On 29th October the Irish Times ran an article in the Business section summarising the findings of a leaked report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). A longtime skeptic of peak oil, the IEA has over the last year conducted a review of the world’s oil producing fields for it’s upcoming World Energy Outlook 2008 report […]
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Frustrated by the UK governments denial and lack of response to the Peak Oil issue, a UK Industry task force on Peak Oil & Energy Security has been established by a group of independent companies including Arup, FirstGroup, Virgin Group, SolarCentury, Yahoo! and others. You can read the full report here. Within the executive summary […]
On 5th September I attended a workshop called “The Future of Food” at the Terra Madre food conference in Waterford. Facilitated by Colin Sage from University College Cork, the subject was, of course, about how we might feed ourselves without cheap oil and gas. I consider myself up to speed on Peak Oil, but this […]
Apparently in the US right now there are shortages of gasoline in many states. This is a result of a loss in refinery capacity due to impacts of the hurricane season. If there was a run on the pumps and everyone topped up their tanks the US would be out of Gasoline! Whilst not directly […]
Richard Heinberg is one of the world’s foremost educators on Peak Oil and author of “The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the fate of Industrial Societies”. Here he explains Peak Oil clearly and to the point in this 4 minute clip. You can see more of Heinberg’s work here on his blog site and here […]