Peak oil review – Aug 16

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-China cooling
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

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Shale gas – expansion and regulation – Aug 17

-Is European Shale Gas the Real Deal
-Shell Seeks To Ease Ukrainian Shale Gas Legislation To Promote Production
-Industry should heed NY moves against shale boom technology
-Pennsylvania broke law on natgas water use: group

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Embodied energy: An alternative approach to understanding urban energy use

Everyone knows that it takes energy to produce anything. The energy used in mining, transport, processing, manufacturing, delivery, and disposal is “embodied” in every product we consume, from food to diapers to televisions and insurance policies. Our traditional way of looking at energy, however, highlights only current consumption, traditionally disaggregated into agricultural, industrial, transportation, commercial, and residential sectors.

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Peak oil review – Aug 9

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Macondo well
-In the Congress
-Peak Coal?
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

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The NCSL’s Energy Summit – The good, the bad, the missing

Every year the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) holds an annual conference where legislators from all over the US gather for updates on major public policy issues facing the nation. This year the organization found that issues surrounding our country’s future energy supply were becoming of such paramount importance to state governments that it set up a task force to study the issues; produced a report on meeting the energy challenges; and devoted a whole day prior to the annual meeting to an ―Energy Policy Summit‖ where some 15 speakers gave presentations on various aspects of energy.

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Breaking: New York Senate passes temporary ban on hydraulic fracturing

In a predawn vote Wednesday, New York State’s senate passed a bill that reaches beyond the debate over the environmental safety of drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale and would effectively ban almost all gas and oil drilling in the state until next spring. The bill circumvents an environmental review by the state’s regulatory agency that could be finished this year.

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Peak oil and gas prices and supplies – Aug 6

-Independent Study: Oil Shale Is a Poor Energy Source
-Scientists Cast Doubt on Claims BP Spill’s No Threat to Gulf
-Ecuador pledges no oil drilling in Amazon reserve
-Deepwater oil drilling moratorium job-loss picture is getting clearer
-We Fight for the Oil We Need to Fight for the Oil
-Oil company, law enforcement block media access to public sites hit by Michigan oil spill

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Different takes on peak oil, same result – price spikes predicted

Two must-read interviews with energy market investors both point to a coming demand-driven spike in oil prices, despite professing differing views on peak oil.

Rick Rule, founder of Global Resource Investments, Ltd., speaks of “sharply higher world oil prices in the next 5 years,” and Charles Maxwell, senior energy analyst for Weeden & Co. that “oil will reach at least $150 a barrel around 2015.” It’s interesting that, despite professing different takes on the concept of peak oil, they end up at remarkably similar conclusions about demand outstripping supply within the next few years.

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Europe and natural gas – Are tough choices ahead?

In Europe, natural gas has great importance. Many people believe (some countries even instituted policies) that it will be the fuel that will become the bridge to an energy future with less reliance on coal and nuclear power. Furthermore, in 2009, about 26% of the primary energy consumption of the 27 members of the European Union came from natural gas, making it a very important fuel today.

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Peak oil review – Aug 2

A weekdly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Macondo well
-In the Congress
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs

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