• Shell Seen Raising Dividend for First Time Since 2009: Energy

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:57:48
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • Oil bargaining heads toward wire

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:57:48
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • You’ll get emails whenever I post articles on OpEdNews – OpEdNews

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    OpEdNews You'll get emails whenever I post articles on OpEdNewsOpEdNewsA published systems theorist, Dave is a member of a national speakers bureau on global warming, and speaks regularly at local, national and international conferences on sustainability, Peak Oil, global warming, corporatism, the theft of the commons, … More: continued here

  • World Premier of ‘Transition’ 2.0 film – Balham People

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    World Premier of 'Transition' 2.0 filmBalham PeopleThey seek to raise awareness locally of the effects of Climate Change, Peak Oil and the impact that human activities have on our environment. Their vision is one of a low-energy, low carbon future for Tooting and designing a Tooting Energy Descent … More: continued here

  • Why Are So Many Portland Neighbors Hungry? – Neighborhood Notes

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    Neighborhood Notes Why Are So Many Portland Neighbors Hungry?Neighborhood Notes… food in the house for tonight, let alone the three days that Emergency Management strongly recommends,” says Jeremy O'Leary, webmaster for The Dirt!, which is the website for Transition PDX, a group devoted to planning for a post-peak oil Portland.and more » More: continued here

  • The Pentagon’s giant sucking sound | Jon Talton – The Seattle Times

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    The Pentagon's giant sucking sound | Jon TaltonThe Seattle TimesSomeday, the United States will need to restructure its economy for peaceful competition in a neo-mercantilist world, to meet the national-security threats (acknowledged by the Pentagon) of climate change and peak oil. Or debt or another misbegotten …and more » More: continued here

  • The Hydrogen dream – The Oil Drum

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    The Hydrogen dreamThe Oil DrumWhat struck me was a direct reference to Peak Oil, but in the past tense, as an additional reason for a transition to renewables and H2. Even though acknowledging it, Angel Scipioni seemed not give much importance to it, stating that France had so far …and more » More: continued here

  • ‘Peak’—what? – Inquirer.net

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    'Peak'—what?Inquirer.net[even as] it has become common to speak of 'peak oil,'” the journal Biological Conservation suggests. Today's 30- to 40-year logging cycles do not provide sufficient time for forests to recover. This rule of thumb stems from a 1950s preliminary … More: continued here

  • Kyoto sunset – McGill Daily

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    Kyoto sunsetMcGill DailyTo seriously have a chance of offsetting the dangerous climate change to come, we'd have to reach peak oil by 2015, and globally reduce our consumption by twice the rate we saw during the great recession every year until we hit zero.and more » More: continued here

  • Is a Reduction in Population Numbers the only Sustainable Solution? – OilPrice.com

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    Is a Reduction in Population Numbers the only Sustainable Solution?OilPrice.comBase scenario from 1972 Limits to Growth, printed using today's graphics by Charles Hall and John Day in "Revisiting Limits to Growth After Peak Oil" http://www.esf.edu/efb/hall/2009-05Hall0327.pdf In my earlier post, I talked about how rising oil … More: continued here

  • How Not To Argue That We’re Running Out Of Oil – Council on Foreign Relations (blog)

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    How Not To Argue That We're Running Out Of OilCouncil on Foreign Relations (blog)“The idea of 'peak oil' — that global production will reach a peak and then decline — has been around for decades, with academics arguing about whether this peak has already passed or is yet to come. The typical industry response is [...]

  • Disaster Recovery and Big Government – ScienceBlogs (blog)

    Updated: 2012-01-31 15:53:34
    Disaster Recovery and Big GovernmentScienceBlogs (blog)When not writing books, serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, I run my farm with my husband, where we raise dairy goats, herbs, pastured poultry, heirloom vegetable plants, children and havoc. More: continued here

  • EU: Fracking Laws Are Adequate, For Now

    Updated: 2012-01-31 10:31:58
    In a decision that will both dismay and worry environmental campaigners and communities facing fracking across Europe, the European commission has concluded that existing laws are adequate to cover the controversial drilling technique. A new report undertaken for the Commission by the Belgian law firm Philippe & Partners, argues that there is no need for...Continue reading 'EU: Fracking Laws Are Adequate, For Now'.

  • The Best Bill Oil Money Can Buy

    Updated: 2012-01-31 01:39:58
    Earlier today, forty-four Senators introduced legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This bill would would approve the Keystone XL pipeline despite the Obama Administration’s rejection of its permit following months of intensifying protest against it and numerous studies revealing its vastly inflated economic impact. Our colleagues at Public Campaign and 350.org revealed that those...Continue reading 'The Best Bill Oil Money Can Buy'.

  • Call for Norwegian Government Pension Fund disinvestment in Shell

    Updated: 2012-01-30 22:56:46
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • Sakhalin-2 News

    Updated: 2012-01-30 22:56:44
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • American Ingenuity

    Updated: 2012-01-30 19:31:49
    My college roommate and long-time beer pong adversary sent me this.

  • Government War on Pain Medication

    Updated: 2012-01-30 19:28:59
    The first part in a three-part Radley Balko series is up at the Huffpo.  Good stuff, though hugely frustrating of course.  Watch the media for other stories on this topic — I challenge you to find one story in the regular media that discusses pain medication that has even one interview of a pain sufferer. [...]

  • Protectionism — The Worst Form of Crony Capitalism

    Updated: 2012-01-30 18:41:41
    Food activists on the Left often point to the use of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) as one of those failures of capitalism, where rapacious capitalists make money serving an inferior product.  But HFCS resulted from a scramble by food and beverage companies to find some reasonable alternative to sugar as the government has driven [...]

  • Public vs. Private

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:47:09
    Folks on the Left prefer public institutions over private ones because they percieve them as more “fair.”  But the power of lawmaking and police and prisons allows public institutions to be far more abusive than private entities could ever be.  We spent months and years torturing ourselves about accounting abuses at Enron, but these are [...]

  • Government Mal-Investment

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:24:38
    A reader sends me this editorial from Jerry Jordan at IBD.  It discusses a topic that is one of my favorites – government mal-investment.  By a thousand different mechanisms, from direct investment (Solyndra) to artificial interest rates to monkeying with price signals to economic rule-making (e.g. community banking, ethanol mandates) the government is shifting capital [...]

  • For Some, There Can Never Be Enough Government Spending

    Updated: 2012-01-30 16:39:52
    In his New York Times column, Paul Krugman blames the coming British recession on the government’s “austerity.”  In the Left’s parlance, “austerity” means the government is not spending and in particular deficit spending enough. But it turns out that a. Of 44 major economies in the world, the British have been running the highest budget [...]

  • Weaning Royal Dutch Shell off Iranian Oil

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:38:20
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • TransCanada “Violating Laws” Over KXL Jobs Claim

    Updated: 2012-01-30 10:37:12
    Later today the Republican Senator John Hoeven will try to introduce legislation seeking to bypass President Barack Obama and empower Congress to approve the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Hoeven’s bill, that would seek to take control of the Keystone decision, looks like a political non-starter.  To become law it would have to be approved...Continue reading 'TransCanada “Violating Laws” Over KXL Jobs Claim'.

  • Story linking Shell with Jewish skin lamp shades is gutter press

    Updated: 2012-01-30 06:32:50
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • Nigeria to Ask for Compensation From Shell on Bonga Spill

    Updated: 2012-01-30 06:32:48
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • Shell’s profits surge 175 per cent to $27.3 billion

    Updated: 2012-01-30 06:32:47
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • Profits at Shell set to anger drivers

    Updated: 2012-01-29 22:27:58
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • Analyst: Nova Scotia offshore just one of Shell’s interests

    Updated: 2012-01-29 22:27:56
    Shell may even go as far as paying a special dividend or buying back shares to maximize shareholder value, according to analysts at Citigroup Inc.

  • Richard Heinberg kicks off the CoDev World Community Film Fesitival

    Updated: 2012-01-28 01:21:10
    [ February 10, 2012; 5:00 am to 7:00 am. ] Village Vancouver and Vancouver Peak Oil are pleased to welcome Richard Heinberg to Vancouver as part of the CoDev World Community Film Festival. Richard is one of the world’s most effective exponents of the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels and towards a post-growth economy. Author of 10 books, including 2010′s The End of [...]

  • Nicole Foss is Back with The Storm Surge of Decentralization

    Updated: 2012-01-28 01:11:11
    [ February 2, 2012; 7:00 am to 9:00 am. ] Village Vancouver and Vancouver Peak Oil are pleased to welcome Nicole Foss, aka Stoneleigh, of The Automatic Earth back to talk about the future of our economy. She packed a lecture hall at Langara College last year with tales of impending economic collapse. Now, after the Occupy Movement launched last fall, she has [...]

  • What I Should Have Said on TV About Rail

    Updated: 2012-01-27 18:39:13
    If I were any good at the two minute sound byte interview, I would have summarized this about the superiority of the current US private rail system vs. the systems in Europe and Japan: Link here (sorry, for some reason the link did not show up the first time, probably something to do with my [...]

  • Backpage and Sex Workers

    Updated: 2012-01-27 16:17:10
    A while back I criticized the notion that Backpage was somehow responsible for murders because one guy in Detroit identified his victims from Backpage ads.  I argued that Conservatives trying to take down Backpage adult ads ostensibly to make sex workers safer should look in the mirror, given that most of the reason sex workers [...]

  • Negotiating with Sharks

    Updated: 2012-01-26 18:41:02
    How to Boil a Frog Saturday, January 21, 2012 by Jon Cooksey Up here in Canada, we’re in the middle of a sort of “dirty tricks” campaign by the federal government that’s so lame that even our right-tilting newspapers have called them out on it. The campaign is ostensibly designed to pre-empt opposition to the Enbridge pipeline, which [...]

  • One Dollar In, Fifty-Nine Out

    Updated: 2012-01-26 08:16:32
    You can SHARE this infographic on Facebook. What if you were in Vegas, and a friend told you there was a slot machine in the corner that was giving out $59 for every $1 that was put in?  You’d think the machine was broken, and that it was rigged. What if an investment advisor told...Continue reading 'One Dollar In, Fifty-Nine Out'.

  • Offshore grids: standalone lines versus combined solutions

    Updated: 2012-01-25 16:41:12
    Grids are already developing offshore, and this development will continue even though at what pace and how they will develop is still uncertain. Indeed, there are different possible configurations for a future offshore grid: it can be a simple multiplication of standalone lines that provide each a single service (either connection of generation, or connection [...]

  • The Age of Stupid: Resource Wars

    Updated: 2012-01-25 07:24:08

  • Prime Minister’s Office Tries to Silence Pipeline Critics; Labels Environmental Group“Enemy of the Government of Canada” and “Enemy of the people of Canada.”

    Updated: 2012-01-25 01:43:51
    A Whistleblower’s Open Letter to the Citizens of Canada My name is Andrew Frank. I grew up in a small town in the Okanagan valley of British Columbia. My granddad taught me how to fish. My father was a well‐respected lawyer known for his unwavering integrity, and my mother was a favourite kindergarten teacher.Both have always [...]

  • Blowing the whistle on Dirty Energy Money

    Updated: 2012-01-24 15:03:05
    On Tuesday, January 24, as Washington readies for the annual State of the Union address, more than 500 people in referee outfits are converging on Capitol Hill to “blow the whistle” on Congress. Why?  Consider these two facts: 1. The American people believe (rightly) that Members of Congress are more responsive to their campaign donors...Continue reading 'Blowing the whistle on Dirty Energy Money'.

  • Protest Against “Big Oil Corruption”

    Updated: 2012-01-24 10:37:33
    At noon today, a coalition of environmental groups, including Oil Change International and 350.org will blow the whistle of “Big Oil’s corruption” on Capitol Hill, hours before Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address. Activists will be gathering at the Capitol dressed in referee uniforms and then heading to our old friends at...Continue reading 'Protest Against “Big Oil Corruption”'.

  • Durban: The End of the Annex I/Non-Annex I Distinction

    Updated: 2012-01-22 17:18:02
    One outcome of the recent Durban climate negotiations is a non-binding agreement to reach an agreement by 2015 that will bring all countries under the same legal regime by 2020. This “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” – has opened an important window. To explain what I mean requires a brief review of some key points [...]

  • 300 years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 seconds

    Updated: 2012-01-21 02:07:29

  • West Africa oil boom overlooks tattered environmental safety net

    Updated: 2012-01-20 13:44:28
    This is a cross-post from the Center for Public Integrity. Original article available here.  Oil industry regulation lags behind as Ghana ramps up production By Christiane Badgley, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists On November 3, 2011, fishermen working near the Jubilee oil field 60 km. off the coast of Ghana spotted a large oil slick...Continue reading 'West Africa oil boom overlooks tattered environmental safety net'.

  • CANADA – The real foreign interests in the oilsands

    Updated: 2012-01-18 18:42:22
    By Terry Glavin, The Ottawa CitizenJanuary 12, 2012 China is gaining control of Canada’s natural resources. Carbon bomb for the planet. Energy insecurity for Canada. Vandy If there were a global competition for the most brazen and preposterously transparent attempt by a ruling political party to change a necessary subject of national debate with alarmist distractions and [...]

  • Is the nuclear phase-out a financially viable option for France?

    Updated: 2012-01-18 11:29:18
    Could Fukushima put an end to the French exception? Everybody in France is now talking about, and arguing for or against, a prospective nuclear phase-out. Political Candidates running for the next presidency defend their affirmative or negative position on this issue with figures published in several recent studies assessing the investment costs of an eventual [...]

  • Our leader Harper – need I say more?

    Updated: 2012-01-16 09:52:36

  • Population: The Elephant in the Room; Peak Oil Implications on Population Growth; What Level of Human Population is Sustainable?

    Updated: 2012-01-16 08:32:24
    Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:27 AM Mish Shedlock Great summary of Peak Oil and Overpopulation in relation to each other. Vandy “In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would [...]

  • Real Numbers – Enbridge financial stats are sketchy

    Updated: 2012-01-10 06:21:30
    By Rex Weyler Jan. 9, 2012 Friends .. here is an analysis regarding the claim by tar sands producers that they will lose $72 billion if they don’t get the Enbridge pipeline. This is just hype of course, for media spin, but here is some of the real numbers (with thanks to Dave Hughes). The Canadian producers claim [...]

  • The effects of Fukushima on the construction of new nuclear power plants

    Updated: 2012-01-06 17:21:57
    The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s forecasts can be used as a pre-fukushima baseline scenario. They use the year 2035 as their terminal year. This is unfortunate and potentially misleading. Many existing nuclear plants (essentially all existing U.S. plants) will retire within a few years after 2035, even if they are able to secure 20-year license [...]

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