There was much to welcome in the new coalition's energy policy.

We are appoaching all the wrong limits at blowout speed. The choices are do nothing (crash) or "degrowth" (planned radical contraction). Speeches from 1st North American Degrowth Conference.

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When BP's Deep Water Horizon well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, it was difficult to imagine the scope of its impact on the delicate coastlines of Louisiana and adjacent states. Today, the former platform site continues to spill about 5,000 barrels a day – or 210,000 gallons – into the Gulf, with no containment strategy yet in sight.

-Peak Relationships: the end of suburbia up close and personal
-I share their despair, but I'm not quite ready to climb the Dark Mountain
-The End of Thatcherism

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A senior House Democrat said that the blowout preventer that failed to stop an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico had a dead battery in its control pod, leaks in its hydraulic system, a "useless" test version of one of the devices that was supposed to close the flow of oil and a cutting tool that wasn't strong enough to shear through joints that made up 10 percent of the drill pipe.

-Relief wells
-Flow diversion: “top hat” and pipe insertion
-Top kill/junk shot
-New BOP
-Congressional hearing reveals “significant problems”
-Cementing

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Resource collapse is bigger than peak oil, and bigger even than the projected depletion of natural gas, coal and uranium – it encompasses each and every natural resource extracted, exploited

Chances are that unless you’re a total financial wonk, you’ve never heard the term “seigniorage.” But you should, because doing the right thing with it could help solve several major, interrelated problems.

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-DOE Still Disavows Peak Oil Forecast, Despite New Studies
-Oil industry spent big on Senate panel members
-US oil industry watchdog to be broken up

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WASHINGTON - In the midst of what appears to be the worst offshore oil disaster in American history, U.S.

Oil spill update for May 11

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More than 90 per cent of the world’s energy comes from non-renewable sources – and its decline can be projected on a Hubbert bell chart. It’s just that we are more familiar with the concept of peak oil. After all, oil is the world’s largest source of energy, and the size and immediacy of the problem tends to overshadow debate on the remaining energy sources.

-Crews dealt setback in placing containment dome in Gulf oil spill
-Oil production hit for decades after BP spill
-How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
-Tread carefully, Mr Obama. You need big oil

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The oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has shattered the notion that offshore drilling had become safe. A close look at the accident shows that lax federal oversight, complacency by BP and the other companies involved, and the complexities of drilling a mile deep all combined to create the perfect environmental storm.

3 years, 8 months and a day ago, 400 of us gathered here in this hall to 'Unleash' what we had just decided to call 'Transition Town Totnes'.