Natural gas

-What’s Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda?
-Soaring cost of healthcare sets a record
-America Is Not Yet Lost
-Seven States of Energy Debt

One way of looking at our current set of predicaments is that we've been on a binge, consuming energy considerably faster than it can be captured and stored by Earth's ecosystems. While fossil fuels once appeared limitless (and still do to deniers of peak oil), and though we're literally bathed in energy (in the form of sunlight), the disappearance of the fossil-fuel storehouse accumulated over millions of years isn't something that can be replaced with anything nearly as convenient as fossil fuels.

In a busy week for energy policy, UK energy watchdog Ofgem finally acknowledged what has been obvious for years: that liberalized markets cannot deliver energy security in the era of carbon reduction and resource depletion.

-Citizen Renaissance
-TN green crusader puts ecovillage message to work worldwide
-The Case for 'Gray Power'

-How long before the lights go out?
-Peak Oil Theory: implications for Australia’s strategic outlook and the ADF
-The Iraqi Oil Conundrum
-A New Clean Economy — With Old Sources of Energy
-Business as Usual: Hooked on Foreign Oil
-Stop the Green Tech Coup, Military Industry on the Offensive

-Energy bills will be unaffordable without system overhaul, says regulator
-Is the world awash in oil?
-Demand for oil will peak by 2030 – BP chief

-White House Budget Proposal Gives Ax to Fossil Fuel Tax Breaks, Some Interior Programs
-US Navy to halve fossil fuels by 2020
-Oil, trucking interests sue over 2011 fuel law

-Haiti's Energy Problems
-Living on the edge of disaster
-The west owes Haiti a bailout. And it would be a hand-back, not a handout

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and Production
-Is the US Economy Recovering?
-Venezuela’s Auction
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs

This week saw the Chairman of one of the world’s major oil companies publicly acknowledge the approaching peak in oil production...

The plans to build the politically and environmentally controversial Nord Stream pipeline have been in the air since 1997. With Finland and Sweden finally saying “yes” to the pipeline in their waters, the wheels of construction are now in full speed with the first line to be opened in the 2011. This will bring relief to Europe that is struggling with energy supply--yet not everyone is a winner.

Natural gas prices continue their recovery. Cold weather has caused high levels of space heating that have resulted in reduced gas storage inventories. Henry Hub spot prices have recovered from their September $2.18 low to an average price of $5.56/MMbtu in the week ending January 22, 2010 (Figure 1). The average daily spot price for 2009 was $3.95/MMbtu...

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and Production
-Venezuela
-China continues to grow
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

I don't expect any government agency to issue a regulation requiring a warning label on oil and natural gas discoveries. But the next best thing would be for journalists reporting such finds to put them into perspective using a days of world consumption figure, or if the find is natural gas that will only be marketed domestically, days of domestic consumption.