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Everything about the Alberta oil sands development is impossibly big. Monster-sized trucks and giant excavators are carving up hundreds of square kilometres of land, thousands of kilometres of pipelines and roads have been laid, and millions of litres of water are being super-heated to process millions of tonnes of rock and sand.
Ten members of the Kuwaiti National Assembly last week tabled a motion to link Kuwait’s crude oil production with its oil reserve. The motion bears some resemblance to the Oil Depletion Protocol developed by Colin Campbell.
The world is quickly ramping-up toward a full awareness of the various fundamental crises affecting our way of life. How can we move beyond disillusionment and anxiety to embrace the life-changes that are being demanded of us?
Most
of our
modern medical system is oil-dependent, just like the rest of
society. Oil has been so cheap for so long that it has become a
pervasive presence in health care delivery.
China to face energy security crisis by 2010: forecast /
China pursues renewable energy, water and healthcare goals /
China Wind Power Boom May Bust Without Policy Change /
Lord Browne: China and the World Economy: Prospects and Challenges
Green energy: ethanol and biodiesel / Redesigning life to make ethanol / Biofuel demand creates chain reaction in crop prices / Ethanol’s rise prompts worries of a corn crunch / Agency seeks to develop military aviation biofuel
Australia: States begin setting own greenhouse targets / King County (Washington) to join carbon credit exchange / Australian policy on climate change is mostly hot air / We’re all heading for the fiery furnace if we go on taking these cheap flights
How U.S. homes are hurt by rising energy prices / Price appreciation at a 10-year low as existing-home sales soften / The housing & transportation affordability index (they are related!) / Earth homes make for affordable housing
‘Slow motion’ oil shock / Soaring bills ‘pushing millions into fuel poverty’ in UK / Is there an oil ‘bubble’? / Russia’s Yukos oil company declared insolvent / Poor countries bear up under oil price strain – IMF
As evidence accumulates foretelling the imminent shock of “petrocollapse,” one central concern of communities – including organized neighborhoods and small towns – should be the safety and continuity of their food supply.
The best students of peak oil currently put the peak somewhere between last December and 1,500 days hence. Moreover, Hezbollah vs. Israel has an excellent potential to spin out of control resulting at best in a significant reduction in Middle East oil exports.
“Dr Bakhtiari dishes it out to the Australian senators in fine style,” writes contributer CS.
