The war against ISIS: Changing the oil landscape in the Middle East

by | Jun 11, 2015 | Gas

The spotlight on recent events in the Middle East, while understandably focused on ISIS and the coalition battling it, has overshadowed the potential emergence of a Kurdish state, which would dramatically change the energy landscape in Iraq, Turkey, and, by extension,...

Is it possible to perpetually extend the fossil fuel frontier?

by | Jun 11, 2015 | Gas

In their book “Ecological Economics” Daly and Farley wrote: “We almost certainly will never exhaust fossil fuel stocks in physical terms, because there will always remain some stocks that are too energy-intensive or too expensive to recover.” Technological advances...