Category: Energy

A Desire Named Streetcar
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A Desire Named Streetcar

When President Obama nominated Charlotte, North Carolina, Mayor Anthony Foxx to head the U.S. Department of Transportation last month, he cited among Foxx’s other relevant accomplishments “a new streetcar project that’s going to bring modern electric tram service to [Charlotte’s] downtown area.” All well and good. But honestly, if enthusiasm for downtown streetcar projects was a prerequisite for the [...]

Published by on May 18, 2013 5:00 PM
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Peak oil

Click on the headline (link) for the full text.Supply shock from North American oil rippling through global marketsInternational Energy Agency The supply shock created by a surge in North American oil production will be as transformative to the market over the next five years as was the rise of Chinese demand over the last 15, [...]

Published by on May 18, 2013 3:00 AM
Alberta’s new bold stance deserves credit
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Alberta’s new bold stance deserves credit

Albertans hurt by deep budget cuts due to shrinking provincial revenue from discounted bitumen prices may question the province’s bold buildup of its international presence. After Clark’s election victory, a fresh start for B.C. and Alberta energy debate The come-from-behind victory of Christy Clark’s Liberals in Tuesday’s British Columbia election comes as a big relief [...]

Published by on May 17, 2013 8:58 PM
Mundraub.org: Sharing our common fruit
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Mundraub.org: Sharing our common fruit

In a rural area in the former East Germany, late summer 2009: Shimmering heat, the intense odor of fermenting fruits is in the air. A tree covered with hundreds of juicy pears, and a foot-high layer of rotting fruit on the ground. A stone’s throw away – plums, mirabelles, elder bushes and every now and [...]

Published by on May 17, 2013 12:57 PM
Why I’m marking passing 400 ppm by getting back on an aeroplane
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Why I’m marking passing 400 ppm by getting back on an aeroplane

In November 2006, I sat at the back of the Barn Cinema, Dartington, and watched ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘. It had such an impact on me that by the time it ended, I had decided that I couldn’t just leave the cinema without marking the event by making some kind of change in my life. I [...]

Published by on May 16, 2013 10:57 PM
National Energy Board okays Kinder Morgan toll plan for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
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National Energy Board okays Kinder Morgan toll plan for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

CALGARY – The National Energy Board on Thursday rejected concerns that Kinder Morgan Canada Inc. is trying to extract monopoly profits from oil companies by jacking up the price of shipping crude to Canada’s West Coast. The decision, which examined how shipping fees called tolls would be set, shores up commercial support as the Canadian [...]

Published by on May 16, 2013 6:57 PM
What if there is Peak Oil?
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What if there is Peak Oil?

The Spring 2013 Semester has just ended and I am beginning to see light in the tunnel. So I can restart writing my long-neglected blog.  Many things have happened in the four months since my last entry:  Thousands upon thousands of innocent people have died in wars and ethnic/religious strife. Most of these wars have [...]

Published by on May 16, 2013 8:57 AM
Reexamining Rationing
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Reexamining Rationing

Recent interviews with Stan Cox author of Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing and book excerpt. Rationing In Our Future?Tom Ashbrook, On point, NPR A new book says rationing—of food, energy and more—is in our future. We hear the case, and the pushback. (13 May 2013) Rationing RationaleBrian Lehrer, The [...]

Published by on May 15, 2013 6:56 PM
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Oil pricing probe widens, Britain pledges tough action

LONDON — Oil companies will face the full force of the law if they manipulated prices, Britain’s energy minister said on Wednesday as a rating agency warned of massive fines if a European Commission’s probe into oil pricing found any wrongdoing. Big Oil offices raided in biggest price fixing probe since Libor European authorities have [...]

Published by on May 15, 2013 4:56 PM
Water
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Water

Click on the headline (link) for the full text.Water increasingly crucial in energy policies, experts sayNick Snow, Oil Gas Journal Energy policymakers worldwide should look beyond supply security and environmental questions and consider water resource availability if they expect to succeed, experts said May 3 during a forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for [...]

Published by on May 15, 2013 4:56 AM
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