Back when he was blogging, TJIC had a nice little animated gif with people running around yelling “Oh Noz.” I wish I had it for this chart and the accompanying text (via Kevin Drum) Many young adults have felt the impact of the recession and sluggish recovery in tangible ways. Fully half (49%) of those [...]
: Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST : The Corrib Gas controversy Feb 10th , 2012 by John Donovan EXTRACTS FROM ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST” BY LORNA SIGGINS FROM THE FOREWORD BY FINTAN O’TOOLE Though theoretically citizens in a liberal democracy , those who have stood in the way of the exploitation of the Corrib gas field by a consortium led by Shell found themselves with very little protection from their own government . Instead of seeking to negotiate a settlement on behalf of these citizens , Irish governments aligned themselves to an overwhelming extent with Shell , putting the resources of the state behind the acquisition of land and ,
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell Gannet Alpha platform in trouble again Feb 9th , 2012 by John Donovan By John Donovan It seems that Shell’s Gannet Alpha platform has had another close call . On Monday workers were evacuated and production shut down after natural gas began seeping out from under the platform . All of the ingredients for a disastrous explosion , of the kind that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico , which almost brought about the demise of BP and the explosion on Shell Brent Bravo resulting from Shell management Malcolm Brinded failing to take adequate action after a safety audit exposed a Touch F All” safety culture and falsification of safety . records
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell Gannet Alpha platform evacuated over gas leak Feb 9th , 2012 by John Donovan 9 February 2012 Nearly 50 workers had to be evacuated from a North Sea oil platform after natural gas began seeping out beneath it , it has . emerged Shell said staff were taken off the Gannet Alpha installation on Monday as a precaution . Production was shut . down The oil giant said the incident was not linked to last August’s leak of more than 200 tonnes of oil from a pipeline beneath the Gannet . Alpha The Health and Safety Executive is . investigating The Gannet Alpha oil platform is 113 miles 180km off . Aberdeen SOURCE ARTICLE Gas work at leak pipe
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Royal Dutch Shell Gets Comfortable in Papua New Guinea Feb 9th , 2012 by John Donovan FEBRUARY 9, 2012 By David Winning Royal Dutch Shell is getting serious in its pursuit of a piece of Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas . wealth Around six months after signing a strategic alliance with Papua New Guinea’s state oil company , the Anglo-Dutch oil major is setting up a representative office in the impoverished Southeast Asian . nation Shell’s strategic alliance with Petromin , signed Aug . 18, includes a joint study of major basins in Papua New Guinea with the potential to contain big oil and gas deposits . The study is due to be completed this
A drastic change in the way we produce and consume energy is necessary to contain the risk of a global environmental catastrophe. For its part, the EU has set targets for reduction of GHG emissions by up to 80-95% of 1990 levels by 2050 to keep global temperature increases below 2°C. One key policy for [...]
On the way to work today, which is normally only a 5-minute drive for me, there was a small fender-bender among a couple of cars. The cars did exactly what you are supposed to do: they pulled off the road into a nearby parking lot so they would not block traffic. The police could not [...]
Sen. Mitch McConnell claimed recently that the Keystone XL Pipeline “doesn’t require a penny of our taxpayer money all the president has to do is approve it.” But our research reveals many places that the pipeline project benefits from many taxpayer subsidies. The refineries that are linked to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline as...Continue reading 'Keystone XL benefits from taxpayer subsidies'.
The hype surrounding the US gas industry continues to grow as America moves ever closer to its cherished dream of energy independence. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that “the U.S. is the closest it has been in almost 20 years to achieving energy self-sufficiency, a goal the nation has been pursuing since the 1973 Arab oil embargo...Continue reading 'The Hidden Danger of the Gas Boom'.
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Debate continues on Big Oil’s big profits Feb 8th , 2012 by John Donovan February 7, 2012, 2:23 p.m The five so-called super major” oil companies Exxon Mobil Royal Dutch Shell ConocoPhillips Chevron and BP have just wrapped up their fourth quarter earnings reports , but not without inspiring disdain over how they made those billions in profits and over what they were doing with . them Under the title Big Oil’s Banner Year , 8221 the Washington-based Center for American Progress on Tuesday , for example , pointed out that the five firms made a fourth-quarter record 137 billion in profits while producing less oil than they did the previous .
Late last week the Albertan and Canadian federal governments announced a new monitoring programme for the controversial tar sands. The Canadian press are reporting this as the two governments listening to their critics and restoring badly needed credibility. The Ottawa Citizen reports this morning that it “is a positive step toward restoring Canadian credibility on...Continue reading 'Tar Sands Monitoring is “To Boost Reputation”'</a.
Each year the SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) hosts an Honorary Lecture Program, which is a companion program to their long-standing SEG Distinguished Lecture Program. The purpose of the program is to recognize an individual’s contributions to advancing geophysical science and technology. The program also helps to foster a sense of community amongst geophysicists by [...]
In a decision that will both dismay and worry environmental campaigners and communities facing fracking across Europe, the European commission has concluded that existing laws are adequate to cover the controversial drilling technique. A new report undertaken for the Commission by the Belgian law firm Philippe & Partners, argues that there is no need for...Continue reading <a href="http://priceofoil.org/2012/01/31/eu-fracking-laws-are-adequate-for-now/"'EU: Fracking Laws Are Adequate, For Now'.
Later today the Republican Senator John Hoeven will try to introduce legislation seeking to bypass President Barack Obama and empower Congress to approve the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Hoeven’s bill, that would seek to take control of the Keystone decision, looks like a political non-starter. To become law it would have to be approved...Continue reading 'TransCanada “Violating Laws” Over KXL Jobs Claim'.
You can SHARE this infographic on Facebook. What if you were in Vegas, and a friend told you there was a slot machine in the corner that was giving out $59 for every $1 that was put in? You’d think the machine was broken, and that it was rigged. What if an investment advisor told...Continue reading 'One Dollar In, Fifty-Nine Out'.
Grids are already developing offshore, and this development will continue even though at what pace and how they will develop is still uncertain. Indeed, there are different possible configurations for a future offshore grid: it can be a simple multiplication of standalone lines that provide each a single service (either connection of generation, or connection [...]
Could Fukushima put an end to the French exception? Everybody in France is now talking about, and arguing for or against, a prospective nuclear phase-out. Political Candidates running for the next presidency defend their affirmative or negative position on this issue with figures published in several recent studies assessing the investment costs of an eventual [...]
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:27 AM
Mish Shedlock
Great summary of Peak Oil and Overpopulation in relation to each other. Vandy
“In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would [...]