ENERGY BULLETIN

-Dump the pump: could peak oil be voluntary?
-Shell's Majnoon deal highlights Iraq oil target verdict
-Insight - Peak, pause or plummet? Shale oil costs at crossroads

-The Barcode moment, Part 1
-Learning To Love A Wounded World
-It's all right

No civilization has ever faced the agricultural challenges confronting us over the coming decades. Ever. And if we can pull it off – wherever we CAN pull it off – it will necessarily be with an agriculture of maximum resilience; an agriculture that can get knocked down and stagger back up again and again and again. So let’s do this.

- Can we please just declare the end of 'peak oil' and start worrying about something important?
- The U.S. Has A Lot Of Shale Oil, So What?
- Chevron VP: Technology can unlock new fields, curb fears of peak oil
- The Biggest Threat to High Oil Prices
- Amory Lovins: A 50-year plan for energy (video)
- U.S. energy independence is no longer just a pipe dream

-Fruit and vegetable community co-ops rise to 350 in Wales
-Quantifying Urban Agriculture Impacts, One Tomato at a Time
-The Edible City

"It's no pipe dream. The U.S. is already the world's fastest-growing oil and natural gas producer. Counting the output from Canada and Mexico, North America is "the new Middle East," Citigroup analysts declare in a recent report."

Jeffrey Brown responds: The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) sums the reported production from Texas producers, and it has been doing so far decades, while the EIA apparently uses a sampling approach to estimate Texas production. For annual production in 2011, the RRC shows Texas crude oil production at 1.12 mbpd (million barrels per day), while the EIA shows it at 1.46 mbpd, a gap of 340,000 bpd. The gap between the RRC and the EIA for monthly production is even more pronounced, on the order of about 500,000 to 600,000 bpd.

If the EIA is this far off for Texas, what about the other producing states, and what does it say about the EIA's global data?

-Familiar echoes in shale gas boom
-'Fracking' risks found to have been diminished (Report)
-Medical Records Could Yield Answers On Fracking
-Water safe in town made famous by fracking-EPA
-Shale causes rise in waste gas pollution
-Obama Warms to Energy Industry by Supporting Natural Gas

- WWF Report: Consumption of Earth's resources unsustainable
- Monthly Review: Marx’s ecology and the understanding of land cover change
- New report from Club of Rome warns about humanity’s ability to survive without a major change in direction
- The Big Fix: documentary exposes BP, U.S. Gov't on Gulf disaster/Interview: the Tickells, filmmakers
- James Hansen: Game Over for the Climate

- Transition Town erobert Regensburg: „Die Stadt im Wandel“
- Die glücklichsten Menschen leben in Nordeuropa
- Überflutungen, extremes Wetter, verheerende Dürren (Club of Rome)

- Peak oil debate is over, says Total chief
- Oil Falls to 2012 Low on Greek Debt, Saudi Call for Drop
- Reuters global energy and envrionment summit