Phil has been busy:
Green Machine - Green machines: cars of the future

Wright's prediction of $8 per litre is based on a scenario of oil becoming too expensive to extract, thus leading to a decrease in oil production, a situation often described as peak oil.

Petroleum engineer Phil Hart from the Australian Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO Australia) believes peak oil is not far away.

"Oil production has been essentially flat since 2005, and we have only another couple of years at this same sort of level of production before we start seeing oil production going into decline," he says.

I found these two stories interesting because it demonstrates how pervasive the Peak Oil meme is becoming.
Australian Gamer - Og's World of Economics

Oil, for instance, is one of these. A concept called Peak Oil centres around a point where the demand for oil will grow to a point where supply will simply never meet demand before finally running out. Pessimistic thoughts on this read along the lines of peak oil leading to the global collapse of the industrialised civilisation followed by sharp decreases in population. Slightly over-dramatic, but a real world concern as the resource is one of the most important to the continuing functioning of our world. To put it into a WoW context, it would be the equivalent to, say, end level instances only being able to be run a certain amount of times before they simply won't respawn. If this were to happen, the entire WoW world would stagnate and collapse due to there being no ability to further gear players.

Hospitality Magazine - Meeting of minds for the good of food

Linked to the Sydney International Food Festival “Hungry for Change” is a gathering for food lovers but not wholly about food. The summit has been organised by the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, which is calling for urgent and robust conversation about our food future in the face of local and global threats to food security through climate change, urban development, peak oil and more.

TV NZ - Consent for Otago Windfarm rejected

Resource consent for Project Hayes, a $2 billion, 176-turbine windfarm, each at a height of a 30-storey building, was granted to the power company in 2006 and 2007, but was subsequently appealed to the Environment Court.

Radio NZ - Low-lying nations appeal for help over climate change

Low-lying Pacific and Indian Ocean nations have put out a desperate call for help ahead of the United Nations' climate change talks in Copenhangen.

Stuff.co.nz - World oil peak approaches

The world will have to find four Saudi Arabias by 2030 if it wants to maintain its oil dependency, the International Energy Agency says.

The reality of peak oil is fast approaching, and more must be done to develop and encourage the use of alternatives including solar and nuclear, the agency's chief economist has warned.

Sky News - Oil prices have tumbled

Oil prices have tumbled after the US government said the unemployment rate topped 10 per cent for the first time since 1983.

Benchmark crude for December delivery gave up $2.74 to trade at $76.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

NineMSN - Barcelona climate talks achieve little

Developing countries grouped in the G77 threatened to walk out of the December meeting because they said rich countries were not meeting their obligations under the Kyoto protocol.

Brisbane Times - Revealed: polluters' fear tactics on climate

BIG greenhouse polluting companies around the world, employing thousands of lobbyists, are exerting heavy pressure on governments to weaken climate change laws at home and slow progress on an international climate agreement in Copenhagen, a global investigation reveals.

In Australia, 20 companies who have already won the most concessions from the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme employ 28 lobbying firms with well over 100 staff, many of them former politicians, political advisers or government officials.

Speaking of companies that pressure government:
SMH - Browning down Australia

NOT long after Oleg Deripaska was named Russia's richest man for 2008, his company's Australian chairman wrote to the Department of Climate Change in Canberra with a dire warning: the oligarch's considerable investment in Australia was being threatened by the plan being advanced by the Rudd Government to tackle global warming.