George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. November 19, 2009. The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.
Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. November 14, 2009. As U.S. and British oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government, is it time to declare Big Oil the "victor" in the bloody venture?
Terry Macalister, The Guardian. November 12, 2009. Warning of a deliberate underplay at the International Energy Agency of a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
Lee Fang, Think Progress AlterNet: Environment. November 11, 2009. Part of the fury from the right against Graham is being spurred by the oil and coal industry.
Matthew McDermott, TreeHugger. November 11, 2009. Apparently the IEA was concerned that reporting the true reserve numbers would trigger a buying panic.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. November 3, 2009. The future of this ecologically rich area is now in the hands of oil and gas companies that have leased thousands of acres to drill in the Marcellus Shale.
Han Shan, AlterNet. October 30, 2009. It appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 17, 2009. Could you get by without your car, food from outside your community, your job? There's a bunch of folks who want to show you how.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. September 2, 2009. Over the past 28 years, the oil giant has polluted rivers, poisoned the atmosphere and caused immeasurable damage to children.
Han Shan, AlterNet. August 26, 2009. The new film exposes an environmental tragedy experts call the "Amazon Chernobyl," and believe is the worst case of oil-related contamination ever.
Brian Merchant, TreeHugger. August 25, 2009. A report today in Bloomberg that reveals -- gasp -- that the climate bill will do exactly what it's supposed to do.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Environment. July 27, 2009. Inhofe is the same anti-science senator who thinks that global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. July 15, 2009. Will it all end in Iraq not with a bang, but with an oil gusher? The latest oil news out of that country offers a hint of Iraq's fate.
Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor. June 3, 2009. An Ecuadorean court alleges that Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron, knowingly unleashed toxins across an estimated 1,700 square miles.
Will Allen, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 11, 2009. Industrial ag supplies most of our food, yet its lack of regulation may be more of a threat than Wall Street's.
Kerry Trueman, AlterNet. May 7, 2009. Kunstler dishes on the collapse of our institutions, why "recovery" may never come and how to survive the fall of farming as we know it.
AzzamanApril 30, 2009. Though representing a modest fraction of Iraq's oil riches, the Ahdab field was marketed as proof that security conditions have improved.
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. April 16, 2009. And that's just the fraction of reported spills. While big tanker disasters make the headlines, the daily toll of the oil industry is huge.
Shaun Chamberlin, Chelsea Green Publishing. April 6, 2009. We have officially entered the post-oil age in which the transition to lower energy lives is inevitable.
Shannyn Moore, Huffington Post. March 31, 2009. Currently 6 million gallons of crude oil sit at the base of a volcano that has erupted 19 times in the last eight days.
Riki Ott, Chelsea Green Publishing. January 27, 2009. Drilling put in motion by Clinton and Bush have had such devastating effects on Arctic communities it fits the UN definition of cultural genocide.
