Oil – Nov 5
Big oil’s expensive black gold quest /
Estimated U.S. drilling hits 21-year high /
Canada: Forecast predicts energy exploration will decline in 2007
Fossil Fuels
Latin America energy policy – Nov 5
Chavez threatens to halt oil to U.S. /
Foreign investors bow to Morales in Bolivia /
As wells dry up, Mexico could be forced to privatize oil
Are You Voting for the Terminator’s Terminals?
If you are a California voter, you might have heard about the big celebrity protests in Malibu a few weeks ago. Led by actor Pierce Brosnan,
everyone from Barbra Striesand to Sting showed up to protest a planned LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminal that BHP Billiton wants to build 14 miles
off the coast at Oxnard.
Peak oil – Nov 2
Forecaster: Global oil output ‘will start to decline by 2015’ /
TOD: Peak Oil Aware NY Governor? /
ASPO-USA: support for Global Energy Flow modelling /
The oil crisis started 30 years ago /
Whatever happened to Peak Oil?
Draining Canada first
Sating America’s prodigious energy appetite depends on the continued availability of Canadian energy sources. How long can Canada go on behaving like America’s most compliant energy colony?
Report on a talk at the ASPO-USA conference in Boston.
The Oil Crisis Started 30 Years Ago
It is customary to look for the critical year of oil production in absolute terms, but in the year 1970 or thereabouts there was another important “conjunction,” to use an astrological metaphor.
Politics: The Eighty Percent Pay Cut
One of the unmentionable facts of today’s politics is that the relative prosperity of the industrial nations depends on the impoverishment of the rest of the world. Lacking a willingness to deal with this reality, proposals for political solutions to peak oil and other aspects of our current predicament fall short.
If we build it, will they come?
The “we” refers to North America. The “it” refers to liquified natural gas (LNG) ports. And, the “they” refers to LNG tankers from exporting countries. Unfortunately, the answer to the question is “probably not,” at least not in the numbers we would like them to come.
(Report from the recent ASPO conference)
N. America energy policy – Nov 1
Bush admin appoints Exxon’s Lee Raymond to solve America’s energy crisis /
U.S. drops bid over royalties from Chevron /
$450 million for coal research /
British Columbians in dark about ‘Enronization’ of energy
Shell-BP merger talk – Oct 31
Big oil may have to get even bigger to survive /
BP-Shell merger back on the cards /
Desperation may be heating this oil rumour
Shale and oil sands – Oct 31
TOD: Canadian oil sands production update /
Oil sands: Gargantuan destruction /
Coaxing oil from huge U.S. shale deposits /
Shell is going to the wall for oil
NZ energy minister: ‘the end of cheap oil’
Whether conventional oil production will peak in the next year, or the next decade or a decade or two later, is moot. But it will peak and, in policy terms, the timeframe is short…
The Government believes the more serious and more immediate problem is climate change, and that is why we as a nation need to actively reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produce.
