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	<description>David Strahan is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary film-maker who specializes in popularizing some of the most difficult and important stories in business and science.</description>
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		<title>Peak oil report exposes UK position</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=396</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published at The Ecologist, 8 October 2009. 
There is a “significant risk” that conventional oil production will peak before 2020, and forecasts that delay the event beyond 2030 are based on assumptions that are “at best optimistic and at worst implausible”. So says a major new report that puts the excitement over recent ‘giant’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP’s ‘giant’ oil discovery would last three weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=384</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BP announced the discovery of a &#8216;giant&#8217; oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico last week, but what does it really amount to? 
The company issued guidance that the discovery, at its Tiber Prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico, is bigger than its Kaskida discovery of 2006, which it said was over 3 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak oil around 2030 says IEA</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=358</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Independent caused a stir recently by claiming that the International Energy Agency&#8217;s chief economist Fatih Birol had predicted peak oil in &#8216;about ten years&#8217; &#8211; a radical departure from the IEA&#8217;s position to date. 
Under the headline Warning: oil supplies are running out fast, the Independent’s science editor Steve Connor wrote: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economist strikes again</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=329</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Emmott argued in the Times this week that the world’s oil supply problems are simply down to OPEC greed, dismissed peak oil as the work of “planetary gloomsters” and assured readers that the world is not running out. Trotting out a series of discredited arguments, he maintains there would be plenty of cheap crude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The great biogas bungle</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=316</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in The Ecologist on 4 August 2009, and Sustainable Business, October 2009. 
When David and Ruth of The Archers decided to set up an anaerobic digester to make biogas from farm waste, they quickly ran into trouble. Intended to produce electricity for the national grid and heat for their poly-tunnels, the project was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi oil gameshow loses the plot</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=308</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A shorter version of this article was published in the The Independent on Sunday, 5 July 2009
The auction of Iraqi oil production licences last week was truly historic – not least because it was the first such exercise ever to be broadcast live on television. Over 30 companies were expected to compete for 8 contracts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global warming: send in the tanks</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=300</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the Guardian, 18 June 2009. 
Forget expensive high tech silver bullets like nuclear fusion and carbon capture and storage, the solution to climate change lies in the humble electric immersion heater that sits in your hot water tank under the stairs. That’s the view of Dr Mark Barrett, senior researcher at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’re in OPEC’s hands, but are they tied?</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=291</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was first published in the The Independent on Sunday, 14 June 2009
BP famously ‘doesn’t do’ oil price forecasts. After 18 months in which crude has ricocheted from just under $100 per barrel to an all time high of $147, then down to less than $40, and now up to $73 again, you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renewable supergrid by 2030</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=288</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short version of this article was published in the The Independent on Sunday, 14 June 2009
Europe could build an electricity supply based entirely on renewable energy by 2030, according to scientists making a presentation at the House of Commons this week. MPs will hear that an electricity ‘supergrid’ across Europe and North Africa could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still no UK energy policy</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=266</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the The Independent on Sunday, 26 April 2009
“All targets and no trousers” seemed to be the gist of the reaction from environmentalists to the Budget this week. Greens of various shades welcomed the introduction of new legally binding carbon reduction goals but attacked the lack of a clear roadmap showing how they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric avenues</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=251</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the The Independent on Sunday, 29 March 2009
&#8216;The future has not been cancelled,&#8221; quipped BP chief executive Tony Hayward in a bullish presentation about the company&#8217;s prospects recently. But one thing the company has been forced to cancel, or at least postpone, is a reception to celebrate its centenary at the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green grid</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=198</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A version of this article was published in New Scientist on 12 March 2009. 
Thomas Edison might have relished the irony. Just as his most famous legacy, the incandescent light bulb, heads for extinction, his other great passion, direct current, is set to boom. The bulb that dominated lighting for over a century is now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why $40 per barrel is no cause for complacency</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=184</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Strahan and Gary Kendall of SustainAbility
These days it is comforting to have one thing not to worry about.  As the world teeters on the edge of a full-blown depression, and business is crushed between slumping sales and seized-up credit markets, at least the oil price is in retreat.  From an historic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Channel 4 News interview: London oil summit</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=180</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My interview on Channel 4 News on 19 December, about the London oil summit, can now be seen on You Tube. Click on &#8216;read more&#8217;. The segment starts about one and a half minutes into the recording. 

Channel 4 News. 
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		<title>Radio 4 interview: why is the oil price plunging?</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=179</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oil price has fallen by 25% in a week, to around $40 per barrel, more than $100 lower than its all time peak in July. To hear my interview on Radio 4&#8217;s flagship Today programme this morning about the reasons for the collapse, and the likely outlook, follow the links below.  
Listen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pipe dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=178</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First published in the Guardian, 3 December 2008. 
An old friend was once memorably described as a sixties liberal with Catholic guilt – you can just imagine the internal contortions. I got the same impression of grinding gears while reading the International Energy Agency’s latest long term forecast, the World Energy Outlook 2008, published last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the road for hydrogen?</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=173</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A shorter version of this article appeared in New Scientist magazine on 26 November 2008. 
Whatever happened to the hydrogen economy? At the turn of the century it was the next big thing, promising a Jetsons-style future of infinite clean energy and deliverance from climate change. Hydrogen, it was claimed, would transform the entire energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Energy Secretary</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=172</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr Miliband, 
Congratulations on your recent appointment to the most important job in government. 
Just as Spike Milligan played a part in Hitler’s downfall, I could perhaps claim a small hand in your promotion: I advocated the creation of a ‘Department of Energy and Climate Change’ and cabinet-level Energy Secretary in my book The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the oil price slump is bad news</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=171</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First published in The Independent on Sunday, 26 October 2008 
Once again Gordon Brown has energy policy all wrong. Even before OPEC announced an output cut of 1.5 million barrels per day, the prime minister had denounced the move as &#8220;absolutely scandalous&#8221;, fearing it would force the oil price higher just as the world slides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green fuel for the airline industry?</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=170</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in New Scientist on 13 August 2008 
IF YOU have become addicted to the fly-cheap philosophy espoused by budget airlines over the last decade, it could be time to rethink your travel plans. Airlines now find themselves facing a crude oil price that has doubled to more than $140 a barrel in just 12 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil price respite will be brief or unpleasant</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=169</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the Telegraph, 9 August 2008 
With the oil price apparently in full retreat, it is tempting to breathe a sigh of relief. After soaring to an all-time high of more than $147 a barrel in mid-July, over the last four weeks the cost of crude has dropped by almost $30. And although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP’s Russian roulette belies stance on peak oil</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=168</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the Independent on Sunday, 22 June 2008 
It must be increasingly lonely being Tony Hayward. As the oil price continues to soar there is a gathering consensus that global oil production is nearing some fundamental geological limits, yet BP&#8217;s chief executive continues to argue valiantly that the causes of the current oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsnight interview</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=167</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My interview on Newsnight on 30 May can now be viewed on You Tube, or below in this post &#8211; just click on &#8216;read more&#8217;. 

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		<title>Oil: why Gordon doesn’t get it</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=165</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 07:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the Telegraph, 29 May 2008. 
Even by the low standards if his government, Gordon Brown&#8217;s recent pronouncements on oil have been shockingly ignorant. Writing in a national newspaper yesterday he argued the price has soared to $135 because of barriers to production that are “technical, financial and political”. There are problems here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happens next?</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=163</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 10:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the Independent on Sunday, 25 May 2008
Never mind speculation, forget the weak dollar. To understand the soaring oil price you need only glance at figures from the US government which show that global oil production has been essentially stagnant &#8211; at just under 86 million barrels per day &#8211; since early 2005. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenland oil estimates over-reported</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=162</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter to the Times  
Sir, the Times incorrectly reported that Greenland has 47 billion barrels of ‘estimated oil reserves’ (‘Global warming could help Greenland to independence’, print edition, 7 May), which is wrong on two counts. 
First, the 47 billion estimate comes from a study by the United States Geological Survey published in 2000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you solve a problem like jet fuel?</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=153</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 08:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in Petroleum Review, May 2006. 
Say what you like about Sir Richard Branson, but you cannot fault his willingness to suffer in the cause of a photo-opportunity. At the launch of a recent Virgin Atlantic test flight to demonstrate a jet fuel made from coconut and babassu oil, the Virgin boss took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t panic, it’s only the oil supply</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=160</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 15:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the Telegraph , 3 May 2008
Polishing the portholes on the Titanic hardly does it justice. This week saw ministers giving an uncanny impersonation of Corporal Jones urging calm over the Grangemouth refinery strike; lorry drivers protesting in Park Lane over a two pence rise in fuel duty; and much righteous indignation over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Oil Shock is now available in paperback</title>
		<link>http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=140</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doh! I felt such a fool. While checking the manuscript of The Last Oil Shock for the new mass market paperback edition, available from 17 April, I noticed a real howler. 

 Click here for new paperback edition
In order to expose the fantasy of the hydrogen economy I had done a calculation to show how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lump sums</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the Guardian, 5th March 2008 
For weeks South Africa has suffered rolling blackouts caused in part by a shortage of coal. Gripped by unusually bitter snowstorms, China recently banned coal exports for the next two months. And at Newcastle in Australia, the world’s largest coal export terminal in the world’s largest coal [...]]]></description>
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