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The Sands of Grime Waterways downstream from oil sands are full o' toxins, says study		09 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 1:46 PM on 09 Nov 2007 Fish, water, and sediment downstream from the gigantic oil sands projects in Alberta are chock-full of carcinogens and other toxins, says a new study. While the research does not make a direct link between the oil sands, the toxins, and presumed health consequences, the largely Native residents of downstream community Fort Chipewyan have long suspected that they experience high ...
Topics: Alberta, energy, environmental justice, health, news, oil, oil sands, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

As a matter of fact you can't take your eyes off these people Oil companies target the fragile Arctic continental shelf for oil drilling	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
You're probably against drilling in the Alaskan Refuge, but what you really ought to be worried about is offshore drilling on Alaska's continental shelf, which isn't protected by law or by close attention from environmentalists -- and where the likelihood and impact of accidents are far worse. Read Peter Matthiessen's definitive piece in The Nation: When one considers the more than four thousand spills -- over one a day -- recorded by the oil industry in its land ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Gnarly Sheen Ship crashes in San Francisco Bay, leaks 58,000 gallons of oil		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:46 PM on 08 Nov 2007 A container ship larger than the Titanic collided with San Francisco's Bay Bridge on Wednesday, tearing a 160-foot gash in its hull and spilling at least 58,000 gallons of oil. The leak nauseated some bystanders, closed down beaches and fishing, and could threaten the health of seals, birds, and other wildlife. The spilled substance, known as bunker oil, "tends to be rather heavy, a ...
Topics: California, news, oil, San Francisco, water pollution (all these topics)

Curses, oiled again! High oil prices reshape the geopolitical landscape	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Check out Mark Landler on how rising oil prices are changing the geopolitical landscape. Here's the nut: The prospect of triple-digit oil prices has redrawn the economic and political map of the world, challenging some old notions of power. Oil-rich nations are enjoying historic gains and opportunities, while major importers -- including China and India, home to a third of the world's population -- confront rising economic and social costs. Hey, I can think of a ...
Topics: energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

Lurching along on $100/barrel oil Why we're not conserving like it's 1980	Tom Philpott	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill
On Tuesday, the price of oil set yet another all-time nominal high, leaping above $97/barrel. More importantly, it has just about reached its all-time inflation-adjusted high, reached amid the turmoil of the Iran hostage situation way back in 1980, the Associated Press reports: Crude prices are within the range of inflation-adjusted highs set in early 1980. Depending on the how the adjustment is calculated, $38 a barrel then would be worth $96 to $103 or more today. ...
Topics: energy, fuel efficiency, oil (all these topics)

Barreling Ahead Energy demand, greenhouse-gas emissions expected to soar, says report		07 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 8:36 AM on 07 Nov 2007 The International Energy Agency has released its annual World Energy Outlook, and it's fair to say that the outlook is, um, not good. World energy demand is projected to surge by 55 percent by 2030, with China and India accounting for nearly half of that increase and China overtaking the U.S. as the globe's primary energy glutton. Think $100-a-barrel oil is spendy? That's nothi ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oil (all these topics)

The Zen parable of peak oil awareness Disturbing news is more likely to be ignored	JMG	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill
An interesting post on the phenomenon encountered by peak oil 'doomers' in trying to explain their dour views to those that are unaware: But if the purpose of the peak oil movement is to spread awareness and ultimately spur action, then telling uninformed people news which radically challenges their worldview may cause them simply to tune us out. In this regard, the worse the news is, the less likely people are to want to hear what we have to say or to believe it if they do l ...
Topics: oil, energy (all these topics)

Incorrect predictions Do the experts know anything about oil prices?	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Finally, after a four-month stretch in which oil prices rose from under $70 to over $95, oil industry analysts seem to have caught on that prices are rising. From Bloomberg news (emphasis added): Twenty-one of 35 analysts surveyed, or 60 percent, said oil prices will rise through Nov. 9 ... Respondents [had] predicted price drops in the previous 16 weeks. That's right, for each of the preceding 16 weeks, the consensus of oil industry experts was that ...
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

'Mideast Oil Forever?': Part III Abandoning the solution	Joseph Romm	04 Nov 2007	Gristmill
After the introduction and an explanation of 'The Coming Oil Crisis,' the next part of 'MidEast Oil Forever?' (subs. req'd) begins the discussion of the technology-based solution -- and how the Congress is working to block it. Yes, long before Shellenberger & Nordhaus claim to have pioneered the positive technology message that everyone else supposedly never tried, many of us were waging a public death-match (without their help) to save those technologies -- espe ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, fuel efficiency, hydrogen, oil (all these topics)

'Mideast Oil Forever?': Part II The coming oil crisis	Joseph Romm	03 Nov 2007	Gristmill
After the introduction, the next part of 'Mideast Oil Forever?' (subs. req'd) predicted in 1996 that we would have an oil crisis in ten years, and that we would be in a weak position to respond if Congress succeeded in gutting our clean energy programs. That may seem obvious now, but oil prices were low in the mid-1990s -- in the previous three years, oil prices had averaged about $16 a barrel -- and only a few oil/security analysts (whom we cite) were raising alarm ...
Topics: climate, energy, oil (all these topics)

'MidEast Oil Forever?': Part I Drifting toward disaster	Joseph Romm	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Eleven years ago, I wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly with various predictions and warnings on oil and energy technology and climate. Since those subjects remain hot today -- concern over oil prices and peak oil is at a three-decade-high, and Shellenberger and Nordhaus have reignited the technology debate with a variety of historically inaccurate claims about the clean energy R&D message -- and since this is probably the best thing I wrote in the 1990s, I ...
Topics: climate, energy, oil, tech (all these topics)

Exx Appeal U.S. Supreme Court to hear appeal of Exxon Valdez damage award		30 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 6:07 AM on 30 Oct 2007 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed this week to hear ExxonMobil's appeal of the $2.5 billion in damages it was ordered to pay for the disastrous 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. An Alaskan jury in 1994 originally ordered the company to pay $5 billion in damages, but the amount was cut in half by an appeals court last December. Now the $39.5-billion-a-year company is hoping the Supremes will further ...
Topics: litigation, news, oil, United States (all these topics)

Here to stay Why I don't agree with James Kunstler about peak oil and the 'end of suburbia'	Joseph Romm	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The remarkably low fueling cost of the best current hybrids (like the Toyota Prius) and future plug-in hybrids are major reasons I don't worry as much about peak oil as some do. James Kunstler, for instance, argues in his 2005 book The Long Emergency (see Rolling Stone excerpt here) that after oil production peaks, suburbia 'will become untenable' and 'we will have to say farewell to easy motoring.' In Rolling Stone, Kunstler writes, 'Suburbia will come to be reg ...
Topics: cars, fuel efficiency, energy, oil, hybrids (all these topics)

Get used to high oil prices No supply-side energy solution will come to our rescue	Joseph Romm	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
No one is going to come to the rescue on the supply side -- and, of course, we remain stuck with an administration that doesn't believe in demand-reduction strategies. As the Wall Street Journal (subs. req'd) reported in "OPEC's Lever Loses Its Pull on Oil": Oil prices are hovering near historic highs, but consuming nations shouldn't expect quick relief from OPEC, the world's only source for big, quick supplies. For several reasons, the Organization ...
Topics: energy, oil (all these topics)

Good News for People Who Love Bad News Reports bring various doomy and gloomy predictions		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:52 PM on 22 Oct 2007 Indeed, the depressing reports come fast and furious. German-based Energy Watch Group says the world has already reached peak oil, and predicts that production will now fall by 7 percent a year. The Worldwatch Institute suggests that 21 cities that will have populations of 8 million or more by 2015 are highly vulnerable to havoc wreaked by rising seas. The comprehensive &qu ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, energy, news, oil, severe weather (all these topics)

The book to read on 'freedom from oil' Sandalow explains the ins and outs of oil dependency	Joseph Romm	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
For years, I have been looking for a good, readable book on the oil problem and its solution -- just as I'd been looking for a good book on clean technology. Well, I found the Clean Tech book in August, and now I've found the oil book. It is Freedom from Oil, by Brookings scholar and White House veteran David Sandalow. It is an unqualified success -- cleverly told as a series of policy memos from the cabinet of a near-future President, who begins the book by tellin ...
Topics: books, energy, international politics, oil, politics (all these topics)

What a Way to Go A review of a new doomer cult classic	JMG	13 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Some years ago I was alerted to the problem of peak oil by a friend from Bellingham, Wash., way up in the upper left corner of the continental U.S. A nuclear physicist and astronomer, the smartest guy I know, and no doubt someone who uses the serial comma, he had this to say about a new movie called What a Way to Go: Life at the end of empire:Before I committed the college to spend $500 for the viewing, I watched a copy a friend had purchased - all by myself. It was so powerful ...
Topics: energy, movies, oil (all these topics)

The tar sands Canada's version of liquid coal	Joseph Romm	11 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Canada has about as much recoverable oil in its tar sands as Saudi Arabia has conventional oil. They should leave most of it in the ground. Tar sands are pretty much the heavy gunk they sound like, and making liquid fuels from them requires huge amounts of energy for steam injection and refining. Canada is currently producing about one million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands, and that is projected to triple over the next two decades. The tar sands a ...
Topics: Canada, energy, oil, oil sands (all these topics)

Responsible development of fossil fuels? The energy department's strategic unconventional fuels fantasy	Joseph Romm	04 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The DOE's Strategic Unconventional Fuels Task Force has issued its surreal final report: Responsible development of America's oil shale, tar sands, heavy oil, coal, and oil resources amenable to recovery by carbon dioxide injection, by private industry, supported and encouraged by government actions to reduce uncertainties and stimulate investment, could supply all of the Department of Defense's domestic fuels demand by 2016, and supply upwards of 7 million barrel ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, oil, politics (all these topics)

Hint: Two words that both start with 'c' Why $100-per-barrel oil would be no big deal	Tom Philpott	01 Oct 2007	Gristmill
At current levels of around $80 per barrel, oil prices have leapt nearly eightfold since 1998. Many observers would have predicted economic disaster from such a leap, but the global economy just keeps chugging along. An interesting article in Saturday's Wall Street Journal reports that many analysts figure that $100/barrel oil is on the way -- and that the global economy will shrug that off, too. I was working in Mexico as a finance reporter in 1998-99, and wro ...
Topics: business, energy, oil (all these topics)

The War on Error Inspector general's report finds problems with royalty-collection program at Interior		26 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:57 AM on 26 Sep 2007 A new report by the U.S. Interior Department's inspector general points to a "profound failure" of the technology that the Minerals Management Service uses to monitor the roughly $10 billion in oil and gas royalty payments from energy companies each year. But it's not just the technology. Higher-ups in the agency apparently decided that even after cat ...
Topics: business, Department of Interior, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein and Amy Goodman A remarkable bit of radio on Democracy Now	Tom Philpott	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
I agree with Joseph Romm that Alan Greenspan is way overrated. Sure, he declares in his new book that "I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows -- the Iraq war is largely about oil." But he adds in his very next sentence, to paraphrase: And that's a good thing. Yes, he supported the war because he saw it as essential to maintaining a smooth flow of oil. Everything else, for him, was political window dressing. ...
Topics: climate, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Alan Greenspan is very overrated: Part I Greenspan on energy	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Greenspan is no polymath, to go by the discussions of energy and climate in his instant bestseller, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. During his nuclear power love-fest, he writes (p. 453): Nuclear power is not safe without a significant protective infrastructure. But then, neither is drinking water. Wow! That's an analogy I bet you never heard before. Greenspan is actually comparing drinking water infrastructure -- which is needed mainly to p ...
Topics: books, energy, oil (all these topics)

Knowing as little as possible: a candidate competition Thompson and Romney quibble over oil drilling in the Everglades	Brian Beutler	20 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Here's a fun game for campaign reporters: Ask Fred Thompson questions. The results are often hilarious: Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson seemed taken by surprise when asked Tuesday about oil drilling in the Everglades, apparently unaware it's been a major Florida issue. Before answering, he laughed at the question. 'Gosh, no one has told me that there's any major reserves in the Everglades, but maybe that's one of the things I need to learn whi ...
Topics: energy, Florida, Mitt Romney, national parks, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

O Canada, what are you doing? Tar sands are the enemy of the planet	Jon Rynn	14 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Our civilization's addiction to oil is being displayed in all its nefarious glory in the tar sands of Canada. According to Chris Nelder: What we have here is arguably the most environmentally destructive activity man has ever attempted, with a compliant government, insatiable demand, and an endless supply of capital turning it into 'a speeding car with a gas pedal and no brakes.' It sucks down critical and rapidly diminishing amounts of both natural gas and water, paying ...
Topics: Canada, energy, oil, oil sands (all these topics)

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