Lloyd’s Bank, the UK insurance giant, has issued a white paper entitled “Sustainable Energy Security” which urges business leaders to adopt a “transition to a low carbon economy”.

The link below will take you to a review of the paper, as well as a link to the paper itself.

It is another heartening sign that concern about peak [...]

In 1979, a deepwater oil well blew out in the Bay of Campeche.  The link below gives a quick summary of the almost 10 month spill.  In addition, there are many interesting links that investigate different aspects of the spill, including the damage that was done and the different tactics that were used to stop [...]

A Guardian article about a US Joint Forces Command report on a oil shortages by 2015.

It will be harder to write-off peak oil concerns as left-wing hysteria now that the US Military are weighing in.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/11/peak-oil-production-supply

Rick Munroe of the National Farmers Union has written a review of Larry Hughes’ study on crude oil supply in Eastern Canada.  In addition to the review, Rick has provided links to this and other studies by Dr. Hughes.

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/51695

On March 19th, 2010, the National Post ran an essay by Richard Heinberg in advance of his speaking engagement in Toronto.  The essay can be read at the link below.

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/03/19/richard-heinberg-it-s-time-to-deal-with-peak-oil.aspx

In October of 2009,  scientists from the College of Engineering and Petroleum at the Kuwait University and the Kuwait Oil Company published the study Forecasting World Crude Oil Production Using Multicyclic Hubbert Model in the ACS Energy & Fuels journal.

Articles about the study can be found at the Livescience website

http://www.livescience.com/environment/oil-production-peak-100312.html

and at the Gas2.0 website.  They [...]

Data up to October 2009 shows an annual rate of decline of Canadian marketable natural gas production since 2006 is 7.5% per year based on a 12-month centered moving average, resulting in the lowest level of production since April 1995. The chart below was made by geologist David Hughes using Statistics Canada data.

The UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES) has published two reports on peak oil and energy security – one in 2008 and one this past February.  The reports are excellent, in-depth studies of the issue of peak oil and its myriad impacts on our economy and our society.

The reports can both [...]

It has been a big news week for peak oil, thanks to Richard Branson.  His call to governments to pepare for the coming oil crunch was covered in both the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal.

Please read the articles at the links below

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/07/branson-warns-peak-oil-close

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704140104575057260398292350.html?KEYWORDS=wheatcroft#articleTabs%3Dcomments

One of the first daunting tasks in talking to people about peak oil, is merely convincing them that oil is a finite resource that will run out.  And if that isn’t hard enough, even once the idea is accepted, the task of changing our behaviours to adapt to this reality seems positively Sisyphean.

The link below is [...]