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Peak oil theater: “Flamingo/Winnebago”
A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper
Thaddeus Phillips returns to Earth with a peak oil parable.
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The texture of a cracked desert floor. A plastic flamingo. The twin tones of gypsy jazz and western pedal-steel guitars. According to Thaddeus Phillips, these are the sounds and images that guide his new Flamingo/Winnebago.
In collaboration with Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental and the Albuquerque, N.M., jazz ensemble La Chat Lunatique, Phillips’ multimedia theater piece touches on a kitschy past (Vegas gangsters) and a bleak future (peak oil theory, the Earth consumed by gluttonous ruin).
Phillips, a Denver, Colo.-born freestyle-skateboarder-turned-performance-artist who lives in Philly (when he’s not living in Bogota, Colombia), has touched on the planet’s piggish use of its resources in previous stage productions The Earth’s Sharp Edge and Henry Five Live. But not with the warmth or wariness Flamingo/Winnebago promises.
Synopsis:
Two travelers take to the road as the planet reaches its tipping point. An Indian immigrant, disillusioned with his world, disappears into the American West in a Winnebago. A young man hits the road searching for his past at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Roadside attractions and rest stops include: New Mexican pueblos, the Wigwam Motel, Route 66, RV parks, the Las Vegas Monorail and Korean Karaoke. Flamingo/Winnebago explores the planet’s tipping point: the excessive use of energy in the U.S., peak oil theory, and the rapidly changing weather
(29 August 2007)
The Round-Up: August 28th 2007
Stoneleigh, The Oil Drum: Canada
The developing credit crunch is looking less contained by the day, despite the recent bounce in the equity markets. The interconnectedness of global markets really becomes apparent when contagion threatens to spread.
Following on from the Montebello SPP summit, Naomi Klein brings us an interesting twist on the right of protestors to be heard – surveillance as the new participatory democracy.
More commentators are weighing in on the question of Newfoundland oil royalties, while a pipeline capacity shortage looms in Alberta and potential conflict brews in BC over coal bed methane.
(28 August 2007)
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ODAC News — Wednesday 29 Aug
Douglas Low, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
Economics
1a/ US could be heading for recession (The Telegraph, Mon 27 Aug)
1b/ Overheating sees house price downturn in Europe (The Telegraph, Mon 27 Aug)
1c/ What’s in the Pipeline? (CIBC World Markets, Fri 24 Aug)
1d/ Unsold homes in US rise by 5% (Financial Times, Mon 27 Aug)
1e/ Business Comment: US housing crash reminds us [UK] we’re due a correction (The Telegraph, Wed 29 Aug)
Food Prices
2a/ Wheat price surge bites baguettes (Financial Times, Sun 26 Aug)
2b/ Cost of meat ‘is set to rise’ (BBC News, Tue 28 Aug)
Geopolitics – Kashagan Oil Field, Kazakhstan
3a/ Kashagan Faces Russia-Style Squeeze (The Moscow Times, Mon 27 Aug)
3b/ Kazakhstan Orders Eni to Halt Work on Biggest Field (Update3) (Bloomberg, Mon 27 Aug)
Iran – Oil
4/ Iranian Oil Officials Fear Second Purge As Nozari Is Lined Up For Ministerial Role (Middle East Economic Survey, Mon 27 Aug)
Oil and Gas Revenues
5/ Peak Oil – less Govt revenue (Trinidad and Tobago Express, Mon 27 Aug)
Middle East Energy Supplies
6/ Middle East risks fuel oil crunch period, says IEA (Business Intelligence Middle East, Sun 12 Aug)
Oil Prices
7/ Investec’s Guinness sees oil price doubling – FEEDBACK (Reuters, Thu 19 Jul)
National Petroleum Council Peak Oil report
8/ NPC Report is Hand Grenade in Bubble Wrap (ASPO-USA, Mon 27 Aug)
Russia – Anna Politkovskaya
9/ Anna Politkovskaya’s assassination, and the subsequent investigation
9a/ Chechen ‘hitmen’ and FSB agents are held over journalist’s murder (The Times, Tue 28 Aug)
9b/ Showing Progress (Russia Profile, Tue 28 Aug)
USA – Natural Gas Supplies
10a/ US Natural Gas Supplies comment (Energy Intelligence, Tue 28 Aug)
10b/ Conoco’s Mulva: “The World Has A Natural Gas Problem” (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 29 Aug)
USGS – East of Greenland Oil and Gas Estimates, 2000 v 2007
11a/ USGS Cuts Greenland Estimate (Energy Intelligence [Oil Daily], Wed 29 Aug)
11b/ USGS assessment indicates vast undiscovered oil, gas in Arctic (Platts, Tue 28 Aug)
11c/ USGS Releases New Oil and Gas Assessment of Northeastern Greenland (USGS, Tue 28 Aug)
(29 August 2007)
