Peak Oil’s theorists “extraordinary narrow research base”
An email from an economist expressing some reasonable concerns about the limited research available predicting or negating imminent oil peak.
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Fast Food World: Perils and Promises of the Global Food Chain (excerpt)
Q: Do you think that we have changed the carrying capacity of the earth through fossil fuels to the extent that we could not support the current population with organic agriculture free of synthetic fertilizers?
China: Hungry for Power (Part 1)
Energy crisis threatens ‘world’s factory’
UK trade deficit widens amid falling oil exports
The surplus on trade in oil fell to just £202 billion from £235m in October.
UK faces future without North Sea oil
North Sea oil, the precious resource that has contributed hundreds of billions of pounds to the UK economy, is slowly slipping into history — so should Britain panic?
U.S. regulators may look into Shell’s overstatement of oil reserves
Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s overstatement of its proven reserves of oil and natural gas by 20 percent may be enough to prompt an inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, an SEC spokesman said.
US Sec’y Abrahams in China: the Maneuvering Begins
Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said here Monday that China and the United States share broad prospects of cooperation in the field of energy.
Bush, Oil & Iraq: Some Truth at Last
Here we have former US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill disclosing that George Bush came into office planning to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and MSNBC polls its audience with the question, Did O’Neill Betray Bush?
Russian oil and gas sector growth may stop in 2007
According to LUKoil Vice President Leonid Fedun, by 2007 the Russian oil and gas sector will stop rising.
Worry grows over Shell’s reserves error
Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s disclosure that it overstated its proven reserves by 20 per cent rattled energy investors and is raising questions about whether the oil industry as a whole has inflated its prospects.
Alaska Thaws, Complicating the Hunt for Oil
DEADHORSE, Alaska . Harry Bader slogged across a patch of America’s only Arctic shore, leaning into a late December gale that filled the midday twilight with blowing snow and sent the wind chill to 40 below.
Despite the weather, Mr. Bader, the state’s land manager for the oil-rich North Slope, was consumed with one thing – the warming climate. Oil-prospecting convoys in search of new deposits are allowed to crisscross the fragile tundra only when it is snowy and solid. But over three decades, rising temperatures have cut this frozen season in half, to 100 days from 200.
OPEC mulls move to euro for pricing crude oil
OPEC is considering a move away from using the U.S. dollar — and to the euro — to set its price targets for crude oil, the highest-profile manifestation of the debilitating effect of depreciation on the greenback’s standing as the currency of international commerce.