[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 15 Feb 2006
Antony Barry
tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au
Wed Feb 15 10:31:00 EST 2006
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> Date: 15 February 2006 5:08:23 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 21 results (news)
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> Peak Oil resolution in U.S. House of Representatives |
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> A peak oil bill has been filed in the House of Representatives with
> the support of the newly formed Peak Oil Caucus, founded by Rep.
> Roscoe Bartlett (Rep, MD) and a number of co-sponsors. The members
> of the caucus are James McGovern, Vern Ehlers, Tom Udall, Mark
> Udall, Raul Grijalva, Wayne Gilchrest, Jim Moran, Dennis Moore.
> Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the
> United States, in collaboration with other international allies,
> should establish an energy project with the magnitude, creativity,
> and sense of urgency that was incorporated in the `Man on the Moon'
> project to address...
>
> <http://energybulletin.net/11100.html>
>
>
> Peak Oil on BBC2’s Newsnight - ASPO Ireland (Peak Oil)
>
> The BBC’s flagship news discussion programme, Newsnight, covered
> peak oil with a full length debate on ‘the End of the Age of Oil’
> Guest speakers were James Howard Kunstler, Sonia Shah, Richard D
> North, Tom Burke, Prof Paul Ormerod and Prof Felipe Fernandez-
> Armesto. The phrase ‘peak oil’ was mentioned several times,
> including by Jeremy Paxman himself.
>
> <http://www.peakoil.ie/newsletters/713>
>
>
> Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide
>
> Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Oil traders are paying record prices to get
> crude almost five years from now, reflecting increasing doubts the
> oil boom will go bust.
> Crude oil today rose for a third session, to the highest in more
> than four months as a cold front sweeping across Europe pushed
> temperatures in Moscow to the lowest in 50 years, boosting fuel
> consumption. Oil for March delivery on the New York Mercantile
> Exchange traded at $69.05 a barrel at 12:25 p.m. Singapore time,
> $1.80 short of the record on Aug. 30. The contract for delivery in
> December 2010 hasn...
>
> <http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=akim.xUWeN38>
>
>
> AlterNet: Permanent Energy Crisis
>
> President Bush's State of the Union comment that the United States
> is "addicted to oil" can be read as pure political opportunism.
> With ever more Americans expressing anxiety about high oil prices,
> freakish weather patterns and abiding American ties to unsavory
> foreign oil potentates, it is hardly surprising that Bush sought to
> portray himself as an advocate of the development of alternative
> energy systems.
> An eruption of oil-related ethnic violence in Nigeria, resulting in
> a sharp reduction in that country's petroleum output.
> Threats by Iran to cut off exports of oil and gas in retaliation
> for any...
>
> <http://www.alternet.org/story/32077>
>
>
> ASPO USA - News
>
> Notes from the National Academy of Sciences Oct 20-21 Workshop on
> Peak Oil Potential
> Notes from the National Academy of Sciences Oct 20-21 Workshop on
> Peak Oil Potential
>
> <http://www.aspo-usa.com/news.cfm?nd=1416>
>
>
> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
>
> SYNOPSIS: While it can't be predicted exactly when Peak Oil will
> occur, Heinberg said it is not a distant concern.
>
> <http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=10691>
>
>
> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
>
> SYNOPSIS: London conference on peak oil presented both sides of the
> debate, but everyone is agreed that when peak oil does happen, its
> impact on the world economy.
>
> <http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?
> section=communique&newsid=10740&url=http://news.independent.co.uk/
> business/analysis_and_features/article339347.ece>
>
>
> Free Market News Network
>
> Given my firm belief in free will and choice, I think that we can
> influence history, even individually, so I do not subscribe to a
> deterministic or apocalyptic view. We are not doomed, unless we
> remain passive and inactive in the face of these threats. Many
> direct actions are and can be taken to keep the thundering horsemen
> at bay. Consequently, this article will also indicate efforts
> occurring at local levels, especially with respect to transforming
> Peak Oil from a threat into a potential opportunity.
> While Europe uses less resources we are still have an unsustainable
> lifestyle regarding the depletion...
>
> <http://www.freemarketnews.com/Feedback.asp?nid=3325>
>
>
> Exterminism and the World in the Wake of Katrina - Part 3
>
> Local Peak Oil Preparedness Events
> Post Peak Lifestyle
> Oil & Energy
>
> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/
> ww3/011806_exterminism_katrina3_summary.shtml>
>
>
> ${log.root}/lowem.log
>
> China has, according to Japanese reconnaissance data, completed at
> least one new drilling platform in the East China Sea and may
> already be tapping into natural gas and oil fields, escalating a
> dispute with Japan over the rights to billions of dollars worth of
> underwater energy reserves. A second Chinese drilling platform in
> the area also appears nearly complete.
> Official surveys say the disputed fields contain an estimated 7
> trillion cubic feet of natural gas and up to 100 billion barrels of
> oil.
> The Indonesian government's dramatic fuel price raises may force
> about 200 textile companies into bankruptcy and...
>
> <http://www.post1.net/page/lowem/20051025>
>
>
> Resource Investor - Peak Oil - Matt Simmons Answers Tough Questions
> About Peak Oil
>
> Home >> Sections >> Peak Oil >> Matt Simmons Answers Tough
> Questions About Peak Oil
>
> <http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=12211&t=61>
>
>
> seattleoil.com :: Index
>
> Discussion and planning for peak oil preparedness
> Seattle Oil Group
>
> <http://www.seattleoil.com/phpBB2/index.php?
> sid=b027df43e771d6842fca49c65c20881c>
>
>
> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
>
> Oil's peak will be signaled by a decade-long plateau in non-OPEC
> member production
> When might the peak of world oil production arrive, and what might
> be the peak production rate? These are key questions, with many
> unknowns but few equations. The most we can do is to make some
> educated guesses based on past observations.
> Global oil production's peak will probably not form a well-defined
> crest. Instead, it will likely stretch out as an irregular plateau.
> I will crawl out onto the limb to say that the plateau might begin
> around 2010 and extend to...
>
> <http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=article&storyid=975>
>
>
> EV World Blogs: Personal Perspectives on the Future In Motion
>
> Ken Deffeyes, an apparently well-known Geologist and Peak Oil
> Theoretician, has posted on his website that we passed Peak Oil on
> December 16, 2005.
> So, it is conceivable that we have passed the big day, and yet that
> possibility has not yet become a more prominent part of the ongoing
> Peak Oil discussion and debate.
> Of course, he could be wrong, and the projections for "soon, but
> not quite yet" may be correct. Nonetheless, it's plausible that we
> might pass Peak Oil and not even know it, and few news agencies
> would cover it. Even the peak oil...
>
> <http://www.evworld.com/blogs/index.cfm?
> page=blogentry&authorid=51&blogid=191&archive=0>
>
>
> ENERGY: Threat of Scarcity Draws Oil Companies to Cuba
>
> Repsol YPF is now gearing up to resume operations, in partnership
> with Indian and Norwegian oil companies.
> The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India confirmed that it will
> participate - through its international exploration arm ONGC Videsh
> - together with Repsol YPF and the Norwegian firm Norsk Hydro, in
> prospecting and drilling in Cuban waters.
> India, which imports 70 percent of the oil it consumes, has also
> negotiated separate concessions over two more oilfields in Cuba, as
> well as agreements for prospecting and joint production of oil in
> Venezuela. Venezuela supplies Cuba with approximately 90,000
> barrels a day under preferential payment...
>
> <http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32157>
>
>
> Peak oil - Feb 14 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
>
> ...[Roscoe] Bartlett, who was elected to Congress in 1992, has been
> known in Maryland as a staunch social and fiscal conservative. But
> over the past year, he has been attracting national attention for
> his persistent advocacy of the theory that the world's oil
> production is at or approaching its maximum capacity. In doing so,
> he is echoing concerns among liberal environmentalists and national
> security-minded conservatives that the nation's reliance on foreign
> oil enriches hostile interests and puts the country's security at
> risk.
> The peak oil information in the article should be familiar, but the
> biographical details...
>
> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12830.html>
>
>
> Peak Oil Hoax - The Energy Non-Crisis - Assata Speaks - Hands Off
> Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On
> Purpose - Liberation - Forum
>
> CHAPTER 1 - The Great Oil Deception ... There is no true energy
> crisis. There never has been an energy crisis . . . except as it
> has been produced by the Federal government for the purpose of
> controlling the American people. ...
> CHAPTER 4 - An Important Visit by Senator Hugh Chance ... What
> followed included some of the most astonishing answers I have ever
> heard in my life. This is not opinion, but is actually what I heard
> from a man who was one of the original developers of the Prudhoe
> Bay oil field. He said, "Senator Chance, there is no energy crisis!
> There is an...
>
> <http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/showthread.php?
> s=63edc416d9c06124e9bdf8f9a56351b4&p=74225>
>
>
> Peak oil: Dec. 16, 2005 | Gristmill: The environmental news blog |
> Grist Magazine
>
> Noted oil analyst Kenneth Deffeyes has put a new date on peak oil:
> " we passed the peak on December 16, 2005 ."
> That's it. I can now refer to the world oil peak in the past tense.
> My career as a prophet is over. I'm now an historian.
> David Roberts on Oil addiction: Symptoms continue in the Gulf of
> Mexico .
>
> <http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/2/13/152344/037>
>
>
> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
>
> The critical precursor to the peaking of global oil production will
> be when non-OPEC oil production plateaus. Then OPEC steps to center
> stage, for they will be the only producers capable of increasing
> production. Non-OPEC producers, on the other hand, already operate
> at or near capacity, with no production quotas or ceilings. As long
> as non-OPEC producers are able to satisfy some of the growing
> demand for oil, OPEC can be held in check. But as soon as non-OPEC
> production fails to increase in the face of growing demand, OPEC
> will have the incremental market to...
>
> <http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?
> section=article&archive=1&storyid=975&first=4194&end=4193>
>
>
> ASPO USA - News
>
> Peak Oil Review
> Peak Oil in World Watch
> Matt Simmons Responds to CERA in the Peak oil Review
> Peak Oil resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives
> Peak Oil in World Watch
>
> <http://www.aspousa.org/news.cfm?nd=1449>
>
>
> Bush may be taking the idea of peak oil seriously
>
> But Bush's proposal for solar or safe nuclear power will not lead
> energy prices to fall anytime soon. So while it's true that, like
> most Bush statements, this one clearly contained a kernel of
> politics, it may also have reflected genuine concern about a real
> problem: America's dependence on oil, regardless of where it comes
> from. This concern, which originated decades ago among maverick
> geologists, has spread recently to Bush's Department of Energy
> (DOE) and may have been at least partly responsible for his
> surprising and uncharacteristic remark about the country's
> addiction to oil. If...
>
> <http://peakoil.com/modules.php?
> name=News&file=article&sid=11980>
>
>
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