[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 12 March 2006

Thu Mar 23 15:37:02 EST 2006

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> Date: 12 March 2006 5:19:54 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 45 results (news)
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> The Herald-Mail ONLINE
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> U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett never spares words in his fight to  
> prevent an American energy crisis, but the platform for his views  
> on "peak oil" will jump from the House floor to the silver screen  
> this weekend. more
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> <http://www.herald-mail.com>
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> SHELLGAME: DoE Claims Massive CO2 Injection Could Quadruple US  
> Proven Oil Reserves
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> While the Department of Energy recently announced that injecting  
> Co2 into old oil fields may quadruple US oil reserves, the hidden  
> costs and dangers of this method may leave you wondering who  
> actually benefits in the end. And since when have we been able to  
> trust DoE’s numbers anyway?
> Jamey Hecht looks at some of the hidden costs of CO2 injection  
> which haven’t been disclosed by those who continue to offer low or  
> no-cost solutions to Peak Oil.
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> <http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ 
> ww3/031006_shellgame_summary.shtml>
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> The Fusion of Peak Oil & Climate Change | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak  
> Oil News Clearinghouse
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> Designing Energy Descent Pathways: One community's attempt at  
> designing a prosperous way down from the peak....
> Peak Fish: Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom,  
> says scientist...
> Peak Oil and Climate Change are two historic events for humans and  
> life on earth. The first threatens modern industrial ways of living  
> and the latter threatens the climatic systems that are an integral  
> part of our world and the way we live and survive.
> A quick recap on both. Peak Oil is the point of historic maximum  
> global oil flow, Climate Change is the alteration of established  
> climate...
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> <http://energybulletin.net/11549.html>
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> Peak oil - Feb 28 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> Some experts believe the age of oil is near its end. Others insist  
> that there are trillions of untapped barrels left -- and that the  
> future of oil depends more on what happens above ground than below.
> ....Yergin, the founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research  
> Associates, a leading oil consultancy based in Cambridge, likes to  
> tell this story [concerning fears about oil supply after WWI] to  
> people who are worried that we have entered the final, terminal  
> phase of exhausting the world's oil supply that we have passed the  
> point of what experts call ''peak oil."
> A lot of...
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> <http://energybulletin.net/13228.html>
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> Top oil groups fail to recoup exploration costs |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun – but what  
> are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies...
> The world's biggest oil companies are failing to get value for  
> money when they explore for new reserves, according to research by  
> Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultant.
> The report shows the commercial value of oil and gas discovered  
> over the past three years by the 10 largest listed energy groups is  
> running well below the amount they have spent on exploration.
> The findings come at a time when international oil groups are  
> considering how far to boost...
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> <http://energybulletin.net/2470.html>
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> ASPO USA - Peak Oil Review
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> As of January 2006, ASPO-USA is offering a free short publication  
> that provides time-short individuals with a quick overview of  
> issues and events that are the building blocks of the larger peak  
> oil story.
> The Peak Oil Review is intended to be an “executive summary” of  
> weekly news. It will typically contain two parts: a page of news  
> briefs plus a commentary written by either an ASPO-USA regular or a  
> guest analyst. The news summaries will highlight price trends,  
> depletion numbers, threats to supply, new supply completions,  
> substitute fuel issues, new analysis and reports, and more--all...
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> <http://www.aspousa.org/PeakOilReview.cfm>
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> An Adventure in Domestic Sustainability - Global Public Media
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> Peak Oil Action
> Life after the Oil Crash
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> <http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/news/648>
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> Infoshop News - Radicollapse: Invitation to Join a Discussion
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> "Serious threats to large-scale hierarchical civilization include  
> peak oil, climate chaos, ecosystem destruction, depletion of  
> natural & mineral resources, agricultural unsustainability, and  
> infectious diseases like bird flu.
> * Megan Quinn's "How Cuba Survived Peak Oil": http:// 
> www.globalpublicmedia.com/articles/657
> * Jan Lundberg's essays at www.culturechange.org , i.e. "End-time  
> for USA upon oil collapse"
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> <http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060310131700370>
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> From the Stacks: March 10, 2006 (Articles) Staff
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> Advance uncorrected proofs of Derrick Jensen 's two-volume Endgame  
> (Seven Stories Press) arrived in our mail this week. Dedicated to  
> Shawnee organizer/resister Tecumseh, and weighing in at 929 pages,  
> it forcefully, lovingly, despairingly, and tirelessly describes how  
> human civilization -- with its global capitalism, plutocracy, and  
> oil-based economy -- is destroying planet Earth ( Volume 1: The  
> Problem of Civilization ) and examines what is to be done to take  
> down civilization and live sustainably ( Volume 2: Resistance ).  
> Militant and provocative, Jensen looks at systems of exploitation  
> from many angles and criticizes those who fail to act and refuse to  
> even...
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> <http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2006-03/articles/ 
> 12033-1.html>
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> radicollapse
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> This list emerged from desire to continue a discussion started at  
> the 2006 Earth First! Winter Rondezvous in South Florida. Serious  
> threats to large-scale hierarchical civilization include peak oil,  
> climate chaos, ecosystem destruction, depletion of natural &  
> mineral resources, agricultural unsustainability, and infectious  
> diseases like bird flu. The crisis in New Orleans after Hurricane  
> Katrina demonstrated the speed with which local governing  
> authorities can collapse, as well as the power of grassroots  
> decentralized organizing to unite communities & successfully meet  
> the needs of people. What can radical environmentalists & social  
> justice activists learn from that situation, and others? How can we  
> prepare...
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> <http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/radicollapse>
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> Peak Oil, Economic Collapse, and the Efficacy of Government » The  
> Anthropik Network
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> Jeff Vail has some sobering news for anyone looking to the  
> government to solve Peak Oil:
> Vail goes on to describe the kind of economic myopia that hampers  
> any solution to Peak Oil, but he also cites an an interview with  
> John Williams that I'd actually also seen earlier.
> Expending energy on convincing governments of Peak Oil is futile  
> much less expecting them to solve this problem. It is debatable  
> that a lower energy future is even a problem. Governments can only  
> respond to a problem with a solution which increases complexity and  
> this responce only tightens the noose...
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> <http://anthropik.com/2006/03/peak-oil-economic-collapse-and-the- 
> efficacy-of-government>
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> The Mid-Apocalypse Review: 2006 Predictions » The Anthropik Network
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> Deconsumption shows that at least one of these--secession--is  
> already in play. When Chavez offered cheap oil to America's poor,  
> Bush said that Americans would never be duped by his commie bribes-- 
> of course then, Maine's governor went ahead and signed a deal with  
> Citgo.
> Basically the Federal government--itself only an extension of Big  
> American Oil since it's leaders straddle both boardrooms--refuses  
> to provide for it's own. So the states begin to look outside their  
> Federal borders for aid. Put another way, what the general populace  
> discovered in the wake of Katrina is...
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> <http://anthropik.com/2006/01/the-mid-apocalypse-review-2006- 
> predictions>
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> Bartlett to Appear in Documentary About Oil Demand
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> U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett never spares words in his fight to  
> prevent an American energy crisis, but the platform for his views  
> on "peak oil" will jump from the House floor to the silver screen  
> this weekend.
>
> <http://peakoil.com/modules.php? 
> name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=12829>
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