Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

International oil & gas

Stock markets and global oil interests (including war) would be included here, as would attempts to get oil out of high risk, low return areas from oil shale in Colorado, to natural gas and heavy oil in the high eastern Arctic. The tar sands are part of this trend and should be seen as such. What happens with the tar sands will have a tremendous impact on what kind of choices are made elsewhere, environmentally and socially.

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International Oil & Gas is a category for stories relating to tar sand production or climate change but not in any of the projects already listed geographically. This includes other regions of the planet with horrible environmental and high energy costs that, like the tar sands, are only a "choice" because of high prices and the global depletion of easily recoverable oil reserves. Such issues as the threat of war on Iran, "instability" in Iraq and Venezuela or disasters like Katrina will all drive up oil prices, which in turn doubly encourages tar sand production-- by price demand and energy demand. Stock markets and global oil interests (including war) would be included here, as would attempts to get oil out of high risk, low return areas from oil shale in Colorado, to natural gas and heavy oil in the high eastern Arctic. The tar sands are part of this trend and should be seen as such. What happens with the tar sands will have a tremendous impact on what kind of choices are made elsewhere, environmentally and socially.

Corporate America's Latest CounterAttack: The Green Masquerade

Corporate America's Latest CounterAttack:
The Green Masquerade

By ALAN MAASS and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

Alan Maass: The latest trend for corporations is to show off green
credentials--BP has a series of commercials with a guy standing in a
field talking about alternative fuels, and Rupert Murdoch is vowing to
make his international operations carbon neutral. What kind of impact do
corporate green solutions have on curbing global warming?

Jeffrey St. Clair: NONE. That's the short answer. Must we really elaborate?

Limits to growth and the Hedberg conference

Published on 3 Oct 2007 by ASPO-USA / Energy Bulletin. Archived on 3 Oct 2007.
Limits to growth and the Hedberg conference

by Dave Cohen

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
— Dorothy Thompson

Oil on the slide

Oil on the slide
We have had plenty of warnings about the consequences of an early peak in global oil production, but no one in Westminster seems to be listening.
Jeremy Leggett
October 2, 2007 4:00 PM

The Globe on Raising Tar Sands Royalties

If Albertans want it all, oil sands must pay
October 2, 2007

Listening to the great Alberta royalty debate is like watching the Yankees play the Red Sox: It's hard to know which overprivileged group to root against. Should you boo the oil sands CEOs, who pay too little? Or jeer the provincial politicians, who spend too much?

Shut up about the deckchairs!

In his latest entry, Jonathan Dawson stresses on the need for a
collective 'peak moment'
by Jonathan Dawson
New Statesman (September 28 2007)

One of the ports of call during the last two weeks that I have been away
was the sixth international conference of ASPO (the Association for the
Study of Peak Oil) in Cork. This is the body, founded by former oil
geologist Dr Colin Campbell, which more than any other has brought to
public consciousness the imminent peaking in the availability of cheap
fossil fuels.

‘Fun’ was hardly the word for it, but it was good to be in the company

"Sovereignty tussles over Arctic territory threaten to impede oil and gas exploration"

[also called: How I learned to wave the flag? Maybe not...]

Polar politics
Sovereignty tussles over Arctic territory threaten to impede oil and gas exploration

Andrea W. Lorenz

This year marks the first International Polar Year since 1958. Far from being a vicarious adventure for wide-eyed audiences listening to crusty geologists talk about hair-raising encounters with polar bears, this event takes place amidst a growing number of potentially serious international disputes.

From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility

Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of
Possibility
by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
Houghton Mifflin, 344 pages, $25.00

What We Know About Climate Change
by Kerry Emanuel
MIT Press, 85 pages, $14.95

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
edited by Joseph F C DiMento and Pamela Doughman
MIT Press, 217 pages, $19.95 paper

Note: Bill McKibben will be answering questions from readers about his
article "Can Anyone Stop It?" and the possibilities for action to stop

SPP Super Highway almost ready: US Senator

Copyright 2007 The Tulsa World
Tulsa World (Oklahoma) // September 29, 2007
Senator: NAFTA Superhighway is nearly a reality
RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer

State Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, said Friday that the so-called
"NAFTA Superhighway" is "close to reality" and is being built for
"transporting goods and people from Mexico and China."

Brogdon made the remarks during a news conference at Tulsa
International Airport for the Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free
Enterprise conference being held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at

Dollar drops faster than Oil Prices Rise; Record Prices only Skin Deep

Energy Roundup: Oil Prices Gain
Oil Prices Top $83, Sunny Day for Solar Shares, GE Building a Plant in Vietnam
September 28, 2007: 01:09 PM EST

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - The following is a summary of top stories in the energy sector at midday Friday.

Oil Heads for Record Territory Again

Oil futures climbed past $83 a barrel, as the steadily weakening dollar continued to draw buyers into commodity markets.

Long emergency or long march back to the cave?: America's New Religion, Part II

America's New Religion, Part II
Dubai, UAE
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Long emergency or long march back to the cave? You decide,
Resurrection the mainline of American industrial power,
Tarantulas and the Gila monsters in Las Vegas and more...
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Joel Bowman, reporting from the sweltering Middle East...

Yesterday we brought you an essay by James Howard Kunstler. Mr. Kunstler is the author of the book, "The Long Emergency," in which he predicted, as Eric pointed out yesterday, "the end of the privileged, energy-dependent American lifestyle."