BP’s Dumb Investors
The companies now threatening to sue BP have only themselves to blame.
Archive for the 'oil' Category
The Money Gusher
The oil industry’s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.
If Nothing Else, Save Farming
It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.
Cross Your Fingers and Carry On
Why does the government refuse to make contingency plans for peak oil?
Jeroen van der Veer Challenged
I grill the chief executive of Shell in the fourth of my aggressive interviews with policy makers.
Shell’s Game
Why good people do bad things
Fatih Birol Challenged
This is the second of my bare-knuckle interviews with policy makers.
At Last, A Date
For the first time, the International Energy Agency has produced a date for peak oil. And it’s not reassuring.
Majesty, We Have Gone Mad
An open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
The Last Straw
A new generation of biofuels turns out to be another environmental disaster
Leave It In The Ground
The climate talks are a stitch-up, as no one is talking about supply.
What if the Oil Runs Out?
Though the government is planning a massive expansion of transport networks, it has never considered this question.
A Lethal Solution
We need a five-year freeze on biofuels, before they wreck the planet. Read more »
Still Drilling
The rebranding of Shell and BP is a fraud.
A Well of Hypocrisy
One man uses gas and oil money to help the poor. The other uses it to buy guns. Guess who gets vilified.
Worse Than Fossil Fuel
Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
Crying Sheep
We had better start preparing for a decline in global oil supply
In Bed With the Killers
BP is working with a genocidal government
Living with the Age of Entropy
Is a life without fossil fuel possible?
Losing the Battle with Entropy
Without cheap oil, the only safe option is to start dismantling our complex economies
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The Bottom of the Barrel
Oil is running out, but no one wants to talk about it.
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In the Crocodile’s Mouth
Blair is appeasing Bush partly in order to get a share of the world’s diminishing supplies of oil
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Trouble in the Pipeline
The corporations have asked us to trust them. But even the paragon of “corporate social responsibility” is saying one thing and doing quite another.
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America’s Pipe Dream
The war against terrorism is also a struggle for oil and regional control
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Yes, It Was About Oil
New findings reveal that NATO’s intervention in Kosovo paved the way for a Trans-Balkan Pipeline
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We’re Vulnerable Because We’re Unsustainable
If Britain is serious about defence, it should invest in renewable energy
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