Preparing to drill in Arctic waters - Oct 23
- New York Times: The Arctic and the Lessons of the Gulf - Sen. Murkowski: U.S. Must be a Leader in Offshore Oil Production - Putin’s Russia will lead a ‘new era of Arctic industrialisation’read more
View ArticleClimate & environment - Nov 17
- Investment firm to encourage Arctic drilling - Climate change: there is no plan B - Battle to Save an Unsung Fish Critically Important to Ocean's Ecosystem (menhaden) - Obama Re-election Strategy Is...
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Peak oil gets pepper sprayed
Big Oil's campaign for energy complacency is picking up steam. They say tar sands and fracking are bringing a new era of plenty. But whatever happened to peak oil?read more
View ArticleEnergy - Dec 4
- Keystone XL Isn't Dead Yet - Gas exports soar, keeping U.S. price at pump high - Cairn’s $600 Million Greenland Oil Campaign Ends in Failure - A Shadow Climate Regimeread more
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Deepwater Horizon: Lessons from Petroleum Engineering and the Roman Empire
Why did the Deepwater Horizon blow up last year, kill 11 workers, and cause the massive oil eruption into the Gulf of Mexico? You're likely to get different answers if you talk separately to a...
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ODAC Newsletter - Apr 13
The IEA poured oil on troubled waters, so to speak, in its April Oil Market Report this week, suggesting a possible “turning of the tide for market fundamentals”. The agency said supply is ahead of...
View ArticleEnergy - May 10
- Thomas Homer-Dixon: Exploring the climate “mindscape” (oil supplies and energy junk) - Government influence is negative for energy fuel policy - The German Switch from Nuclear to Renewables -...
View ArticleProfiteers of Climate Change in the Arctic
Seventy percent of the Arctic’s natural gas reserves are thought to be on Russian territory. It’s no wonder then that Russia is particularly active in the Arctic at the moment. Last year a deal was...
View ArticleThe peak oil crisis: oil & the arctic meltdown
Last week brought the news that this summer the Arctic icecap shrank to an all-time low of roughly half the size it was in 1980. While this is the lowest ever seen since satellite monitoring began 33...
View ArticleThe new “Golden Age of Oil” that wasn’t
Last winter, fossil-fuel enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs, and free this country from its...
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