The energy of nations: Risk blindness and the road to renaissance

The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-252

  Leggett, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315887418     Document Type: Book

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43. An account of this event can be read in ‘Future of energy debate — Groningen’, Digital Energy Journal, 1 September 2009. http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/n/Future_of_energy_debate_Groningen/6351fc55.aspx
44. ‘Financial Services Authority chairman backs tax on “socially useless” banks’, Guardian, 27 August 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/aug/27/fsa-bonus-city-banks-tax
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54. Jeremy Leggett address at the press conference launching the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security 2010 report, Royal Society, London, 8 February 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaxJum8FD5g
55. Chris Barton address at the press conference launching the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security 2010 report, Royal Society, London,8February 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyj_FZOtNTg
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59. ‘Fears raised over process of extraction’, Financial Times, 7 March 2010. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ccd8412a-2a11-11df-b940-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2L9Oc8V6l
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72. ‘Coal India IPO shows the mountain we have to climb’, Jeremy Leggett, Guardian, 9 November 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/coal-india-ipo-climate-change
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76. ‘Germany debates how to dump nuclear power’, Reuters, 15 April 2011. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/15/us-germany-nuclear-idUSTRE73E2I920110415
77. ‘WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices’, Guardian, 8 February 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/saudi-oil-reserves-overstated-wikileaks
78. ‘U.S. must help Saudi Arabia turn into “the Saudi Arabia of Solar”, WikiLeaks cables say’, Jeremy Leggett, Huffington Post, 14 February 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-leggett/us-must-help-saudi-arabia_b_822787.html
79. ‘Oil crunch: are we there yet?’, ABC TV, Catalyst, 28 April 2011. The programme can be viewed online at: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3201781.htm
80. Ian Cheshire, ‘Imagining a new, sustainable capitalism’, Guardian, 24 March http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-usiness/blog/kingfisher-ceo-ian-cheshire-sustainable-capitalism
81. Matt Taibii, ‘The people vs. Goldman Sachs’, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2011. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs-goldman-sachs-20110511
82. ‘Eon takes up Merkel move to go green’, Financial Times, 26 June 2011. http://www.ft.cOm/cms/s/0/473c525c-a0l4-11e0-a115-00l44feabdc0.html#axzz1QPS5kIcA
83. ‘S’accrocher au nucléaire, une erreur stratégique’, Libération, 13 June 2011. http://www.liberation.fr/terre/01012343176-s-accrocher-au-nucleaire-une-erreur-strategique
84. ‘Worst drought in more than a century strikes Texas oil boom’, Bloomberg, 13 June 2011. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-13/worst-drought-in-more-than-a-century-threatens-texas-oil-natural-gas-boom.html
85. ‘Insiders sound alarm amid a natural gas rush’, New York Times, 25 June 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/us/26gas.html?_r=1
86. Britain’s first solar powered town, episode three’, YouTube film published on September 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kjA-wR8zxo
87. ‘Britain’s first solar powered town, episode four’, YouTube film published on March 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEklAJ1sc2o&feature=endscreen&NR=1
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90. ‘BP’s bid to clean up its act dealt blow by revelations in Russia case’, Guardian, November 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/05/bp-clean-up-russia-case
91. Charles Hendry MP and Jeremy Leggett debate, YouTube, 5 November 2011, uploaded 6 November 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-nKKsu2pQ
92. ‘Harvard students, citing economic inequality, stage walkout’, Bloomberg Businessweek, 8 November 2011. http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/blogs/mba_admissions/archives/2011/11/harvard_students_citing_economic _inequality_stage_walkout.html
93. ‘Oil will decline shortly after 2015, says former oil expert of International Energy Agency’, Oil Drum, 5 January 2012. Interview by Matthieu Auzanneau. This article previously appeared in Le Monde. http://www.theoildrum.com/ node/8797
94. ‘Fracking boom could finally cap myth of peak oil’, Bloomberg, 1 February http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-01/fracking-boom-could-finally-cap-myth-of-peak-oil-peter-orszag.html
95. Mark Lewis and Michael Hsueh, ‘Crude oil: iceberg glimpsed off West Africa’, Deutsche Bank, Global Markets Research, Special Report, 2 February 2012.
96. ‘Modern capitalism: an energy entrepreneur’s appraisal after twelve years in the markets’, presentation to the Breakthrough Capitalism conference, London, 29 May 2012, posted on YouTube 10 June 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77jmQ762hzo
97. ‘Familiar echoes in shale gas boom’, Financial Times, 6 May 2012. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/75942e5c-944e-11e1-bb0d-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1uGJ6 G3C6
98. ‘Learning from US shale gas experiences’, presentation by Art Berman to the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, Vienna, 30 May 2012.http://www.aspo2012.at/conference-presentations/day1part2/
99. ‘Exxon: “losing our shirts” on natural gas’, Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2012. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303561504577492501026260464.html
100. ‘Shaming the banks into better ways’, Financial Times, 28 June 2012. http:// www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6dc5b9a2-c117-11e1-853f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2NEN4L4fJ
101. Bob Diamond, Today Business Lecture, undated 2012. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9630000/9630673.stm
102. ‘Bare-faced bankers should be treated as criminals: prosecuted and imprisoned’, Guardian, 20 July 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/20/bare-faced-bankers-criminals-prosecuted
103. ‘The weekly wrap’, Steve Levine, Foreign Policy, 27 July 2012. http://oiland glory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/27/the_weekly_wrap_july_27_2012x_part_i?wp_login_redirect =0
104. ‘Nuclear “hard to justify”, says GE chief’, Financial Times, 30 July 2012. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/60189878-d982-11e1-8529-00144feab49a.html#axzz2NRp42ssP
105. ‘Are we entering a new fossil fuel era?’ Video of discussion panel at the FT Global Energy Leaders Summit, 18 September 2012. https://www.ft-live.com/ft-events/ft-global-energy-leaders-summit/sessions/panel-are-we-entering-a-new-fossil-fuel-era
106. Raymond Pierrehumbert, ‘The myth of “Saudi America”: straight talk from geologists about our new era of oil abundance’, Slate, 6 February 2013. http://www.slate.com/artides/health_and_science/science/2013/02/u_s_shale _oil_are_we_headed_to_a_new_era_of_oil_abundance.html
107. Euan Mearns and Rembrandt Koppelaar, ‘Oil watch: drill, baby, drill’, Oil Drum, 30 January 2013. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9795
108. David Hughes, ‘Drill, baby, drill: can unconventional fuels usher in a new era of energy abundance?’, Post Carbon Institute, 18 February 2013. http://www.postcarbon.org/drill-baby-drill/
109. Deborah Rogers, ‘Shale and Wall Street: was the decline in gas prices orchestrated?’, Energy Policy Forum report, 19 February 2013. http://energypolicyforum.org/portfolio/was-the-decline-in-natural-gas-prices-orchestrated/
110. ‘Banking industry’s year of shame ends in a blizzard of Libor revelations’, Observer, 23 December 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/23/banking-year-of-shame-libor?intcmp=239
111. ‘Peer-to-peer lending boom could make banks obsolete’, 17 December 2012, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/peertopeer-lending-boom-could-make-banks-obsolete-8421241.html
112. ‘How your pension is being used in a $6 trillion climate gamble’, Bill McKibben and Jeremy Leggett, Guardian, 19 April 2013. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/19/pension-6-trillion-climate-gamble?CMP=twt_gu
113. YouTube film of the Carbon Tracker 2013 report, Bloomberg HQ, 18 April https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn7T_AvPToY. This diary extract is compiled not from notes I took at the time — I was too busy chairing the discussion -but from written summaries that Paul Spedding, Steve Oman and Howard Pearce kindly provided me with for use in my account. I also used clips in their interviews for the YouTube film.
114. ‘Renewables 2013 — Global Status Report’, REN 21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century). http://www.ren21.net/REN21Activities/GlobalStatusReport.aspx Modern renewables include all members of the renewables family except traditional biomass.
115. For a description of these events see Half Gone, my 2005 book published by Portobello, pp. 168–78. http://www.jeremyleggett.net/books/
116. ‘Renewable energy vital to our nation’s security, economy’, Lt. General Richard C. Zilmer (Retd.), Renewable Energy World, 9 November 2012.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/11/renewableenergy-vital-to-our-nations-security-economy
117. ‘Powering America’s defense: energy and the risks to national security’, Center for Naval Analysis Military Advisory Board, May 2009. http://www.cna.org/reports/energy
118. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Back Bay Books, 2002).
119. ‘US military to build an army of renewable energy plants’, Business Green, August 2012. http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2197196/us-military-to-build-an-army-of-renewable-energy-plants
120. ‘US Navy defends “great green fleet” from Republican attacks’, Guardian, 20 July 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/20/us-navy-great-green-fleet-republicans
121. ‘IKEA plans for renewable self-sufficiency by 2020’, Recharge, 23 October http://www.rechargenews.com/business_area/finance/article325897.ece
122. ‘Physicist reviews nuclear meltdowns’, New York Times, 11 April 2011. http:// www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/science/12nuclear.html?_r=1&src=tptw
123. Kombikraftwerk, meaning combined power plant: http://www.kombikraft werk.de/index.php?id=27
124. Mark Jacobson and Mark De Lucchi, ‘A plan to power 100 percent of the planet with renewables’, Scientific American, 26 October 2009. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030
125. Amory B. Lovins, E. Kyle Data, Odd-Even Bustnes, Jonathan G. Koomey and Nathan J. Glasgow, Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security (Earthscan, 2004).
126. I describe this experience in The Carbon War, pp. 322—3.
127. Echoing the recommendation of the neuroscientists I heard at the Skoll Forum in 2010, I commend the work of Dan Ariely, and the audio tapes of the Skoll Forum sessions of 2010 and 2011, should the reader to whom this is new wish to delve deeper.
128. Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins, 2009).
129. Rory Carroll, ‘The temples of doom’, Guardian, 28 October 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/28/climatechange-population
130. SolarAid, and SunnyMoney on Newsnight, YouTube film posted 25 February http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efWlKLWPZ24&feature=youtu.be
131. Jeremy Leggett, ‘A climate for change’, Time and Fortune magazines, November 2007. http://www.jeremyleggett.net/2007/11/shell-pays-for-articles-in-time-and-fortune-critical-of-their-world-view/