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The Chinese government plans to triple China’s energy supply over the next 15 years. That means adding enough new power stations to supply the entire energy needs of Sweden each year.
Oil sands plants make or lose money on labour costs and the cost of the energy they need to drive the plants — both of which are only marginally important to conventional oil.
Look for more future increases and don’t expect prices to roll back to past levels.
Book Review: Craig Unger’s notably intelligent piece of investigative reporting, House of Bush, House of Saud, uncovers the corruption and greed that continues to hinder peace in the Middle East
Energy crisis could loom, experts say. Politics, corporate moves are factors.
If volatile natural gas prices persist and the country continues without a policy to encourage more production, jobs will be exported and the country will continue to lose its core manufacturing business
Cars running on coal? It could happen in this country – some day.
J. Robinson West argues that while the Hubbert curve analysis applies where full commercial exploitation has taken place, in many areas, other factors, including politics and policy, weigh in.
BP seeks to maintain this myth that current reserves are sufficient today to support current production for forty years. By perpetuating this misleading notion, I think one has to conclude that BP seeks to mislead—this is not just an accident.
An oil industry conference on Peak Oil from 19 – 21 October 2004, Koblenz-Lahnstein, Germany.
The Energy Bridge, with its tankers far beyond the horizon, eliminates the risk of explosions on land and thus sidesteps not-in-my-backyard controversies.
Georgia’s government said Friday it had ordered a temporary halt to construction work on a section of a multi-million-dollar (euro) Caspian oil pipeline, alleging that the pipeline consortium had failed to meet requirements on environmental safety.
