Timing, they say, is everything. Yesterday I blogged on the US military’s latest warnings on peak oil and how we face a severe energy crunch.
The military planners examined different production methods and flagged up potential problems.
With the Canadian tar sands they warned that “legal constraints may discourage investment.”

Six months ago, the campaign organisation Global Witness exposed discrepancies in the oil figures for Sudan, raising questions as to whether the revenues were being shared fairly between the North and South of the country.
The revenues are important as they under-pin the 2005 peace agreement, which brought to an end one of Africa’s longest-running and [...]

The oil and gas industry likes you to think that, compared to oil, gas is a cleaner, greener alternative – a great bridging fuel between the hydrocarbon age and the renewable age.
Compared to oil, this may be so – if and it is a big if, the gas is normal conventional gas. However, as traditional [...]

The start of an unusual mobilisation of pension fund members has been kicked off by the British organisation FairPensions to hold BP and Shell to account for their investment in the dirty Canadian tar sands.
The idea is simple: individuals can contact their pension funds, through an online action, to show support of environmental resolutions that [...]

Change may only happen in small steps, but slowly and surely the geo-politics of oil are changing.
The dynamics of Middle Eastern oil are in transition. Anyone who argued that the war in the Gulf was a war about oil should sit up and take notice.  And anyone concerned about the climate should also be worried. [...]