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Peak Oil Map
James Howard writes on the Energy Resources mailing list:
Find other Peak Oilers in your part of the world with a fantastic tool from Google called Frappr.com. Launched on October 26th 2005 we hope to get as many PeakNiks onto these as possible as both a show of awareness of Peak Oil and also a way to find other PeakNiks in your area.
www.frappr.com/powerswitch (UK & Europe Centric)
www.frappr.com/peakoilers (USA Centric)
Kind regards, James Howard www.PowerSwitch.org.uk London, UK
(27 October 2005)
Problems with our oil from Iraq
Heading Out, The Oil Drum
One of the few cautious notes in the CERA predictions of an oil-filled future was their prediction on oil flow increases from Iraq.
For the immediate short term this concern is being more than justified. There is a growing concern about even the limited amount of oil that we are being able to recover from over there. The USA Today had a column about the drop in production, that is now taking place. The BBC has recently noticed that oil exports have temporarily stopped due to attacks and bad weather in the area, and when one starts putting pieces of this story together, one finds yet another example of the law of unintended consequences.
(26 October 2005)
Energy Minister: Russian oil peak by 2010
Chris Baltimore, Reuters
Russian oil output could peak at more than 510 million tonnes annually in 2010, or 10.2 million barrels per day (bpd), Russian Energy Minister Victor Khristenko said on Monday.
“It will reach a certain plateau of production within the time frame of 2010,” Khristenko told reporters. That plateau would be about 510 to 520 million tonnes a year, he said, or the equivalent of about 10.2 to 10.4 million bpd.
In September, Russia produced 9.53 million bpd, which was a post-Soviet high, according to Energy Ministry data.
(24 October 2005)
Report on “End of Oil” conference in London, Oct 11
Tim Barton, BlueGreenEarth
The End of Oil Conference on Peak Oil, Food and the Economy was a one-day conference, delivered on October 11th 2005 at the Insurance Hall in the City of London.
Tim Barton, from BlueGreenEarth (web editor) and the European Social Ecology Institute, who attended the conference for BlueGreenEarth, gives a report on each of the speakers, and on the Food Workshop (other workshops were organised – on Energy & Climate Change; Transport; and on the Economy).
(October 2005)
Also see another report on the conference by journalist Scott Redding.
United Oil Awareness Meetup Day is Nov 9th
Groups from 23 cities to participate
Open Press
Meetup.com, the world’s largest local community web site that helps people find and connect with others who share their interests at local gatherings, today announces that Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 is United Oil Awareness Meetup Day.
Oil Awareness Groups from 23 cities across in the US, Canada and New Zealand will be meeting on “United Oil Awareness Meetup Day”. Oil Awareness Meetups are designed “to generate ideas and discuss actions to raise public consciousness” and have the goal of helping people find others “concerned about the peak in oil production and the consequences of its inevitable decline.”
At the time of this release, 730 Advocates for Oil Awareness from 23 local Meetups will be part of United Oil Awareness Meetup Day on November 9th, 2005. They include [long list].
…For more information on United Oil Awareness Meetup Day visit oilawareness.meetup.com/day/all
(27 October 2005)
The coming petro collapse
Grant Causwell, NY Press
…More in the sprit of the age was the Petrocollapse New York conference held at the Unitarian Universalist Church on E. 35th Street earlier this month. The unifying idea of the conference seemed to be that an imminent shortage of energy is about to reduce the world to a bleak, barren landscape where the living feed upon the dead and burn the remains for warmth.
…the conference … was attended largely by the sort of persons you might see at Union Square holding up hand-lettered signs purporting to prove that Dick Cheney personally orchestrated the terror attacks of September 11.
…There’s not much to distinguish such doomsaying from that of the UFO cultists, believers in astral projection, Communists and magnetism enthusiasts Lundberg and Ruppert so resemble.
…The curious and interesting thing about the movement is that its articles of faith are valid and undisputed.
…Peak oil isn’t just a scary story, though. Sober forecasts have it arriving by the end of the decade, and even the lightest effects of demand suddenly exceeding supply would include ruinous inflation, the sort that could wipe out pensions and leave millions unable to pay their mortgages, and gas prices that would leave millions unable to make their daily commute. Utterly commonsense policies like shifting the shipping burden from highways to rail lines, imposing high fuel efficiency standards on SUVs, levying a stiff national gas tax and seeking to make every city’s public transit system as comprehensive as those in New York and Chicago are just fantasies right now.
Most worrisome of all—and this is, again, an idea Kunstler frequently returns to—is the general attitude that American science will somehow arrive at a magical solution, mainly because there never has been any large-scale need our science hasn’t met. This sounds like the logic that led to the botched occupation of Iraq—America had never failed at anything similar, and so would never do so. The effects of the coming energy crisis may in the end prove more like those of an exchange of nuclear artillery shells in north Germany than like an exchange of direct hits on New York and Moscow. It’s not a comforting thought.
(27 October 2005)
I guess this is an improvement in Peak Oil coverage from the NY Press. Last June, columnist Michael Manville attacked James H. Kunstler (Bomb the suburbs: Bleatings of a reactionary environmentalist. In this article, writer Causwell hold Kunstler up as a shining example in comparison to the hard-core doomsters. Ironically, considering his dismissal of Peak Oil people, Causwell seems to agree with all their arguments. -BA
