Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Lee Brain, son of an oil man, receives a standing ovation and brings a crowd to tears after delivering powerful & inspirational testimony in front of the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel in Prince Rupert on February 18, 2012.
How can fossil fuels and uranium be kept in the ground and agrofuels off the land in ways that do not inflict suffering upon millions? Mainstream policy responses to these issues are largely framed in terms of “energy security”.
Bottom Line: In the world we must strive to achieve, however difficult or implausible it may seem today, expanded extraction of the tar sands has no place.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Iranian confrontation
-The Greek bailout
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
Consider the latest news from the Middle East and North Africa, and one grasps why many U.S. oil and geopolitical analysts are cheering what they see as a prospect that the country will seriously trim its oil imports.
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-The Iranian confrontation
-The February oil market report
-Quote of the week
-Briefs
-Air sampling reveals high emissions from gas field [Nature]
-U.S. Shale Gas Exports Face Hurdles, Former Exxon CEO Says
-Poland Hopes Shale Gas Will Free It from Gazprom
-Fracking’s Toll on Pets, Livestock Chills Farmers: Commentary
– My Decade of Being “Peak Oil Aware”
– Peak oil educator Richard Heinberg challenges “binary thinking”
– U.S. Oil Fields Stage “Great Revival,” But No Easing Gas Prices
– Robert Rapier: Peak Oil & Carbon Emissions (video)
On January 23, 2012, Chesapeake Energy announced that it would curtail drilling in shale gas plays in the United States. Subsequently, other operators have followed suit. While the outcome of this announcement is unclear, it is a signal that the industry is in distress. One can argue that this distress stems from a lack of discipline as market price began to decline.
James Howard Kunstler speaks by phone with Arthur E. Berman, who is a petroleum geologist and consultant to the energy sector; editorial board member of The Oil Drum; associate editor of the AAPG Bulletin; director of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil. Berman has published more than 100 articles on petroleum geology and technology and has made more than 50 presentations in the last year to professional societies, investment conferences and companies. He speaks to Jim tonight about the history of shale gas “fracking” and a lot of the “magical thinking” surrounding the prospects of America becoming “energy independent” through fracking.
– Peak Oil Scare Fades as Shale, Deepwater Wells Gush Crude
– Oil, Food, Water: Is Everything Past Its Peak?
– Fulsome Fossil Fuels And The ‘Peak Oil’ Myth
– Peak Oil–No Longer the Right Question
(Note: several of these articles actually concede most of the points made by peak oilers.)
