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Gulf of Mexico: “There is no life out there”

By Staff Reports | October 28, 2013

NWS employee on Gulf beach

The Gulf Oil spill is old news, right? 2010? Over and done with. The seafood industry has recovered. tourists are back, BP has kept its promises to make things right. We know that because that’s what the incessant BP commercials on television are telling us. BP seems to believe its own commercials, because it announced in June that it and the Coast Guard were ending regular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill

Deepwater what?

By Erik Curren | April 20, 2012

peak oil chart

How soon we forget. Today marks the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But don't expect to hear much about it. The largest environmental disaster ever in American history, the BP oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and its consequences continue to reverberate in the area. But unless you're a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Big Oil, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill

Thank you for oil

By Lindsay Curren | November 23, 2010

Prayer at Thanksgiving

As families gather around Thanksgiving tables to voice the things they're thankful for—usually family, friends, "this time together"—I'll be offering my thanks for oil. Not for the olive oil that might be used to sauté some of our veggies, though I'm thankful for that too. No, I'm talking about petroleum. When we think about oil we mostly see it as gasoline, or lubricant for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: conservation, cooking, food, Nov 2010, offshore drilling, oil spill, peak oil, tar sands, Thanksgiving, unconventional oil

Plenty of oil if price is no object

By Lindsay Curren | November 17, 2010

The get rich days of light swet crude are over. But if we're not careful, we're all going back to a hard scrabble life, and not in Beverly Hills. Image: Gary W. Tooze

Last week we reported how the International Energy Agency's 2010 World Energy Outlook said that world oil production peaked in 2006. Yesterday, guest columnist Tom Whipple, editor of ASPO-USA's Peak Oil Review, drilled down a little further into that report to show that if you really parse its contents, you see that while the IEA says the world peaked in 2006, they're also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: ASPO, clean energy, clean energy hawks, conservation, energy policy, national security, oil spill, peak oil, relocalization

Interview: Matt Simmons

By Lindsay Curren | October 1, 2010

Matt Simmons, July 2010. Photo: Courtesey of the Ocean Energy Institute.

When we hatched the idea this summer of starting Transition Voice as the first online magazine devoted to regular coverage of peak oil, we knew immediately that Matt Simmons was the first expert we wanted to interview. Those familiar with the subject will know why. That's why we were so glad when Simmons took a chance on our fledgling effort, and agreed to talk to us for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: clean energy, clean energy hawks, construction, interview, Oct 2010, oil spill, peak oil, Stars of Peak Oil

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