 Pacific students screen 'Crude Awakening'
(The Hillsboro Argus: Tue, 27 Nov) FOREST GROVE - On Nov. 18, Pacific University's Students for Environmental Activism club and the group Washington County Peak Oil showed the film "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash" on the Pacific campus.
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 Commodity prices leap in October
(Investment Executive: Wed, 28 Nov) This year has turned out to be a favourable one for resource producers, with overall commodity prices up 17.1% year-over-year in October and 10.6% in the year-to-date.
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 Never enough gold jewelry
(Asia Times: Wed, 28 Nov) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph.co.uk reports that the US Academy of Sciences calculates that "some 26% of all the copper and 19% of all the zinc that ever existed in the earth's crust has already been lost to mankind, mostly wasted in milling or smelting or buried in landfills."
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 Oil output a question mark
(Tulsa World: Wed, 28 Nov) Employees of Nabors Industries Ltd. mark equipment on a drilling rig in the Orinoco Belt near San Diego de Cabrutitas, Venezuela. The country recently nationalized its oil fields.
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 Peak Oil Passnotes: Here's My Tupi's Worth
(Resource Investor: Fri, 23 Nov) One of the biggest finds in recent years has turned up off the coast of Brazil. It is a genuinely big field, but as a peak in world production approaches, it hardly matters.
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 Peak Oil II: Global Peak Oil Production Can Only Decline Now
(Small Town Papers News Service: Thu, 22 Nov) In the previous piece we saw that the history of oil exploration in the United States suggested that production rises steadily to a peak, at around 50 percent of total oil reserves. This peak also mar...
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(Yemen Observer: Tue, 27 Nov) It’s just straws in the wind so far. India’s Ministry of Culture announces that foreign tourists can no longer pay in dollars when visiting the Taj Mahal and other heritage sites; they have to pay in good, hard rupees.
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