BC Natural Gas Reserves Inflated, Revenues Overstated, Report Finds
Analyst David Hughes offers another challenge to the province’s nascent industry. By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee. A new report on liquefied natural gas prospects for British Columbia challenges government claims that gas exports will lower greenhouse gas emissions, or...
Review: Afterburn by Richard Heinberg
Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels By Richard Heinberg 205 pp. New Society Publishers – Apr. 2015. $18.95. Review by Frank Kaminski, originally published at Mud City Press Richard Heinberg’s studies into energy resources began with one of the grand,...
The IMF Tells a Half-Truth
On May 18 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report titled “How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?” The question is a bit misleading: most readers, when they see the word subsidy, probably tend to think of tax breaks...
Can an Olympics Fight Inequality?
As someone concerned about inequality, what would it take for you to support the Olympics in Boston in 2024?” That is the question that journalist Neil Swidey asked me for his article that appears today in the...
AFTERBURN: Living in a Post Carbon World
Download Our guest was Richard Heinberg, author of Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels (New Society, 2015). The book is a collection of his essays and addresses, and we spoke with him about a range of topics, including fracking and peak...
AFTERBURN interview
Download An extended interview with Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg about his new book AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. View the related Afterburn video series Interview by Greg Moffitt, Legalise Freedom Use Discount Code PCI2015 for 20%...
Chinese energy figures suggest much slower growth than advertised
Article by Kurt Cobb, originally published at Resource Insights Last year China reported the slowest economic growth in 24 years, about 7.4 percent. But the true figure may actually be much lower, and the evidence is buried in electricity figures which show...
Afterburn video 4: A Resilient Society
The final video in a four-part video series. Released in conjunction with Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. Resilience is a word that’s gaining a lot of currency in recent years, as more and more people realize there are...
Marcellus Production Outlook
Has Well Productivity Peaked in the Nation’s Largest Shale Gas Play? The Marcellus shale gas play of Pennsylvania and West Virginia came onto the scene in 2007 in a big way and has grown to become the nation’s...
A Community Resilience Take on The Great Transition
A review of Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition by Johan Rockström. “Planetary boundaries” research constitutes an important advance in our ability to identify and quantify the components of global overshoot. Permit me to suggest that all...