For the past two years, ASPO-USA has had its yearly conference in Washington close to the centre of political power. This year as the political pot was stirred after the presidential election they chose to move the conference to Texas.…
On 12 November the IEA’s World Energy Outlook report for 2012 (WEO-2012) was presented by the chief economist of that organization, Dr. Fatih Birol. When he did, so there was one idea that the journalists in the audience latched on…
Last night I got a call from Peter Coy, Economics Editor for Bloomberg Business Week in New York and he wanted to ask some questions about the claim that the United States in the future would export oil. Our discussion…
Today the IEA’s World Energy Outlook for 2012 was released. I will comment on the report when I have had an opportunity to read it. At the moment numerous newspaper articles have misunderstood the contents of WEO2012. For example, an…
Seminar at the think tank Global Challenge in Stockholm Sweden Global Challenge: Recently, new data on available oil reserves, new deep-water deposits, oil sands and especially “shale gas” has given rise to concerns about what these resources mean from a…
“The Inter-Parliamentary Union” (IPU) had its seat in Geneva and was formed as early as 1889 on the initiative of the then freedom activists William Cremer of the United Kingdom and Frédéric Passy of Frankrike. They were both members of…
The 10th Annual ASPO International Conference in Vienna was a great success. On the conference website, you can read about the conference (ASPO 2012), you can look in detail at the program (program) and read the presentations of the speakers…
Presentation of the book Peeking at Peak Oil ASPO was formed ten years ago in 2002 during the world’s first Peak Oil conference in Uppsala. During the autumn of the year 2000, a number of people had encouraged Colin Campbell…
The secretary of ASPO International Mikael Höök has now made his thesis public by using a nail and hammer, and this ”nailing” is an old tradition at Uppsala University, Sweden. The thesis “Coal and Oil: The Dark Monarchs of Global…
Behind government dismissals of ‘alarmist’ fears, there is growing concern over critical future energy supplies. Speculation that government ministers are far more concerned about a future supply crunch than they have admitted has been fuelled by the revelation that they…