[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 28 Feb 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 28 February 2006 5:12:08 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 19 results (news)
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> Ottawa Business Journal - Home Page
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> We're all in for a rough ride if global oil production dwindles as  
> expected over the next 10 years, but the need to find alternative  
> fuel sources creates huge business opportunities, experts say.
> Less than a week before U.S. President George Bush told Americans  
> in his State of the Union address they were "addicted to oil," the  
> 300 participants at the Crude Awakening forum were asked to  
> consider how prepared Ottawa is to kick the habit when oil becomes  
> too rare and expensive to fuel our economic and social structures.
> The world's oil and natural gas supplies...
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> <http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/293123325362527.php>
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> Solutions & sustainability - Feb 22 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil  
> News Clearinghouse
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> ...Two international workshops will form part of the project and  
> the outcomes will feed into the Gleneagles Dialogue, which last  
> November agreed to take forward the deployment of clean  
> technologies to put global emissions on a path to ‘slow, peak and  
> decline’.
> States are starting to come to the nation's rescue, passing a range  
> of energy-saving measures to counteract official Washington's  
> myopia on the perils of global warming and our overwhelming  
> dependence on foreign oil.
> That's the message from the state PIRGs — public interest research  
> groups active in 30 states. They make a strong case that...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13076.html>
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> Organic fruit and vegetable growing as a national policy: the Cuban  
> story | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> But fruit are not the only productive trees grown, coconuts are  
> there and many other palms, notably an oil palm Leycithis dubia  
> that is supposed to produce oil of better quality than the commonly  
> grown oil palms Elaeis species.
> This article is based on a presentation Micheline Sheehy  
> Skeffington gave in Dublin at FEASTA 's What will we eat as the oil  
> runs out? Food security in an energy-scarce world conference in  
> June 2005. Thanks to FEASTA's Bruce Darrell and Micheline for  
> allowing us to repost it.
> The Community Solution to Peak Oil have a new documentary ready...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/13067.html>
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> EV World: The World of Electric, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell and  
> Alternative Fuel Vehicles
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> The world is near "Peak Oil," the point where half of its  
> recoverable oil has been consumed. Petroleum -and natural gas--  
> provides fuel for transportation and machines, energy for heat and  
> air conditioning; is used in pesticides and fertilizers,  
> pharmaceuticals and medicines, and is integral to an extensive  
> array of manufactured goods. Oil is the indispensable resource of  
> industrial society.
> Absent alternatives to oil our nation's public health system will  
> face threats many thought were eliminated once and for all one  
> hundred years ago when the profession organized itself around germ  
> theory and gained the upper hand in controlling...
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> <http://www.evworld.com/rssnews.cfm?section=communique&rssid=11142>
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> Articles
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> 4) Sweet, sweet, black gold -- crude, that is. How could we have a  
> kerfuffle concerning the Middle East without oil and gas being  
> involved? The UAE has 8% (98 billion barrels) of the world's proven  
> oil reserves . The UAE also has the world's fifth largest reserves  
> of natural gas.
> Now, here's the funny thing. Look at the Energy Information  
> Agency's projected chart of UAE natural gas production and  
> consumption. You have to wonder why it's using so much. Well,  
> according to the EIA, "Much of the natural gas development in the  
> UAE itself involves the...
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> <http://www.howestreet.com/articles/index.php?article_id=2094>

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> Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Geology; Reservers; Oil Fields  
> >> Not So Peak Oil
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> The April 30 edition of The Economist had a fantastic summation of  
> the arguments for and against imminent peak oil. Some excerpts:
> The United States Geological Survey did a comprehensive study in  
> 2000 and concluded that such a peak was at least two decades off.  
> The IEA broadly concurs, arguing that oil supplies will not become  
> constrained until after 2030, provided the necessary investments  
> are made. However, some analysts disagree sharply.
> Oh Hubbert, that hack. He missed those "vast quantities" in the  
> Gulf of Mexico when he was able to pinpoint his near precession  
> prediction of the US oil peak...
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