Tar sands

Oil sands, mutant fish, Buffet, and the New World Order

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Oil sands visit was not a shopping trip, says Buffett
Buffett, Gates, mutant fish frame oil sands debate
Mutated fish alarms delegates at northern Alberta water gathering
A New World Order?

archived August 24, 2008
	

Fossil fuels - August 19

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Oman turns to coal for power
Carbon sequestration frustration
Oil shale stuck between rock and wild place

archived August 19, 2008
	

United States & Canada - July 12

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Gulf Oil pres.: A bipartisan fix for the oil crisis
Canadians ponder cost of rush for dirty oil
The energy vision of Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders
House hearing on global warming effects on extreme weather
Cap & trade - misplaced confidence

archived July 12, 2008
	

United States & Canada - July 9

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens wants to supplant oil with wind
Is it safe now to admit Jimmy Carter was right?
Oilsands image fight targets U.S. politicians
Labour's plan for dealing with high energy prices
Ex-EPA aide tells of White House censorship
In energy, there are no easy answers

archived July 9, 2008
	

Energy policies - June 30

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Canada: Energy supplants environment as top concern
Oilsands vacation site tempts visitors with 'toxic lakes'
Korea: Oil prices prompt crisis response
Germany has world's biggest cut in energy use in 2007
Germany approves ambitious CO2 reduction measures

archived June 30, 2008
	

Q&A with Marcel Coutu of Syncrude

Peter McKenzie-Brown, Oilsands Review

All OPEC can now do is raise prices by cutting production. They cannot lower prices by increasing production because they don’t have the capacity. We are in a very pure free market situation, with prices being set by supply and demand. When I look at that dynamic, I have stopped worrying about the demand side. No matter how much the US goes into recession, for any period that is important to any of us, any decline in consumption there will be offset by increased demand elsewhere – in China and India, but also in developing countries that produce their own crude oil.

archived June 27, 2008
	

Dysfunction - June 26

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Canada's tar sand El Dorado... or is it?
'I'm waiting for riots in the streets' - Britain at war over rubbish
Conservative government destroys Atlanta like Gen. Sherman never could (water)

`Demographic winter' is just overheated rhetoric

archived June 26, 2008
	

Oil industry - May 4

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Abu Dhabi National Energy CEO: Consumption reform only way to curb oil price
The dangerous delusions of "energy independence"
Big Oil's widening profit gap
Dead ducks a boon for oil-sands opponents

archived May 4, 2008
	

Deep thought: energy - Apr 16

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Review: Energy in Nature and Society
Hansen's letter to governor Gibbons of Nevada (fossil fuels and climate)
EROEI series: Tar sands and shale oil

archived April 16, 2008
	

Oil execs asked to justify huge profits at Congressional hearing

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now

The executives of the five biggest oil companies were called to testify at a congressional hearing on Tuesday. Lawmakers took them to task for making enormous profits but investing next to nothing in renewable sources of energy. (Excerpts from testimony) Followed by commentary from analyst Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change International.

archived April 3, 2008