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By subverting the feedback we need concerning global warming, peak oil and a host of other environmental problems, those engaged in this public relations game of confusion risk letting the equivalent of a house fire occur in the biosphere.
Oil sands pumping problems: report
Mixing oil and water – Alberta oil sands
Oil patch girds for battle with Ottawa
Norway falls to 5th place among oil exporters
Graph of Norway drop (new)
Mexico’s top oil field declining fast – Pemex
Cantarell decline – is peak oil correct?
CIBC no longer predicting $100-a-barrel oil soon
There are trend lines and clues from across the earth pointing to serious troubles just ahead, but once again they are not generally perceived as making a “convincing case,” especially when nobody really wants to contemplate the conclusion.
Flesh on the bones of Mexican oil production
IEA forcasts oil demand growth of 2% a Year
Australia report urges vehicle congestion charge
ASPO Australia response to Senate report
Pennsylvania Launches Energy Independence Plan
Nigeria’s Energy Crisis
Saudi to boost US forces fuel supply
China’s military ordered to cut energy use
China’s strategic oil reserve begins operation
This inquiry was prompted by the question of whether Australia should be concerned about ‘peak oil’. This term refers to the theory that, for fundamental geological reasons, global conventional oil production will reach a peak and then start an irreversible decline soon enough to be of concern.
A canary in the Chinese coal mine
China to keep relying on coal
Carbon-free living: China’s green leap forward
Lester Brown interview (“PO may be imminent”)
Australia oil supply report to be released
“The End of Oil” – Link TV special Feb 9, 10
Peak oilers’ error
Bartlett on CNN at 5:30 ET Feb 6
DVDs of the Boston Peak Oil Conference
Oil workers targeted as Nigeria violence grows
Peru’s Amazon oil deals denounced
Mixing oil and water
Oil Search, Exxon drop Papua New Guinea gas gipeline
It is unlikely that oil scarcity will prove capable of triggering a global collapse, according to Norwegian scholar Jorgen Randers, co-author of the prophetic 1972 book The Limits to Growth. “The period of high oil prices will give strong stimulus for increased energy efficiency,” he said. However, the rapid increase in emissions of climate gases does have the potential to cause a collapse.
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Shell president says energy abounds
Exxon and Shell see profits rocket
