ACT Peak Oil

Australia faces food crisis as rivers reach new low
A gas supply disruption case study - the Varanus Island explosion
Australia considers first new coal port in 25 years

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Peak oil: petrol to reach $8 a litre
Fuel for thought - CSIRO's report on the future of transport fuels
ASPO-Australia's response to CSIRO report
Petrol report a wake-up call: environmentalists

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Ian Dunlop of ASPO-Australia on "Insight"
ASPO's Bell says world must adjust to higher oil prices - video
A critical review of IEA's oil demand forecast for China

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Australian climate report like 'disaster novel'

Only seven years left for global warming target: UN panel chief
Profile of Canadian water campaigner Maude Barlow

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China Watch: Plastic bag ban trumps market and consumer efforts
Australia: Gimme shelter from affluenza
Sex and the City and handbag insanity

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EB founder quoted in Australian House debate
Police warned Varanus plant: report (NG pipeline explosion)
The energy crisis needs a clear head
Astonishing farewell speech by NZ MP Nándor Tánczos
The legacy of Nandor

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Bruce Robinson (ASPO-Australia) on ABC urges governments to prepare for PO
City planner Richard Balfour (founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive)
Jeffrey J. Brown, oil exploration geoscientist
Anadarko Petroleum CEO James Hackett

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If you are listening to me now then you were born in The Age of Oil. A wondrous time when abundant energy has enabled humanity to work technological miracles. With enough energy we can solve any problem. ... We are entering a new age, the Post-Peak Oil Age. Now the 100 year folly of modern economics comes to an end. No more fantasies that resources are infinite. No more delusions that growth goes on forever. Just us, all six billion of us, on our precious, fragile little planet. Now comes the hard part.

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You probably heard of peak oil - the idea that global petroleum supplies are about to, or have, passed their peak. But have you ever heard of peak phosphorus? Probably not, but it's something you'll hear alot more about in years to come because when the earth's phosphorus supplies run out, so too will food. It sounds like a doomsday scenario, but my guest today believes deposits of phosphorus could be depleted this century.

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Hawaii seems like an ideal place to relocate after peak oil - no need to worry about heating a house; clothing is mostly for protection from the sun; and crops can be grown year around. On the other hand...

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Barrons: Price of oil may be peaking
NYT: Why is oil so high? Pick a view
OPEC and the soaring cost of oil
Chevron exec: What’s behind the energy crisis
Tiger in our tanks: Australia and oil price

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Staff, Energy Bulletin. Julian Darley: Are we at PO tipping point?
IEA's Fatih Birol offers the world an oil health check - prognosis isn't good
Peak oil and Hubbert on Charlie Rose show
Peak and prices as drivers of change
S. Africa: PO paranoia on path to presidency
Nelder: The impending oil export crisis
Geologist vs investor: Why is oil so high?

Staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre. A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Gazprom's bravado about $250 oil conceals output jitters
BP's review of global reserves tainted by 'political' oil
OPEC wants oil price `solution' from Saudi meeting
Libya says oil supply problem lies ahead
Murti of Goldman: oil prices may dip to $75
Australian natural gas - how much do we have and how long will it last ?

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Factories close, supermarkets empty and jets run out of fuel as truckers' strike bites (Spain, Portugal)
Oil price crisis threatens to reverse globalisation
Today's high oil prices could be here to stay

Staff, Energy Bulletin. U.S., UK agencies seek oil trading limits
Congress wary of oil-market speculation
Oil executives: "What do they know?"

John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report. As soaring oil prices and economic turmoil seize the headlines and announce the arrival of peak oil as a social fact, it may be worth looking ahead at the implications of the end of the industrial age. Is modern science here to stay, or is it time to start taking steps to ensure its survival through a new Dark Age?

Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press. A good place to start looking at the current situation is with the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) and Energy Information Administration (EIA) monthly reports which were released earlier this week.

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Independent: Is this the end of oil?
Hamish McRae: Old King Coal alive and kicking
What they said at Globel Energy Conference
Book Review: Profit from the Peak
New Statesman: After the oil crunch?

Staff, Energy Bulletin. Riot police break up Spanish truckers' fuel protests as protests spread around world
Spain's car plants shut as fuel protests mount
Fuel protests in Asia and Europe, two dead
Fuel shortage in Buenos Aires
Nepal raises gasoline price by 25%