The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Food riots will mark the end of oil: The end of the oil age won't be a pretty thing, but a new report by Deutsche Bank suggests it could be even uglier than we feared...There's been a lot of stale argument recently about oil (Read More)
Financial Sense:
by Tony Allison. "Is the Peak Oil clock ticking closer to midnight than generally believed? The credibility and integrity of the International Energy Agency (IEA) took a hit this month after two whistle-blowers from the IEA c (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Below the fold is a guest post by John Michael Greer, author of The Long Descent, a book I recommend. The post examines the importance and viability of relocalization from a historical perspective.How Relocalization Workedby (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: studyMOSCOW (AFP) – Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's terri (Read More)
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Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers?The biannual list of the world’s 500 fastest computers was released on Tuesday and Aramco had two new entries at No. 119 and No. 134. Both are Dell clusters, running (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Richard Lambert says even the Conservatives are not ambitious enough about cutting the Britain's deficitRichard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in London (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Edward Burtynsky. Alberta Oil Sands # 6, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007. Image credit:via Blogotariat.The concept of "political peak oil" has been floating around under that name or as "geopolitical peak" (even more pre (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This is a weekly email briefing from environmentguardian.co.uk, bringing you the best news, analysis and debateSign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inboxClimate and energyExclusive: Key oil figures 'distorted by (Read More)
Financial Sense:
by Andrew McKillop. "Since late summer, several OECD country leaders in the G20 group have stridently backed their proposals for radical cuts in global CO2 emissions, by waving the spectre of 'catastrophic climate change' if (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The challenge of feeding billions of people as fuel supplies fall is staggering. And yet leaders' heads remain stuck in the sandI don't know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Virgin, Stagecoach and Yahoo among firms calling for measures to address economic dislocation from a sudden rise in oil prices An industry organisation, which includes Virgin and Yahoo among its members, has called on the gov (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Image credit: AsymmetricA looming peak oil crisis isn't the only thing we have to worry about. Jeremy has already noted that the world could be facing a severe phosphorus shortage over the coming century, a shortage that woul (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Two meticulous assessments of the decline of giant oil companiesWe live in an age of teetering empires, never quite ready to fall, eras not quite ready to end, their final crisis the subject of an ever-expanding literature of (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Yesterday the President of the largest gold mining and production company, Barrick Gold, noted that after ten years of declining production it is time to recognize that the world has seen the peak in gold production. To main (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The controversy over the International Energy Agency (IEA) figures has hightlighted the peak oil debate. What do the numbers say?• The world in energy statisticsThe question is not if the world is running out of oil, it's whe (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
• Swedish academics slate IEA's report as "political document" for countries with vested interest in low prices• Oil production 'likely to be 75m barrels a day rather than 105m'A leading academic institute has urged European (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
New market dynamics created by climate change, geological and geopolitical pressures will transform our hydrocarbon economies, write John Elkington and Gary Kendall. From ChinaDialogue, part of the Guardian Environment Networ (Read More)
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future:
Yesterday's Guardian raised questions about whether oil reserves published in the past by the IEA have been inflated. Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblowerThe world is much closer to running out o (Read More)
Peak Oil News:
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/we-entered-peak-oil-iea-source-reportedly-claims/By Stephen C. Webster Two International Energy Agency whistleblowers have come forward with startling claims about the world's supply of crude oil, (Read More)
TreeHugger:
photo: jack_spellingbacon via flickr.World oil reserves are far lower than officially reported, the situation far more serious than publicly admitted, and we're already past peak oil. That's the word from two anonymous IEA wh (Read More)