Snake Oil

Museletter 262: The Oil 'Revolution' Story Is Dead Wrong

MuseLetter #262 / March 2014 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 186 KB) This month’s newsletter brings together the transcript of an interview on energy limits, which I did with Chris Martenson at Peak Prosperity, and a presentation on my book on energy limits — Snake Oil, which I gave recently in […]

Museletter 260: Shale gas, peak oil and our future

MuseLetter #260 / January 2014 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 119 KB) Happy New Year! The lead article this month is from an interview I did for the Belgian website De Wereld Morgen. The interview was given in conjunction with the release of the Dutch translation of my book Snake Oil: […]

Museletter 259: Snake Oil and the End of Growth

MuseLetter #259 / December 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 117 KB) The last newsletter of 2013 brings together an essay, an interview, and a blog post, all with the common theme of the intersection between economic growth and energy. Thank you for your support in 2013, and my very best […]

Richard Heinberg on Natural Gas: Bridge Fuel or Fool’s Gold?

Interview by Alex Wise, Seachange Radio This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise talks with Heinberg about his book, titled Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, and delve into the economic and environmental factors behind the natural gas boom, which to some is an important bridge fuel and to others is […]

Snake Oil

The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production… and sparked a massive environmental backlash in communities across the country. The fossil fuel industry is trying to sell fracking as the biggest energy development of the century, with slick promises of American energy independence and benefits to local […]

Museletter 252: Big Energy's Misleading Promise of Plenty

MuseLetter #252 / May 2013 by Richard Heinberg Hi readers, This month has been a rush of deadlines as I work to complete the final chapters of my new book ‘SNAKE OIL! How Big Energy’s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future’. This being the case I have no new writing to offer you this month […]

Museletter 251: There's Only One Real Option for Averting Economic and Ecological Ruin

MuseLetter #251 / April 2013 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 102 KB) This month’s Museletter is made up of a an essay I wrote for the book ‘Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth’. In addition I’ve included a link to a short video update about my forthcoming ‘Snake oil’ […]

Help me write my next book

MuseLetter #250 / March 2013 by Richard Heinberg Hi, I’m busy working on my next book titled SNAKE OIL! How Big Energy’s Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future, and would really appreciate your participation. The book is going to debunk big energy’s misleading promise of plenty, by presenting the facts of our energy predicament. It […]

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