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Monthly archive for January 2006
Showing results 6 - 10 of 36 for the month of January, 2006.
26 Jan 2006
Greenpeace have produced a startling video as part of their campaign to dissuade Tony Blair from approving a new generation of nuclear power stations. It is one to show any friends or relatives you might have who still think the nuclear option is the correct one. According to David Adams in the Guardian, the scenario in the film has been challenged by Regis Matzie, senior vice-president and chief technology officer of Westinghouse, which designs new nuclear stations, who states that reactors are difficult targets because they sit low on the horizon and their round shape makes a direct hit awkward. I sleep a lot better knowing that.
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26 Jan 2006
One thing that really struck me when I attended a lecture Bernard Lietaer gave the other week, was when he talked about the need for us to set up what he called **’Think and Do Tanks’**. He talked about the neo-cons in the US, we may not like them very much but they have been highly successful at making their vision for the world a reality. They didn’t just have an idea. They also worked out the fine details of how to implement it, prepared budgets and also drafted the legislation that would be required. They lobbied Congress very skillfully and now here we are as their vision starts to become reality around the world. If you aren’t sure what their vision is, then I suggest you read
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25 Jan 2006
**Lester Brown** is one of the most influential environmental analysts around, and founded the Earth Policy Institute. He has written many books, generally packed with information and detail, and rarely containing much information that would send you skipping and dancing in the street. His latest book, Plan B – rescuing a planet under stress and a civilisation in trouble, was his attempt at an emergency plan for saving the world. While it is insightful and excellent, I found it rather frustrating in that what I would regard as the single biggest challenge, i.e. peak oil, wasn’t mentioned once. It is interesting to observe that Brown has now carried out a major rewrite of Plan B, and a new edition has just be published called Plan B 2.0, which has now taken peak oil
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25 Jan 2006
Last week Petroleum Intelligence Weekly reported a leak from within the **Kuwait Oil Company** which revealed that Kuwaiti oil reserves are actually around half what they have been reporting for the last 20 years, down from 99bn barrels to 48 bn barrels. While this should have been the biggest news story of 2006, and splashed across headlines around the world, it was reported by Reuters, but other than that barely made any of the papers I searched through for it. In a nutshell, overnight the world lost 5% of its total oil reserves, and that could just be the tip of the iceberg.
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24 Jan 2006
*Here is an article I just came across which struck me as really important, and which you should read in order to make sense of events happening around Iraq at the moment. I don’t make a habit of posting articles from elsewhere, but this is an important piece. International events make much more sense when we understand what is going on behind the scenes.*
**Iran’s Oil Exchange threatens the Greenback** – by Mike Whitney of OpEdNews.com.
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Greenpeace have produced a startling video as part of their campaign to dissuade Tony Blair from approving a new generation of nuclear power stations. It is one to show any friends or relatives you might have who still think the nuclear option is the correct one. According to David Adams in the Guardian, the scenario in the film has been challenged by Regis Matzie, senior vice-president and chief technology officer of Westinghouse, which designs new nuclear stations, who states that reactors are difficult targets because they sit low on the horizon and their round shape makes a direct hit awkward. I sleep a lot better knowing that. 
