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Peak Coal

Chossudovsky: The objective is to gain strategic control of oil and gas reserves and exclude competing powers in the region

by Publisher2 February 21, 2010 Africa

Related: World Oil Production Peaked in 2008

A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly [...]

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Endgame: Peak Oil

by Publisher2 February 5, 2010 Analysis

by John Michael Greer
(The Intelligence Daily) — I’ve mentioned more than once in these essays the foreshortening effect that textbook history can have on our understanding of the historical events going on around us.  The stark chronologies most of us get fed in school can make it hard to remember that even the most drastic [...]

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Richard Heinberg: Peak Coal and Blackout (book review)

by publisher January 27, 2010 Energy

by Damien Perrotin (translated from French by Laura Bennett)
Richard Heinberg is an important figure in the world of those interested in the energy crisis and its consequences, and one of the rare few, along with James Kunstler, to have had their work at least partially translated into French. A member of the Post Carbon Institute, [...]

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Jevons’Law: Enforcing the Age of Energy Decline – Part 1.

by publisher January 11, 2010 Energy

(The Oil Drum) — This is a guest post by Lionel Orford. Lionel is a professional electrical engineer with an interest in peak oil and sustainability. This past year he has been researching and developing a book with the working title, “Peak Capitalism: Our Opportunity to Choose between Transformation and Collapse.” His web site can [...]

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