In 2011, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the US Department of Energy commissioned INTEK Inc., a Virginia-based consulting firm, to estimate how much oil might be recoverable from California’s vast Monterey Shale formation. Production of tight oil was...
http://www.ecoshock.info/2014/05/what-to-do-while-waiting-for-crash.html”>Radio Ecoshock There’s a movie "What to Do in Denver When You are Dead". Now we know this carbon-based civilization is dead-ending in bankruptcy and climate chaos. What are we supposed to do while we wait for collapse? It’s...
For our interviews today, we look at peak oil theory with Richard Heinberg and James Hamilton. Heinberg argues that we have reached peak oil supply and that will have major economic consequences for our future prospects of economic growth....
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed about peak oil in RT’s Boom and Bust show. Watch at RT
Credit: Sea Change Radio | Download There’s a scientific debate afoot in geological and environmental circles about what to call the current time period. According to the International Union of Geological Sciences, we’re living in the Holocene epoch, but many believe that...
Post Carbon Fellow Richard Heinberg’s book Snake Oil was reviewed at Dissident Voice. From the review: Snake Oil also debunks the flimsy economic hype used to promote other methods of unconventional oil and gas production (e.g. oil fracking, deep sea...
Congress is holding hearings this week on the possible lifting of a US oil export ban instituted in the 1970s to promote national energy self-sufficiency and has invited a number of “experts” with dubious ties to the oil...
Paul Mobbs reviews Richard Heinberg’s latest book. For those who thought the ‘fracking’ issue was just about water pollution and earthquakes, Richard Heinberg’s Snake Oil might be a little perplexing. You don’t get to the parts about environmental pollution until about...
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This is a transcript of a conversation between Post Carbon Fellows Chris Martenson and Richard Heinberg, recorded for the Peak Prosperity podcast. Listen to the interview here. TRANSCRIPT Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity podcast. I am your host,...
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Credit: Peak Prosperity | Download With all the grandiosity of the media headlines touting our destiny as the new “Saudi America”, many pundits have been quick to pronounce Peak Oil dead. Here at PeakProsperity.com, one of the most frequent questions we’ve received...