[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 23 Jan 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 23 January 2006 5:02:33 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 6 results (news)
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> Treehugger: Peak Oil Report: Half of Kuwait Oil Reserves Disappear
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> Yesterday, it was reported that the oil reserves of Kuwait are only  
> half what was previously thought (but how do we know that the new  
> figure is accurate?). "'Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW) learns  
> from sources that Kuwait's actual oil reserves, which are  
> officially stated at around 99 billion barrels, or close to 10  
> percent of the global total, are a good deal lower, according to  
> internal Kuwaiti records,' the weekly PIW reported on Friday [...]  
> 'Kuwait's remaining proven and non-proven oil reserves are about 48  
> billion barrels.'" That means world reserves just dropped, as if by  
> magic, by...
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> <http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/peak_oil_report.php>
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> Peak Oil A Reality
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> Peak oil is the looming reality and the Bush Admin couldn't resist  
> the temptation to seize Iraq and American soldiers aren't leaving
> Former CIA Director James Woolsey paints a dire scenario: A  
> terrorist attack causes a months-long, 6 million-barrel reduction  
> in Saudi Arabia's daily petroleum output, sending the price of oil  
> skyrocketing past $100 a barrel
> Are global oil supplies about to peak? Are they, in other words,  
> about to reach their maximum and then go into decline? There is a  
> simple answer to this question: no one has the faintest idea
> Most oil producing...
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> <http://www.countercurrents.org/peakoil.htm>
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> Portland Peak Oil: Books, films and media
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> Have any book, magazine or film suggestions for Portland Peak Oil  
> that you don't see here? Email us!
> The following books are recommended by group members. This is by no  
> means a comprehensive list of all books pertaining to peak oil,  
> self-sufficiency, permaculture/gardening, or energy. For further  
> reading suggestions, try this list of must-read peak oil books or  
> the Portland Permaculture book list .
> The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by  
> Richard Heinberg (2003)
> The world is about to run out of cheap oil, and this updated  
> bestseller predicts the implications...
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> <http://www.portlandpeakoil.org/resources/media.html>
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> WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: What Does Peak Oil Look Like?
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> "Peak oil" -- the notion that global production of oil will soon  
> reach its maximum, and will subsequently decline (even while demand  
> continues to rise) -- is getting quite a bit of attention lately.  
> It's not surprising; peak oil is a useful metaphor for the broader  
> problem of not paying attention to longer-term problems, as well as  
> an implicit driver for a move away from fossil fuels. If global  
> warming isn't reason enough, the argument goes, and if sending  
> money to corrupt and unstable nations isn't reason enough, running  
> out of oil is.
> Today's Green Car Congress...
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> <http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002824.html>
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> WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Peak Oil and the Curse of  
> Cassandra
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> I'm getting a shiver of deja vu these days when I read the peak oil- 
> related websites. Some are boggling over the fact that "global  
> warming" got more attention than "peak oil" in the discussions over  
> the recently-passed Energy Bill in the US, while others are simply  
> furious that the American public (and these websites seem  
> predominantly American in focus) isn't taking peak oil sufficiently  
> seriously . They're particularly bothered that mainstream  
> discussion of the idea, when it happens, often pushes the peak date  
> out by ten to twenty years (or more) , making it seem like a...
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> <http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003224.html>
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> An interview with peak-oil provocateur Matthew Simmons | By Amanda  
> Griscom Little | Grist Magazine | Main Dish | 03 Nov 2005
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> Author of the recently published Twilight in the Desert: The Coming  
> Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy , Simmons is founder of  
> Simmons & Company International, an investment bank that handles  
> mergers and acquisitions among energy companies, and counts among  
> its clients Halliburton, General Electric, and the World Bank. A  
> graduate of the Harvard Business School, he served as an energy- 
> policy adviser to the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
> I believe we are either at or very close to peak oil . If I'm  
> right, then we have to assume that five or 10 years from now we'll  
> be producing...
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> <http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/11/03/simmons/index.html>
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