How to prepare communities for Peak Oil

I’m seriously thinking of putting together a small presentation for my City Council. In it, I will introduce the possibility of Peak Oil and it’s worst case scenarios for our City. I don’t believe scare tactics will ever work to really make people understand just how serious Peak Oil and the subsequent Decline will be… …

The Electrification of Vancouver Island (passenger and freight rail)

(There is an addition to this article here) I’ve proposed to a number of people over the past few months that what needs to happen in order to limit our consumption of oil *and* our emissions of climate-change inducing fumes, is to electrify our transportation networks. With regular joes like myself, I usually get a …

Mini-Hydro and alt-energy grows in BC

Good news from my neck of the woods. Last week, BC Hydro announced a new generation projectrs from Independant Power Producers. Political objections about allowing business to control electrical energy resources aside… it *is* good that new generating capacity will be coming online in BC, and the majority of it is from renewable sources. A …