How quickly are we running out of oil 377 Oil Reserves 2012-02-08T17:26:58 polly itical barry.david.adams@googlemail.com Royal Dutch Shell plc .com 2012-02-08T17:25:54

, Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Sakhalin Energy’s 2011 Sales Rose by 1 Billion , Vedomosti Says Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan By Yuliya Fedorinova Feb 8, 2012 4:53 AM GMT Sakhalin Energy Russia s liquefied natural-gas producer , increased its revenue by 1 billion last year after raising prices , Vedomosti reported today , citing Chief Executive Officer Andrey . Galayev The project may break even as soon as this spring rather than in 2013 or 2014, as initially planned , Galayev told the Moscow-based . newspaper OAO Gazprom has a 50 percent stake in Sakhalin . Energy To contact the reporter on this story : Yuliya Fedorinova in Moscow at yfedorinova bloomberg.net To

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Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Motiva Port Arthur refinery hit by power outage sources Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan Tue Feb 7, 2012 6:27pm GMT HOUSTON Feb 7 Reuters Motiva Enterprises’ 285,000 barrel per day bpd Port Arthur , Texas , refinery was hit by a brief power interruption on Tuesday morning , according to sources familiar with refinery . operations Among the units affected by the power interruption was the refinery’s gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit , the sources . said The Motiva Port Arthur refinery is a 50-50 joint venture between Saudi Refining and Shell Oil Co , Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s U.S . . unit Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved

c143a28749780fa2e79bf42b394a8897 PeakOil 2012-02-08T17:25:51

: . The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2011 The Oil Drum After The Gold Rush : A Perspective on Future U.S . Natural Gas Supply and Price Posted by aeberman on February 8, 2012 11:05am Topic : Demand Consumption Tags : chesapeake energy eia forecast natural gas potential gas committee shale gas list all tags On January 23, 2012, Chesapeake Energy announced that it would curtail drilling in shale gas plays in the United States . Subsequently , other operators have followed suit . While the outcome of this announcement is unclear , it is a signal that the industry is in distress . One can argue that this distress stems from a lack of discipline as market price began to decline . After gas prices collapsed in mid-2008, U.S . operators continued to

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The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future Gas Boom Goes Bust The Oil Drum After The Gold Rush : A Perspective on Future U.S . Natural Gas Supply and Price TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2011 Posted by Admin on February 8, 2012 11:00am Topic : Site news During the past seven years , TheOilDrum.com has hosted analysis and discussion surrounding the possibility and implications of a near term peak in global oil production and importance of energy to society in general . Out of the 8,500 articles posted here all searchable by keyword in upper left the list below comprises what each author considered some of their most relevant . content The list is in alphabetical order , by last name of Oil Drum contributor . Click on the author's name to go to their list of selected articles . At the

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: The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future Gas Boom Goes Bust The Oil Drum TheOilDrum.com Archive 2005-2011 Drumbeat : February 6, 2012 DrumBeat Drumbeat : February 8, 2012 Posted by Leanan on February 8, 2012 10:34am Oil , Food , Water : Is Everything Past Its Peak An unprecedented crisis faced America . Oil production was going to peak in just three to five years , resulting in foreign oil addiction and economic calamity . The scientist responsible for slapping the nation into consciousness implored industry and government to act : The smug complacency that habitually blinds the American public must be torn , wrote David White , chief geologist of the U.S . Geological Survey . It was 1920. More than 90 years later , tempers still flare over the prospect of global peak oil .

20de44dc6c17eaaa0c02856c61537a04 Peak Oil Watch 2012-02-08T17:21:38

VIASPACE Director Purchases Additional 4 Million Shares of Common Stock on the …MarketWatch (press release)The term "peak oil'' is used a lot in the current hydrocarbon universe, we have an ideal and perfectly green solution to supplement the world's energy needs with Giant King Grass. I believe this is a once in a generation opportunity [...]

2da3f8348a2b27dd1da6de4bc65feade Peak Oil Watch 2012-02-08T17:21:38

Thought Train: The CollapseMorning StarThere are threats that we have not only hit peak oil, but that we are now running out fast, and if that happens we will all be in trouble. The world is now so small. Every country is in debt to every other country. There are now multi-national … More: continued [...]

2b9f428256f25ba42b6826ed368b84c2 Peak Oil Watch 2012-02-08T17:21:38

The peak oil model, initially developed by oil geologist King Hubbert and used to predict a peak in US oil production between 1965 and 1970, says that the production from an oil field grows exponentially over time, then peaks … More: continued here

663feaf4dfc3777e9e4c99d8828098bf Peak Oil Watch 2012-02-08T17:21:38

YouTube Video Link   Peak Oil Scare Fades as Shale, Deepwater Wells Gush CrudeBy Joe Carroll Feb 6, 2012 11:15 AM MT When Daniel Lacalle, in his early 20s, took a job with Spanish oil company Repsol YPF SA in 1991, friends chided him for entering a field with no future. "They all said, 'Why [...]

cf89c0ab464d10066dce74aa8ce3d156 Peak Oil Watch 2012-02-08T17:21:38

YouTube Video Link   Peak Oil: Q & A Session 14Website: MrEnergyCzar.com I'm answering your questions and comments during this Peak Oil Q & A video series. Please comment and I'll try to answer as many of your Peak Oil questions as I can. Shout outs go to MAISONdeGAI and Poltoja. Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter: Twitter.com [...]

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Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage. Peak Oil Scare Fades as Shale, Deepwater Wells Gush Crude Joe Carroll, Bloomberg … the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that more than 2 trillion … More: continued here

9832975173a5a7000f470a5b0f6c4bf3 Peak Oil Watch 2012-02-08T17:21:38

Tampabay.com Next up for fracking: Oil fields in AmericaTampabay.comThe year ahead, he says, "could really see the death of the peak oil hypothesis, something that has been underpinning a lot of the structural bullishness on oil." (The terminology is thus borderline ironic, since tight oil could make oil markets much …and more » More: continued here

799b48148f72d1eb813b308d98ab7950 Peak Oil Watch 2012-02-08T17:21:38

Coal Up 15% Thus Far In 2012 – Trend Likely To Continue, But Are There Better …Seeking AlphaThe short verdict: I'm bullish on coal, though I do think it is susceptible to disruption from natural gas and perhaps even oil if fracking can put an end to peak oil. In terms of what constitutes the [...]

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Colorado Springs Independent (blog) Browse MMJ CentersColorado Springs Independent (blog)There is no peak oil. There is no peak gas,” Newt said. “Those are terms used by the left to justify telling the rest of us we have to have austerity so they can control our lives on behalf of a theory. “You want to know [...]

9b585942732553bae42f6ac0b1f4f199 Peak Oil Watch 2012-02-08T17:21:38

Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics. More: continued here

c78b3a5fdb8bb392a73bbcd3d99a4508 Coyote Blog 2012-02-08T15:09:02

On the way to work today, which is normally only a 5-minute drive for me, there was a small fender-bender among a couple of cars.  The cars did exactly what you are supposed to do:  they pulled off the road into a nearby parking lot so they would not block traffic.  The police could not [...]

f5fcc158ce039d641536596e731f5497 Coyote Blog 2012-02-08T14:30:12

Via Radley Balko, a woman faces a year in prison for buying a single box of Sudafed and transporting it across state lines.  Really. Don’t miss the super BS statistic quoted by the state that they have seen an 80% decline in the children endangered by meth labs.

9f402e16f51124cdc75a2756de522721 Coyote Blog 2012-02-08T14:22:38

If you are going to create an homage to Detroit, one might consider actually filming in Detroit.

037e171b0c74c2239dd439330445a87b The Price of Oil 2012-02-08T10:25:40

 Sen. Mitch McConnell claimed recently that the Keystone XL Pipeline “doesn’t require a penny of our taxpayer money all the president has to do is approve it.” But our research reveals many places that the pipeline project benefits from many taxpayer subsidies. The refineries that are linked to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline as...Continue reading 'Keystone XL benefits from taxpayer subsidies'.

927a0a6931578b90c902910827cf0e65 The Price of Oil 2012-02-08T09:24:46

The hype surrounding the US gas industry continues to grow as America moves ever closer to its cherished dream of energy independence. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that “the U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973 Arab oil embargo...Continue reading 'The Hidden Danger of the Gas Boom'.

cebd77f62dcc0b20df1afc9c12dc37af Coyote Blog 2012-02-08T07:43:26

I was surprised to find this bit of awesomeness on the net: Update: Speaking of which, Carlos Miller, from whom the title of this post is stolen, was yet again arrested for filming police in a public place.

ce1de7ad554bc99edc0a214db10ef544 Coyote Blog 2012-02-08T07:07:39

Kevin Drum apparently believes the reason Republicans are not passing further stimulus spending is because such a stimulus would be too likely to have immediate results improving the economy and thus will help Democrats in the next election. This is the kind of politcal bullshit that drives me right out of the system.  I am [...]

108b986ec1606d6e6c38e9312a9bc487 Coyote Blog 2012-02-08T06:50:48

Good stuff from Roger Pilon at Cato: It’s true that our Framers, unlike many others, especially more recently, did not focus their attention on rights. Instead, they focused on powers— and for good reason. Because we have an infinite number of rights, depending on how they’re defined, the Framers knew that they couldn’t possibly enumerate all [...]

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Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Debate continues on Big Oil’s big profits Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan February 7, 2012, 2:23 p.m The five so-called super major” oil companies Exxon Mobil Royal Dutch Shell ConocoPhillips Chevron and BP have just wrapped up their fourth quarter earnings reports , but not without inspiring disdain over how they made those billions in profits and over what they were doing with . them Under the title Big Oil’s Banner Year , 8221 the Washington-based Center for American Progress on Tuesday , for example , pointed out that the five firms made a fourth-quarter record 137 billion in profits while producing less oil than they did the previous .

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Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Rise In Oil Thefts Threatens Nigerian Output Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan Published February 07, 2012 Dow Jones Newswires IBADAN , Nigeria Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s RDSA unit in Nigeria has said a rise in thefts of crude from its new Nembe Creek pipeline is jeopardizing the production and export of oil in Nigeria’s Niger . Delta Currently 140,000 barrels of oil per day is transported along the pipeline that takes most of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd . 8217 s and third party crude oil production in Eastern Swamp operations to the Bonny Terminal in the Niger . Delta The level of crude theft at Nembe Creek Trunkline

b00de673de2a07a5d5f4f96e20b23622 The Price of Oil 2012-02-07T22:30:24

  $135 billion Not the 2010 GDP of Hungary or Kuwait, no it’s slightly more than either of those. In fact, if it was a figure for the 2010 GDP of a nation, it would rank 54th, between Kuwait and Ukraine. It is in fact the combined 2011 profits of the five largest international oil...Continue reading 'The big, the bad and the subsidized'.

9d07b8061cc1542024b440ce156e8cb3 Royal Dutch Shell plc .com 2012-02-07T17:08:30

Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Mystery of how Shell escaped Brent Bravo criminal prosecution Feb 7th , 2012 by John Donovan The Sunday Times article may go some way to illuminating the mystery of how Shell miraculously escaped criminal prosecution . By John Donovan An article published in Scotland by The Sunday Times may help to explain why the health and safety division of the Crown office and Procurator Fiscal Service decided not to prosecute Royal Dutch Shell for alleged criminal offences arising from an explosion on the Brent Bravo . platform In 2005, Shell was fined a record 900,000 at Stonehaven Sheriff Court , for a series of safety failings on the platform which

ca40872dde76ff3c544de16f7ee589a5 Royal Dutch Shell plc .com 2012-02-07T17:08:27

Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell CEO Peter Voser 6.75 million salary plus 3.5 million bonus Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan I doubt that Mr . Voser will emulate Network Rail bosses in the face of a widespread public backlash against Fat Cat bonuses and waive his Fat Cat bonus , as they have , to improve safety Fat . chance By John Donovan According to a report filed on Monday with the U.S . Securities Exchange Commission , Peter Voser , the Swiss Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell Plc received 6.75 million in salary for 2011 plus a bonus of 3.5 million , a combined total of over 10 million . Voser wants half of his bonus 1.75 million paid in shares . The full

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Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell raises alarm over oil theft Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan FEBRUARY 6, 2012 LAGOS AFP Shell raised the alarm on Monday over repeated damage to a key pipeline in southern Nigeria by what it said were thieves seeking to siphon off crude for sale on the lucrative black . market The Anglo-Dutch oil giant said the Nembe Creek Trunkline had been hit by an increased number of attacks by thieves barely 16 months after the old line was replaced due to repeated sabotage attacks . While highly organised crude theft locally called bunkering” has long been a major problem in Nigeria , Africa’s largest oil producer , authorities have warned that

0a913bd94c73240032a353e52a16df34 Royal Dutch Shell plc .com 2012-02-07T17:08:22

, , Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell , UOP Among Companies Put on Blacklist by Iran , Mehr Says Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan By Ladane Nasseri Feb 6, 2012 4:10 PM GMT Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi has ordered five European companies , including Royal Dutch Shell Plc , to be put on a blacklist for failing to meet their commitments in the nation’s refinery projects , Mehr . reported Shell and UOP LLC , a unit of U.S . based Honeywell International Inc . were among the companies named in the report published today by the state-run news agency Qasemi ordered the National Iranian Oil Products Refining and Distribution Co . to halt foreign purchases of license in

34ff2cde1de1b01b497ea3257423db4a Royal Dutch Shell plc .com 2012-02-07T17:08:19

, Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell , Cosan’s Sugar Venture Will Expand Output 9 in New Season Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan FEBRUARY 06, 2012 By Isis Almeida Feb . 6 Bloomberg Raizen , a joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Cosan Industria Comercio SA in Brazil , will process 9 percent more sugar cane in the season starting in April than a year earlier , commercial director Ivan Melo . said Raizen’s cane processing in the 2012-13 season will be 57.6 million metric tons , with sugar output up about 15 percent to 4.3 million tons and ethanol supply about 10 percent higher at 2.4 billion liters 634 million gallons Melo said in an interview at the Kingsman

a3111c647dc6eb9a2f3fe6df4c80d34f The Price of Oil 2012-02-07T11:46:09

Late last week the Albertan and Canadian federal governments announced a new monitoring programme for the controversial tar sands. The Canadian press are reporting this as the two governments listening to their critics and restoring badly needed credibility. The Ottawa Citizen reports this morning that it “is a positive step toward restoring Canadian credibility on...Continue reading 'Tar Sands Monitoring is “To Boost Reputation”'.

fda51025572853c0e9bbe1c2d515e73e Royal Dutch Shell plc .com 2012-02-06T19:34:51

Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Royal Dutch Shell downgraded Feb 6th , 2012 by John Donovan Extract from Today’s Top Equity Ratings Changes” By Andrea Tryphonides Another week begins and we are here to guide you through the top rating changes in Europe : Monday Firstly Credit Suisse has downgraded Royal Dutch Shell to neutral from outperform following the company’s fourth quarter results released on Feb . 2. The brokerage highlights lower 2012-15 free cash flow estimates , cut by 22 due to higher capital expenditure . Also , it sees little potential for Shell to re-rate on multiples given sector-average free cash and dividend growth in the medium . term COMPLETE SOURCE

71b1cb4968cdd99df0eedfe981cef01c Coyote Blog 2012-02-06T16:52:19

One of the classic mistakes in graphics is the height / volume fail.  This is how it works:  the length of an object is used to portray some sort of relative metric.  But in the quest to make the graphic prettier, the object is turned into a 2D, or worse, 3D object.  This means that [...]

9106f2f17798ad658113215a5b596b61 The Price of Oil 2012-02-06T11:31:10

For a long time now many environmental organisations and front-line communities have warned about the dangers of drilling in the Arctic. Even before the Exxon Valdez scarred Alaska in 1989 people warned that drilling in the high north can have terrible consequences. And there was one major lesson from the Exxon Valdez: oil is much...Continue reading 'Arctic “should remain off-limits to drilling”'.

1a4c24c0ea6ac7817ea2fcaf700dfc31 Foreign Policy BlogsForeign Policy Blogs | The FPA Global Affairs Blog Network 2012-02-05T18:32:51

The cold snap that has frozen most of Europe solid has created some tensions over Russia’s role as supplier of natural gas to its neighbors. On Friday, a Gazprom official claimed that Ukraine was taking more than its share from the pipeline that runs through its territory. ...

49a80b5113039b3265ddf057098ad702 Coyote Blog 2012-02-04T06:22:36

Apparently, the gap between the productive and hard-working and those with less productive habits is growing larger.  David Brooks suggests that the productive be forced into a couple of years of government servitude.  The idea, as I understand it, is for the productive to teach the less fortunate how to be more diligent and productive in the [...]

c8ec8f50efc250a91dadce6f9e53747b Coyote Blog 2012-02-03T15:44:46

This could have also been labelled as from the files of “anti-trust is not about consumers.”  Apparently, a mapmaker in France has successfully sued and won damages from Google for unfair competition, ie from providing Google Maps for free. Just as in the Microsoft anti-trust case and just about every anti-trust case in history, companies who brought the suit [...]

36cf6ba81444710b9ab87050578cfefd ION Seis Matters Blog 2012-02-03T13:50:31

Each year the SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) hosts an Honorary Lecture Program, which is a companion program to their long-standing SEG Distinguished Lecture Program. The purpose of the program is to recognize an individual’s contributions to advancing geophysical science and technology. The program also helps to foster a sense of community amongst geophysicists by [...]

e00a572a85b29e0494d7561503399fc6 EU Energy Policy Blog 2012-02-02T20:06:47

A quick overview of European energy policy over the past 15 years shows that rationales for interconnections have evolved as new concerns have reinforced their importance. Originally they were seen as an instrumental part of the liberalization process. They are now considered as key to move renewable electricity across Europe. One immediate implication is that [...]

a8b0b02016e4a8f07387e266c49c7e29 Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-02-01T22:24:14

OilSupplyLimitsAndTheContinuingFinancialCrisis a b s t r a c t Gail E. Tverberg Since 2005, (1) world oil supply has not increased, and (2) the world has undergone its most severe economic crisis since the Depression. In this paper, logical arguments and direct evidence are presented suggesting that a reduction in oil supply can be expected to reduce the [...]

c7d5bc92886140065e865a1e7c082ecc The Price of Oil 2012-01-31T10:31:58

In a decision that will both dismay and worry environmental campaigners and communities facing fracking across Europe, the European commission has concluded that existing laws are adequate to cover the controversial drilling technique. A new report undertaken for the Commission by the Belgian law firm Philippe & Partners, argues that there is no need for...Continue reading 'EU: Fracking Laws Are Adequate, For Now'.

d4bc4d524a06421b1271ae9490acc1d4 The Price of Oil 2012-01-31T01:39:58

Earlier today, forty-four Senators introduced legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This bill would would approve the Keystone XL pipeline despite the Obama Administration’s rejection of its permit following months of intensifying protest against it and numerous studies revealing its vastly inflated economic impact. Our colleagues at Public Campaign and 350.org revealed that those...Continue reading 'The Best Bill Oil Money Can Buy'.

ee4fa51799effaf4f25fe42a6475834a The Price of Oil 2012-01-30T10:37:12

Later today the Republican Senator John Hoeven will try to introduce legislation seeking to bypass President Barack Obama and empower Congress to approve the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Hoeven’s bill, that would seek to take control of the Keystone decision, looks like a political non-starter.  To become law it would have to be approved...Continue reading 'TransCanada “Violating Laws” Over KXL Jobs Claim'.

b094c20e23acccd761df874d5c6fad9f Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-28T01:21:10

[ February 10, 2012; 5:00 am to 7:00 am. ] Village Vancouver and Vancouver Peak Oil are pleased to welcome Richard Heinberg to Vancouver as part of the CoDev World Community Film Festival. Richard is one of the world’s most effective exponents of the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels and towards a post-growth economy. Author of 10 books, including 2010′s The End of [...]

50f1549a59d9a5a63566337868296597 Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-28T01:11:11

[ February 2, 2012; 7:00 am to 9:00 am. ] Village Vancouver and Vancouver Peak Oil are pleased to welcome Nicole Foss, aka Stoneleigh, of The Automatic Earth back to talk about the future of our economy. She packed a lecture hall at Langara College last year with tales of impending economic collapse. Now, after the Occupy Movement launched last fall, she has [...]

49d5121075f43b76b23520e2475c5d1e Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-26T18:41:02

How to Boil a Frog Saturday, January 21, 2012 by Jon Cooksey Up here in Canada, we’re in the middle of a sort of “dirty tricks” campaign by the federal government that’s so lame that even our right-tilting newspapers have called them out on it. The campaign is ostensibly designed to pre-empt opposition to the Enbridge pipeline, which [...]

3ae593a262d528826e733a3d60823bc9 The Price of Oil 2012-01-26T08:16:32

You can SHARE this infographic on Facebook. What if you were in Vegas, and a friend told you there was a slot machine in the corner that was giving out $59 for every $1 that was put in?  You’d think the machine was broken, and that it was rigged. What if an investment advisor told...Continue reading 'One Dollar In, Fifty-Nine Out'.

ed9a58cc4acbaaec246c8cf99f989b0d EU Energy Policy Blog 2012-01-25T16:41:12

Grids are already developing offshore, and this development will continue even though at what pace and how they will develop is still uncertain. Indeed, there are different possible configurations for a future offshore grid: it can be a simple multiplication of standalone lines that provide each a single service (either connection of generation, or connection [...]

03cde5f7d528aed8da41252040663a2a Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-25T07:24:08

51e9226ae87515209932a0968eafd616 Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-25T01:43:51

A Whistleblower’s Open Letter to the Citizens of Canada My name is Andrew Frank. I grew up in a small town in the Okanagan valley of British Columbia. My granddad taught me how to fish. My father was a well‐respected lawyer known for his unwavering integrity, and my mother was a favourite kindergarten teacher.Both have always [...]

0b0dea524d63f0e6c37c169624d3db6b EU Energy Policy Blog 2012-01-22T17:18:02

One outcome of the recent Durban climate negotiations is a non-binding agreement to reach an agreement by 2015 that will bring all countries under the same legal regime by 2020. This “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” – has opened an important window. To explain what I mean requires a brief review of some key points [...]

60d21314052b33ca0cfce0f56c56ad21 Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-21T02:07:29

9e43023991772b4cc1d6310de02dcd0b Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-18T18:42:22

By Terry Glavin, The Ottawa CitizenJanuary 12, 2012 China is gaining control of Canada’s natural resources. Carbon bomb for the planet. Energy insecurity for Canada. Vandy If there were a global competition for the most brazen and preposterously transparent attempt by a ruling political party to change a necessary subject of national debate with alarmist distractions and [...]

82aa21b811e4d5a6697c5df7ff5302ce EU Energy Policy Blog 2012-01-18T11:29:18

Could Fukushima put an end to the French exception? Everybody in France is now talking about, and arguing for or against, a prospective nuclear phase-out. Political Candidates running for the next presidency defend their affirmative or negative position on this issue with figures published in several recent studies assessing the investment costs of an eventual [...]

ac0b04f5c644a7b53ebbccf136209b99 Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-16T09:52:36

09f0acbd3a3884009f457b709b71db6d Vancouver Peak Oil 2012-01-16T08:32:24

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:27 AM Mish Shedlock Great summary of Peak Oil and Overpopulation in relation to each other. Vandy “In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would [...]

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