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Talisman CEO says we've peaked
"Global oil production has peaked and will soon decline resulting in higher prices for consumers, Talisman Energy Inc. CEO Jim Buckee said Wednesday.
"I believe we're already here (at the peak)," Buckee said at the company's annual meeting in Calgary. "I think it's fair to say the era of cheap energy is over."" Leave a commentTory green plan favours oilpatch, critics charge
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Mike De Souza, CanWest News Service
Published: Tuesday, May 08, 2007
OTTAWA -- The Conservative government fended off opposition accusations Tuesday of favouritism for the Alberta oilpatch as various industry groups started raising questions about new federal environmental regulations that make ( Read more... )Great read on Peak Oil
"Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for peak oil than the US"
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I attended a panel session last night put on by the Alberta Environmental Stewardship Coalition (AESC). What drew me to the session was the presence of Steven Mandel, Preston Manning, and Mark Anielski on the panel
The AESC was founded by an upstart group of youngsters (early 20s) who saw Manning gave a speech regarding his view that “Albertans ( Read more... )wood and pellet emissions
Burning biomass for heat energy is carbon neutral. I also like it because I will almost certainly be able to obtain wood in future for cheap or free. Doing so will mean diverting construction waste from the landfill.
The problem is the pesky particulate matter emissions. Here is an excellent schematic communicating just how much more particulate ( Read more... )A measure of the dispersal or degradation of energy
There are many definitions for entropy. I understand it as the fact that ordered systems always degrade.
Sometimes entropy is amazingly slow in human terms. For example, the dense, exceedingly useful molecules organized as petroleum are nicely sequestered away under the crust of the earth. They will stay there in a state that is virtually ( Read more... )Carbon Sequestration
As opinion an opinion leader on environmental issues Alberta, the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta needs to develop a position on carbon sequestration.
The Canadian federal government will announce in March, 2007 that it is investing $150 million in a carbon sequestration pipeline.
The pipeline will be used to move CO2 from large emitters to aging oil ( Read more... )Peak Oil
It's very hard to know what to believe in the media. However, The Oil Drum (theOilDrum.com) has a very technical, very convincing post arguing that Saudi Arabia oil production has peaked. It's here .
If it's true, the ramifications are staggering. In Norway, the decline of oil production is very rapid because they have produced their oil using very ( Read more... )