Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… The End of Cheap Oil - The Consequences Dan Box Tully Wakeman Jeremy Smith | 1st October 2005 News Oil Petrol Fuel Cars Energy Future Oil Fuel International Development Carbon …
As US troops pulled out of Iraq last week the bidding for the country's oil fields began. Big Oil makes for epic (tragic) drama says Dan Box
… As the troops withdraw, the oil execs move in... Dan Box | 7th July 2009 Comment Energy Oil Iraq Bp There Will Be Blood Iraq Petrol … Iraq last week the bidding for the country's oil fields began. Big Oil makes for epic …
Filled up your car recently? Bought new bike tyres? Popped any pills? Then you're in part responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill...
… We're all responsible for BP's oil spill disaster Dan Box | 10th May 2010 Comment Energy Oil Politics And Economics Bp … in part responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill... Enter BP’s stately headquarters …
In 1956, at a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in San Antonio, US geophysicist, M King Hubbert predicted that US oil production – which until then had been constantly increasing – would peak in the early 1970s, and then start to fall.
… Peak Dan Box | 27th September 2005 News Peak Oil Hubbert Oil Energy In 1956, at a meeting of the … M King Hubbert predicted that US oil production – which until then had been …
While BP is facing billion-dollar lawsuits in the US, another British company, Cairn Energy, is beginning drilling off the coast of Greenland
… Box | 24th June 2010 Comment Bp Cairn Energy Oil Energy Natural World danboxcomment.jpg … off the coast of Greenland Few outside the oil industry have heard of Cairn Energy, but … made some smart bets in the past, striking oil where other, bigger, outfits swore there …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… September 2003 News Kashgar Xinjiang China Oil Gas Indigenous Rig Carbon Dioxide Oil Indigenous Peoples Energy Society Isolated … in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box. The railway …
The launch of the massive economic ecosystem assessment, TEEB, will help force the natural world onto the corporate balance sheet. It's a step forward. But how will protesters react to the ground shifting under their feet?
… about the damage done to wildlife by the oil giant’s activities were first ignored, … ecologists, conservationists and anti-oil protestors who have for so long been … week. This showed Britain’s production of oil, gas and coal, along with wind, hydro and …
Officials can sternly lecture the City on its excesses as much as they like: when it comes to actually regulating it, politicians just don't care. And don't want us to know...
… 2009 Comment Politics And Economics RBS Oil Gas Finance Money danboxcomment.jpg … RBS has in the past spent billions funding oil and gas exploration. Money has been lent … the norm to conform The violent twilight of oil I own four Sigg bottles. Have I been lied …
Denying the science of climate change is ill-informed, but then so is misreading a report to claim that the entire carbon market is flawed...
… in trouble (again) A legal battle between the oil giant Shell and four Nigerians who claim they lost their livelihoods when oil leaking from pipelines contaminated their … the work of '116 concerned employees of Shell Oil dispersed throughout the USA, UK and the …
Is a business presence at Copenhagen crucial or corrosive? Either way, in a few weeks Denmark is going to be up to its eyes in corporate lobbyists...
… 6 entire Saudi Arabias to start producing new oil by 2030 in order to meet ravenous demand … and claim that the global thirst for oil has been slaked. Demand is going down, … changing it READ MORE... NEWS ANALYSIS Peak oil before 2020 a 'significant risk', say …
Dan launches a highly unscientific experiment to track the financial fortunes of five green companies, and five less-than-green...
… did one man cause the global recession World oil reserves ' exaggerated by one third ', … footprint and turn businesses green? NEWS US oil giant pumps $48m into climate sceptic …
With human beings about to become a predominantly urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable.
… the city consumes 20 million tonnes of oil per year; that’s two super-tankers worth a … Britain is set to become a net importer of oil and gas within three years. Isolated …
21st century nuclear power needs a 21st century subsidy... no blank cheques this time - just an apparently green tweak to the emissions trading system, and voila!
… tweak to the emissions trading system, and voila! What is it they say? Power corrupts? … COMMENT We're all responsible for BP's oil spill disaster Filled up your car … in part responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill... …
Politicians talk a good green economy, but when it comes down to it, they're still only interested in seeing the GDP figures tick upwards...
… deeper trend. The world is changing. No more oil spills: here comes the nuclear powered … economic model The steady loss of forests, soils, wetlands, fisheries, species and coral …
Dan takes a trip down memory lane... and discovers that not only did we call for taxes and sanctions in the last recession, but that just a few years ago airlines were promising us serious cuts...
… has failed . The real Green New Deal . Big Oil goes green. For real? Show me the money , …
What happens when the market research on the good guys starts looking a lot like the profile of the bad guys? You breathe a sigh of relief, argues Dan Box
… guys on the other side of the fence, like the oil execs. The question is, should we care? On …
It's an unlikely alliance, but when one of the world's leading climate scientists and the world's biggest fossil fuel companies declare a common interest, it should draw attention
… | 7th December 2009 Comment Jim Hansen Nasa Oil Shell Exxon Energy Climate Change Finance …
Environmentalists have long been suspicious of the free market, but a new generation of campaigners are using capitalism to change the world.
… saved 687,948 trees and 46 million gallons of oil. It may be very American to say it, but as … journalist who has previously worked as an oil and gas correspondent for the Sunday Times …
Tackling climate change will have lots of knock-on benefits, but one we probably haven't considered is what it will do to car-related injuries. Dan Box meets a man who has...
… same effect. Even without governments, the oil price is going up anyway for the simple …