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Newsletter for April 2009
01 Apr 2009
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Ryan welcomes ESB greening
26 Apr 2008
Energy Minister Eamon Ryan has welcomed the approval by the Board of ESB of a Strategic Framework to 2020 which should see the electricity supplier halve its carbon dioside emissio
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Crude forecast to reach $225 US
25 Apr 2008
Jeff Rubin, the ever-bullish oil forecaster and chief economist at CIBC World Markets, can't keep pace with crude's meteoric rise.Four months after predicting world oil pri
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Action needed on fuel security, critical infrastructure and competition
17 Apr 2008
EirGrid News ReleaseAction needed on fuel security, critical infrastructure and competition - EirGrid Chief Executive tells conferenceThursday 17 April, 2008 - Decisive action
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Defining Peak Oil
01 Apr 2008
The term Peak Oil has virtually entered the dictionary but it lacks a succinct definition. It is sometimes dismissively referred to as a Theory, when in reality it is based on the
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Doomsday Prognosis
01 Apr 2008
The European Commission has released remarkably forthright new guidelines for NATO. This organisation was originally formed as a defensive pact such that the signatory countries un
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Russian Gas Exports
01 Apr 2008
The consultancy CERA is known for its cornucopian view of future oil and gas supply, but now Mr Thane Gustafson, a Senior Director, expresses doubts that Gazprom can maintain gas s
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Oil price in different currencies
01 Apr 2008
The present surge in oil price started in 1999 when it stood at $17.97 which at the then exchange rate was equivalent to 17.4 euros. Taking the present price at say $100, it means
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Financial Cycles
01 Apr 2008
A Russian Economist in the early part of the last Century identified financial cycles in the following terms, but now as we enter the Second Half of the Age of Oil we face an addit
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ASPO hits the Senate
01 Apr 2008
Senator Roscoe Bartlett addressed the Senate on March 14th on the subject of Peak Oil and its impact on the United States. He pointed out that peak world discovery was in th
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The Motor Industry admits to Peak Oil
01 Apr 2008
The Observer Newspaper of 23 March covered an interview with Mr Johan Willems, a Director of General Motors responsible for Advanced Propulsion and Environmental Communication, who
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Major Oil Companies hint too
01 Apr 2008
Chevron has published a most remarkable advertisement as follows, and deserves huge credit for doing so: Chevron - Human Energy With our planet’s population continui
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Game, Set and Match
01 Apr 2008
The International Energy Agency was fully aware of Peak Oil some ten years ago. Their World Energy Outlook of 1998 showed that demand would outpace supply by 2010 save for the entr
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One Presidential Candidate’s Proposal
01 Apr 2008
One of the Candidates for the US Presidency has published what sounds like a solid assessment, referring to the impact of high oil price and the cost of foreign military operations
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New Books
01 Apr 2008
A splendid new book by Rob Hopkins entitled The Transition Handbook : From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience has been published by Green Book (ISBN 978-1-900322-18-8). It is
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Newsletter for April 2008
01 Apr 2008
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Newsletter for April 2007
01 Apr 2007
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