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Peak Oil News Wednesday September 20th 2006
2006 Boston World Oil Conference on Peak & Decline of World Oil ...
(Global Public Media) The Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA (ASPO-USA) and Boston University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (CEES) will co-sponsor the 2006 World Oil Conference, Time for Action: A Midnight Ride for Peak Oil, on the BU campus October 25-27, 2006. The Conference will bring energy experts from around the world to discuss the likely timing, impacts, and intelligent responses to the growing Peak Oil challenge.
Meeting 'peak-oil threat' will cost $20tn: US
(Gulf Times) The world needs to spend $1tn a year in alternative fuels, starting 20 years before the peak in conventional oil production, in order to mitigate fuel shortages, a US Energy Department study showed. Production peaks in Texas, the UK and Norway were examined as part of two studies for the department that advised on "crash course'' efforts to cope with an eventual shortage of gasoline and other liquid fuels.
A Sensible Alternative: Toward an International Energy Transition ...
(Raise the Hammer) The ideological trap of market-only mechanisms is one reason the Kyoto Treaty is likely unworkable. Kyoto's original goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the 1990 levels of its signatories by at latest 2012 while increasing renewable energy production and sustainable economic development are supposed to be achieved almost exclusively by a small number of gimmicks such as so-called 'carbon trading'.
Global warming and peak oil
(The Daily Reckoning) We tend to see urban pollution as a modern problem. But did you know that urban pollution was a serious problem for Western world cities as far back as 200 years ago? The greatest source of pollution for 19th-century cities was, believe it or not, the horse. Horses were ubiquitous back then.
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