Arctic oil

- Keystone XL Isn't Dead Yet
- Gas exports soar, keeping U.S. price at pump high
- Cairn’s $600 Million Greenland Oil Campaign Ends in Failure
- A Shadow Climate Regime

Big Oil's campaign for energy complacency is picking up steam. They say tar sands and fracking are bringing a new era of plenty. But whatever happened to peak oil?

- Investment firm to encourage Arctic drilling
- Climate change: there is no plan B
- Battle to Save an Unsung Fish Critically Important to Ocean's Ecosystem (menhaden)
- Obama Re-election Strategy Is Tied to a Retreat on Smog
- BBC drops Frozen Planet's climate change episode to sell show better abroad

- New York Times: The Arctic and the Lessons of the Gulf
- Sen. Murkowski: U.S. Must be a Leader in Offshore Oil Production
- Putin’s Russia will lead a ‘new era of Arctic industrialisation’

- WikiLeaks: A battle to 'carve up' the Arctic
- China Admits Problems With Three Gorges Dam
- Ugo Bardi: The return of cold fusion?
- Jeremy Leggett interview (now an editor)
- Jan Lundberg interviewed in Shanghai Oriental Morning Post

-Japan to Cancel Plan to Build More Nuclear Plants
-Nuclear commission pinpoints 2021 for German atomic shutdown
-Shrinking Oil Supplies Put Alaskan Pipeline at Risk
-Methane contamination of water rises near to shale gas sites, study shows
-France set to heed shale oil protests

If you write about, speak about, or talk with your family, friends and co-workers about peak oil, you've almost certainly been asked: "Well, who else is saying what you're saying?"

Economist Paul Krugman almost addressed the Limits to Growth in his recent article "The Finite World", but pulled back before reaching the brink of suggesting there may be physical limits to economic growth. A Nobel Prize may await whomever finds a workable model to prosper human welfare under conditions of depleting resources. Will economists solve this problem, or ordinary people who are learning to live better in The Finite World?

The Obama administration announced this week that it has reversed its decision to open up new leases in areas of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast. The intention to lift the moratorium which had been in place since 2006 was made weeks before the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. See the recent UKITPOES paper for more on the likely impact of the Gulf of Mexico disaster on oil production...

-BP loses Arctic drilling race due to Gulf oil disaster
-Greenland happy to be the new oil frontier
-Danes block Greenpeace vessel in Arctic

-Tony Hayward's departure follows that of his mentor
-Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well
-Proceed with caution on shale gas
-Siemens warns growth could fall 7.5pc if energy prices rise
-Is Matt Simmons Credible?

-Why America should thank BP
-Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it
-BP oil spill: Shares fall further
-BP's OTHER Spill this Week
-The real cost of cheap oil
-What Will it Take to End Our Oil Addiction?

-President Obama: Fed Gov't in Charge of Efforts to Contain Oil Spill, Not BP
-BP and the Annals of the Tin Ear
-'Top kill' method 'slows BP oil leak' in Gulf of Mexico
-Setback Delays ‘Top Kill’ Effort to Seal Leaking Oil Well in Gulf