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The most recent natural gas storage update from the Energy Information Agency, covering the week ended July 21, packed an unwelcome surprise when it reported a net withdrawal of natural gas to the tune of seven billion cubic feet (bcf).
It is hard to imagine that the apparently benign unconcern for where the United States ends and Canada begins might suddenly be transformed into a pitched battle of words and deeds. And yet, that is almost certainly where these two old friends are headed.
Behind this looming turnabout is one very troubling development: Natural gas production in North America has leveled off.
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“Dr Bakhtiari dishes it out to the Australian senators in fine style,” writes contributer CS.
Presentations from April relocalization conference /
ASPO 5 – follow it live! /
Fog of war obscures way ahead for black /
BBC Documentary: War for Oil /
Plan? What plan? Alberta’s energy future
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the false hope of biofuels / Malaysia suspends biodiesel effort / Helping Air Force blue turn green
Audio: Peak Oil and the Environment in Washington /
Kunstler and Darley: The Post-Carbon Society – An Overview /
U.S. Army War College: Preemptive Energy Security: An Aggressive Approach to Meeting America’s Requirements /
La Plata County: Methane production past its peak
Sure, there is a lot of oil and gas left out there for the driller’s bit (if you can wait long enough for a delivery of drill bits). But the deposits that the extraction companies will encounter will be smaller, further afield, and more expensive to develop and produce. The Anadarko and Phelps Dodge plays certainly illustrate another point, one for which T. Boone Pickens is equally famous: that you can still “drill for reserves on Wall Street.”
Natural Gas concerns continued /
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Norway Crude-Oil Output Slides /
High cost of asphalt steamrolls plans /
Royal Society of Edinburgh Energy Report published /
Hanford nuclear waste plant cost rises to $11.55 billion
“…the supply-demand fundamentals seem consistent with the view now taken by market participants that the days of persistently cheap oil and natural gas are likely behind us.”
Our current industrialized food system is not sustainable due to it’s over dependence on non-renewable fossil fuel energy and it’s degradation of the natural systems on which it depends for its existence.
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