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Stranded Assets in Oil and Gas a Reality
Stranded Assets in Oil and Gas a Reality Just a few short years ago a friend called me to chat about the possibility of stranded assets in oil and gas due to climate change and the expected legislation and new regulations that would entail. This was an interesting idea coming out of the UK at […]
Richard Heinberg on Our Renewable Future
Richard Heinberg on Our Renewable Future https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-richard-heinberg-on-our-renewable-future/ Richard Heinberg discusses our renewable future and how to get there. He is the author of ten books including: – Snake Oil (July 2013) – The End of Growth (August 2011) – Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007) – The Party’s Over: Oil, War […]
Why U.S. East Coast Should Stay Off-Limits to Oil Drilling
Why U.S. East Coast Should Stay Off-Limits to Oil Drilling It’s not just the potential for a catastrophic spill that makes President Obama’s proposal to open Atlantic Ocean waters to oil exploration such a bad idea. What’s worse is the cumulative impact on coastal ecosystems that an active oil industry would bring. by carl safina When […]
Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Israel, Gaza, and Energy Wars in the Middle East
Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Israel, Gaza, and Energy Wars in the Middle East Talk of an oil glut and a potential further price drop seems to be growing. The cost of a barrel of crude now sits at just under $60, only a little more than half what it was at its most recent peak in June 2014. Meanwhile, […]
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand?
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand? In the grand poker game of geopolitics, energy is often the wild card. That’s why the Middle East is such a mess: Great Powers (first Britain, more recently the United States) have been installing, propping up, toppling, threatening, or bribing regimes in that region — almost always to […]
Is The EU Finally Breaking Free Of Russia’s Energy Grip?
Is The EU Finally Breaking Free Of Russia’s Energy Grip? Gazprom’s dominance over European energy supplies may be beginning to slip. The collapse of oil prices has punished Gazprom’s revenues, but in a new development that is further damaging to the Russian state-owned company, the European Union is also beginning to shake itself of Russian […]
Is There Any Hope Left For Nuclear Energy?
Is There Any Hope Left For Nuclear Energy? Can nuclear help avoid the worst effects of climate change? The International Energy Agency recently provided a roadmap for nuclear power, detailing how the technology could help keep global temperature increases within a 2-degree scenario. According to the IEA report, between 2015 and 2050 total installed nuclear power […]
What Progress Means
What Progress Means Last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report appears to have hit a nerve. That didn’t come as any sort of a surprise, admittedly. It’s one thing to point out that going back to the simpler and less energy-intensive technologies of earlier eras could help extract us from the corner into which industrial society has […]
Conflicts in the food, energy, land and water nexus
Conflicts in the food, energy, land and water nexus There is growing concern over future food production and increasing competition for resources in the food, energy and water nexus are reflected in a new interest for investment in land and water. “I cannot farm myself out of this water problem,” says Mark Shannon, a farmer […]
Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us
Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us It will be a nightmare of environmental degradation and global conflict. It’s a ritual long familiar to observers of American politics: presidential hopefuls with limited international experience travel to foreign lands and deliver speeches designed to showcase their grasp of foreign […]
Starved for Energy, Pakistan Braces for a Water Crisis
Starved for Energy, Pakistan Braces for a Water Crisis Energy-starved Pakistanis, their economy battered by chronic fuel and electricity shortages, may soon have to contend with a new resource crisis: major water shortages, the Pakistani government warned this week. A combination of global climate change and local waste and mismanagement have led to an alarmingly rapid depletion of Pakistan’s […]
EU Energy Union May Be Biting Off More Than It Can Chew
EU Energy Union May Be Biting Off More Than It Can Chew With oil and gas still flooding the scene it’s a buyer’s market. For some however, picking isn’t easy. For the European Union specifically, an abundance of choice comes with its own set of logistical and geopolitical problems. February 4 marked the launch of the EU’s […]
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil The “thirst for oil” is often put forward as a near self-evident explanation behind military interventions in Libya, for instance, or Sudan. Oil, or the lack of oil, is also said to be behind the absence of intervention in Syria now and in Rwanda […]
Charts showing the long-term GDP-energy tie (Part 2 – A New Theory of Energy and the Economy)
Charts showing the long-term GDP-energy tie (Part 2 – A New Theory of Energy and the Economy) In Part 1 of this series, I talked about why cheap fuels act to create economic growth. In this post, we will look at some supporting data showing how this connection works. The data is over a very long time […]
U.S. Supply Growth To Halt This Summer
U.S. Supply Growth To Halt This Summer Everyone knows it by now but the growth in domestic US oil production has been truly astonishing. Spurred on by high oil prices and easy credit, oil companies in Texas and North Dakota have been drilling like crazy and the result has been an inexorable rise in US […]
