Middle East
Electricity & water - Aug 25
TVA electric rate increase largest in 34 years
Energy-rich Gulf faces power shortage of unprecedented proportions
Demand for water and electricity to grow remarkably in Abu Dhabi
The Economist: Running dry
Food & agriculture - Aug 22
A modest proposal for sustainable eating (Slow Food)
Saudi Arabia: Feeding its own people more cheaply
Food price rises push 14m to the brink of starvation
Charles's fantasy farming won't feed Africa's poor
6 ways mushrooms can save the world
Costs spiral for cigar-leaf farms
Peak oil, prices, supplies - Aug 21
Jad Mouawad: As oil giants lose influence, supply drops
A few speculators dominate vast market for oil trading
The future is now; the end of cheap oil
Russia sees oil output stalling
Raymond James: State of Russian oil ‘much worse than we would have imagined 6 months ago’
OPEC, peak oil and the end of cheap gas
Amid all the discussion about peak oil, one voice has been conspicuously absent, that of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). OPEC's position on the petroleum-resource question should be the decisive factor in this ongoing and seemingly inconclusive debate. The organization now supplies about 42 percent of the world's petroleum ...
Fossil fuels - August 19
Oman turns to coal for power
Carbon sequestration frustration
Oil shale stuck between rock and wild place
Prices and supplies - Aug 13
Yet another forecast for Saudi oil production
Does another run higher for crude await?
Rush to Arctic as warming opens oil deposits
Raymond J. Learsy and abiotic oil
Peak oil - Aug 10
David Strahan: Have we reached the end of the road for oil?
Rising need of crude in energy rich nations
Heinberg on Al Jazeera TV
CIBC's Ben Tal sees $200 oil
Energy: It's still cheap (Matt Simmons. interview)
Prices & supplies - July 25
Huge oil trading loss sinks energy trader SemGroup
Polar power: vast oil find in Arctic
The coming gas supply shock in the Gulf
Supplies - July 22
Pemex may drill outside Mexico for first time if reforms fail
Record Iranian output belies oil sector travails
Russia's Gazprom agrees to develop Iranian oil, gas fields
You say crisis. I say opportunity (Jim Gray of Canadian Hunter Exploration)
Peak oil is a done deal
I now believe that the hypothesis of a near or medium-term peak in the world's oil supply is confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt. A shift in emphasis that speaks to reducing our demand for oil and examining alternatives to oil is now required. I will be taking that road in the future, leaving specific concerns about the oil supply behind.

