrontation
-Problems for “Big oil”
-Nigeria
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
– Exxon ‘loses’ Venezuela nationalisation case
– Western Oil Firms Remain as US Exits Iraq
– The US-Iran Economic War
– Japan to Express Concerns to U.S. Over Possible Iranian Oil Ban
– Complete with Threats and Astroturf, Big Oil Preps for Election Year Push
– TV: I Vote 4 Energy (spoof of API ad)
– Canada: Climate Criminal
– Why is an oil stock owning Congress member pushing to end EV tax credits?
The New Year failed to ring in the customary changes this time round. The great economic hangover moves into its fourth year with many predicting that things will take a turn for the worse during 2012. Geopolitically, the standoff between the West and Iran escalated over the holiday, hoisting oil prices over $113/barrel once again.
Co-operatively-owned energy generation is a vibrant and growing sector in the UK. The first co‑operatively-owned wind turbines, Baywind in Cumbria, started turning in 1997. Since then, over 7,000 individual investors have ploughed over £16 million into community-owned renewable energy. This report summarises insights gained from visits to five co-operatively owned energy projects during the summer of 2011.
A recent thrust on Do the Math has been to sort our renewable energy options into “abundant,” “potent,” and “niche” boxes. This is a reflection of my own mathy introduction to the energy scene, the result of which convinced me that we face giant—and ultimately insurmountable—hurdles in our quest to continue a growth trajectory. It is not obvious that we will even manage to maintain today’s energy standards…Meanwhile, requests for me to address the nuclear story are mounting. So before readers become mutinous, I should interrupt the renewable thread to present my nuclear reaction.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Iranian confrontation
-Trouble in Baghdad
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
– White House, GOP Battle for Supremacy on Tar Sands Pipeline
– Interview with peak oil journalist and novelist Kurt Cobb
– Hunt for Gas Hits Fragile Soil, and South Africans Fear Risks
– In conversation with peak oil pioneer Dr. Colin J Campbell (video)
– Steve LeVine’s Oil and the Glory: End-of-year edition
– Oil will decline shortly after 2015, says former oil expert of International Energy Agency
– World Pays Ecuador Not to Extract Oil from Rainforest
– ‘Terrible’ and Plenty of It: The Oil That Comes in from the Cold
– Half of America In Poverty? The Facts Say It’s True
– Financial apocalypse 2012
– Petras: A Doomsday View of 2012
– Steiglitz: US must shift its economy or risk a tragic replay of 80 years ago.
