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The IEA Says Peak Oil Is Dead. That's Bad News for Climate Policy
TIME
No one-aside maybe from survivalists who'd stocked up on MREs and assault rifles-was really looking forward to a peak-oil world. Read this 2007 GQ piece by Benjamin Kunkel-while we're discussing topics from the mid-2000s-that imagines what a ...
Does U.S. oil boom mean lower prices at the pump?Marketplace.org
What Saudi Arabia Thinks About the US Oil BoomMotley Fool
US pumps up oil production as demand rises in developing worldWashington Times
National Post -The Daily Star -Yahoo!7 News
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Nelson Mail

Making choices early gives room to move
Nelson Mail
Climate change and peak oil concerns were early drivers of the Transition movement. Strictly defined, peak oil is when oil extraction rates top out and begin to decline. Debate continues as to whether we have already hit that point or exactly when we will.

Peak Oil No Longer Seems Likely, But That Causes Problems For Climate Policy
Huffington Post
That was a stupid article. Peak oil has already occurred. That is why they are going after scraps, like tar sands, now to keep the flow going. That is why they are pumping liquified CO2 into depleted oil fields to flush out the remaining oil. Like that ...

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Responding to Climate Change

The Peak Oil Crisis: Supply Shock - Falls Church News-Press
Falls Church News Press
A new phrase, "supply shock," entered the lexicon of the global oil business this week when the International Energy Agency reported that unexpectedly rapid growth in tight oil production from North Dakota and Texas is leading to profound changes in ...
Five reasons why an oil-free future is possibleResponding to Climate Change
US oil boom impacts OPEC demand growthThe Strategic Sourceror (blog)

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The Guardian

Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict
The Guardian
Syria's dash for gas has been spurred by its rapidly declining oil revenues, driven by the peak of its conventional oil production in 1996. Even before the war, the country's rate of oil production had plummeted by nearly half, from a peak of just ...

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Approaching 'peak oil'?
Aljazeera.com
The idea of 'peak oil' - or the point in time when maximum petroleum extraction has been reached - is something that has been around since the 1950s. These days though, the debate centres on whether oil has or has not yet reached its 'peak', given that ...

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'Peak Oil' Is Back, but This Time It's a Peak in Demand
Businessweek
Remember peak oil? It's the theory-current about a decade ago-that global oil production would soon top out, leading to an inexorable rise in prices. Reports and books painted a grim picture of the effects this would have on the global economy; as ...

Daily Beast

Peak Oil Still Isn't Real, You Guys
Daily Beast
The United States has double the amount of oil and three times the amount of natural gas than previously thought, stored deep under the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, according to new data the Obama administration released Tuesday.
The Climate Post: US Oil Reserves Higher Than Previously ThoughtHuffington Post

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Arab News

Natural Resource Scarcity Is a Real Thing
Slate Magazine (blog)
Something I've noticed lately is a huge surge in commentary, generally from conservatives, lauding the boom in "unconventional" oil finds as completely debunking the fashionable "peak oil" concerns of the mid-aughts. The boom in U.S. fossil fuel ...
US oil supplies reach new peak amid shale boomArab News
Oil Price Forecast For 2013-2014: Falling PricesSeeking Alpha

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PolicyMic

Peak Oil: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses the Looming Shale Gas Bubble
PolicyMic
Production in oil is probably leveling out close to 700,000 barrels a day. The wells there have a very steep decline. Will it get over a million barrels? That's very difficult to say, it's very questionable. We've certainly seen a production peak in ...

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