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  Oil Shales, and the topic of Rust

  I believe that Canada has recently enacted legislation to crack down on the carbon emissions of oil sands.  I'm still looking for references to actual bills/documents, so if anyone has come across them and could post them, I would greatly appreciate it. I found only this:

  http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=714D9AAE-1& ...

  Another topic regarding oil is the phenomenal amount of steel that goes into its infrastructure - from the drilling to the gas tank.  Here is a link to a presentation that outlines how rusting infrastructure could kill the oil economy before the effects of limited supply does.  

  http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/files/OTC%202008.pdf

  The point being that even in spite of emerging drilling and extraction technologies, a vast network of infrastructure is decaying and make them almost irrelevant.On It's a 1980 flashback, as energy price spikes make oil shale economical once again posted 1 year, 4 months ago 6 Responses

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  CCS and Hansen

  amazingdrx:  

  Hansen realizes that it is important pursue CCS because, as he's written before, CO2 from Coal is 80% of the problem.  And yet there is no near term replacement for coal.  

  i believe solar thermal and wind will become successful in the US (and have invested in these companies), but we need CCS urgently.  

  CCS technology can also be transferred to India and China which are also on a path to build man more coal plants.  

  Check out the WESTCARB consortium and its members to see progress being made on this front.On Revkin interviews Hansen posted 1 year, 4 months ago 4 Responses