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So. This brings another catastrophic event facing humanity.
Did you know That the World is running out of oil?
Why 'peak oil' may soon pique your interest
World oil production peaked in 2005, says one expert, and that presents serious problems in the future
By
David R. Francis
In two years or so, world concern over crude oils supplies should be so great that a Google search on that subject probably will top that of global warming, predicts Matthew Simmons, chairman of Houston-based Simmons & Company International, an investment banking firm for the energy industry. Peak oil refers to the time when production of crude oil in the world (or in a country or in an oil field) reaches its peak and starts to slide. It doesn't mean the world has run out of oil – only that the supply of oil isn't rising to meet growing demand. That change could be reflected in even higher prices, if the demand for oil doesn't stall or fall.
http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/895.html
Overpopulation and peak oil: The perfect storm
Friday, January 18, 2008
By Jim LydeckerAmericans have recently become aware of converging crises that can end
life as we know it, though experts have been warning us for many years.
Oilcrash Crude Awakening
30 years to the end of oil
Again we find ourselves at a another cross road. We need to change.
We have No Choice
And if we don’t change, we will Crash
The following links are all Videos
The Scale Of the Peak Oil Catastrophe
Matt Simmons (Bloomberg): Peak Oil Now, Oil Perhaps to $300
Another Nail in the Coffin of the Case Against Peak Oil By Matthew R. Simmons PDF Download
Senior Oil Analyst Predicts 500 Dollar a Barrel oil.
Peak Oil - How Will You Ride the Slide?
Peak oil man Video
Documentary 49 minutes
offers a bleaker view of present global circumstances than many of us would dare consider. It deals with issues that are largely marginalized, if not ignored, in the discourse of mainstream media and politics.. What happens when the oil runs out?
Replacing fossil fuels:
Peak Oil,
Carrying Capacity and Overshoot:
(If you look at this site, the information will shock you It clearly shows where the human race is headed)
December 12, 2007 Canada's oil sands...you've heard about the economic benefits...but what about the environmental costs? Darrow MacIntyre presents the feature documentary "Crude Awakening".
December 12, 2007 (runs: 6:32) Part 2 of Darrow Macintyre's documentary "Crude Awakening".
David Hughes on Canada s Oil and Natural Gas (transcript)Media David Hughes on Canada's Oil and Natural Gas - updated with audio
I am Dave Hughes. I work for the Geological Survey of Canada. I have been there for 31 years. I've worked on energy for my entire career, and I've been concerned about the whole global supply issue, and Canadian and North American supply issues, for more than 10 years.
I'm a government scientist, but I'm also a public servant. I consider part of my role, basically, as looking at the security of the people that are paying my salary. I do consulting work with private sector energy companies only because of my expertise in Canadian energy resources. Some of those individuals have shared their forecasts of things like Canadian gas supply with me, which has caused me to be very concerned about the long-term energy security and sustainability for the Canadian people that pay my salary. So, that's where I'm coming at it from.
Excerpts from the book “Stupid to the last drop”
Hughes says that Canada's natural gas reserves could run out by 2014, if not earlier.
"Ottawa claims, that current production rates will last at until 2080,says Hughes. Hughes studies, showed that most of the 500 TCF of methane gas the government claimed was in the coal is not recoverable. In 2006, he came out with numbers that showed recoverable gas was between 11 TCF and 45 TCF. That was enough to replenish our reserves for maybe another eight years at most. Tar sands companies are also using increased amounts of natural gas. The Alberta government predicts that gas consumption in the oil sands will triple, by 2015. This is equivalent to about one ‘third of Canada's present annual domestic consumption. The actual amount of natural gas burnt daily at the oil sands is enough to heat more than three million homes. Hughes says that Alberta has basically been drilled out. This leaves the tar sands. Hughes's research also shows that the tar sands reserve estimates are overblown. To produce two barrels of oil, we need about one barrel equivalent of natural gas. Hughes says, to achieve production of four million barrels per day, the industry will need all the daily production of the Mackenzie Valley. This is Canada's last remaining untapped major gas field. The same is applies of water. Two to five barrels of water are required for every barrel of oil. The Athabasca River is already strained from the amount of water extracted by just three oil sands operations—Syncrude, Suncor and Shell. There are at least twenty more projects are either under construction or awaiting approval from the EUB Also an enormous amounts of light synthetic oil are required to dilute the heavy bitumen so it can flow through pipelines to the refineries in Edmonton and the United States. A lot of this will have to be brought in by pipeline as the sands are exploited. It's a crazy economic equation Hughes says: we are piping oil to the oil sands to dilute bitumen so we can pipe it to refineries. "It's like bringing coal to Newcastle," . "We'll need to import 40 per-cent of the global production [of synthetic oil dilutants].
The irony of sacrificing a premium energy source to make more low-grade fuel for export was not lost on Hughes, who quoted from a Canadian energy executive. "Using natural gas to produce oil from tar sands is like to turning gold into lead."
2007-10-09
Peak Natural Gas will become a major problem over the next decade. Canada's natural gas industry is in jeopardy. And with the U.S. being so dependent on Canadian gas, this puts our economy at risk from the resulting shortfalls. The North American natural gas market hinges on Canada, which exports half its gas production to the United States. In turn, the U.S. supplies Mexico with over 17% of its demand. And Canadian gas exports have grown immensely. According to the Canadian Gas Association, they increased over 306% in the last twenty years. You'd be surprised at many people haven't heard of Peak Natural Gas. The problem is that any slowdown in Canadian gas production would greatly affect us.
It Already Hit the Fan
Canadian reserves have been declining for decades. Their reserves of natural gas were estimated at 99.2 trillion cubic feet in 1985. That number fell to 56.3 trillion cubic feet in 2005. Canada has lost 43% of its proven reserves! The largest deposit of natural gas is in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB). This area accounts for about 98% of Canada's gas production. The Canadian Energy Board published a report assessing the WCSB five years ago. Production from then current connections was declining by 20% per year. The 20% decline rate is almost double the 13% decline rate reported in 1992. And the picture gets even worse for Canada. The EIA's 2006 International Energy Outlook also projected that natural gas demand in Canada's industrial and electric power sectors will more than double by 2030. Last year Canada consumed half of its production and exported the rest. Overall Canadian consumption is expected to grow an average of 1.9% annually until 2030. This means Canada will consume 85% of its production.
American Oil Depletion in CanadaCanadian oil wells supply a large percentage of American natural gas and oil imports. Satisfying America’s prodigious energy appetite depends on the continued availability of Canadian energy sources. About 25 percent of the crude oil and 80 percent of the natural gas imported into the United States come from our very accommodating neighbor to the north. More than half of the fuel pumped out of Canadian wells heads south to keep us Yankees warm and happily tooling about on our highways. What happens when Canada runs out of its oil and natural gas resources? What will this mean for the economies of both Canada and the United States? Alberta oil sands, fossil fuels flowing south, more coalDRAINING CANADA FIRST
Canada has been drilling as many wells as necessary to keep the high-maintenance American economy humming.
If this pedal-to-the-metal production policy were applied to a non-strategic product like, say, maple syrup, few people would care about the consequences. But there is nothing on the horizon to replace the nonrenewable high-density energy sources that Canada so generously sends our way.
This begs the question: how long can Canada go on behaving like America's most compliant energy colony?
Not very long, according to David Hughes, a petroleum geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada. Speaking before the World Peak Oil Conference held in Boston last week, Hughes painted a remarkably pessimistic picture of Canada's energy future, especially regarding natural gas.
Despite record drilling activity, natural gas extraction volumes have slipped from the peak set in 2002, and output per well is now declining at an annual rate of 28%. Put another way, energy companies must add 3,000 more wells in 2007 on top of the 15,000 now in production just to keep output from diminishing.
That would be a daunting challenge even if there were spare rigs and drilling crews standing by. As it now stands, there is no spare capacity of this sort anywhere in North America.
With only eight years of proven reserves left in Canada, Hughes suspects that natural gas output is about to fall off a cliff. Barring a miracle or two, Canada will soon experience challenges in providing for its own citizens, let alone producing surplus volumes bound for American furnaces.911 and Globe Oil Petroleum
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/11038/911-and-Globe-Oil-Petroleum.html
For those that think the oil is endless or there are "other"
large deposits around the world... try reading a bit. Here are a couple of
links to get you started:
Learn about amerikan Imperialism and its covert operations and you will
BEGIN to understand amerikan corruption.
High gas prices portend 'The Long Emergency'Updated Sat. Apr. 12 2008 7:20 AM ETCTV.ca News StaffJust about anyone who's filled up at the pumps in the past few days knows gas prices are at record highs.In most Canadian cities, retail gas prices topped $1.10 per litre last week. The increasingly high cost of filling up is no surprise considering that on Wednesday crude oil hit a trading record and topped the US$112 mark.While many drivers may be concerned about the short-term drain that gas prices are having on their wallets, author and activist James Howard Kunstler says the bigger problems associated with oil and gas are profound, long-range, and irreversible.Kunstler believes that what drivers are witnessing now is only a glimpse into what the future holds for society as a whole -- a future that will force communities around the world to restructure the way they're organized.Kunstler has outlined his vision of the future in his latest novel, "World Made by Hand," which draws on themes he's established in his non-fiction works such as "The Long Emergency." He believes the impending oil shortage will affect not only transportation, but also agriculture and trade."We're going to have to live a lot more locally. We will have to produce food a lot more locally. Agriculture will return to become much closer to the center of our economic life," he said.Peak Oil Hits the Third WorldHigh Oil Prices Bring Energy Shortages2007-08-10 Sometimes it takes a strong stomach to weather the ups and downs of the market, and this last two weeks was one of those times. Crude oil reached a new all-time high of $78.77, then promptly fell 8%, taking most of the energy complex down with it. Does this mean peak oil fears are overblown? Does it mean we're headed back to $60 oil? Not likely.
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