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[MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble] News From TreeHugger: Condoms to Stop Climate Change, Land Mines ...: According to a new study called The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), putting money into protecting wetlands, coral reefs, and forests could be the best financial move one could ever make.

[Gold Speculator] Gold & Silver Daily: Global Gold Hedge Book Heads Below 10 Million ...: Ted Butler and I are both waiting with fascination [and some fear] as to how the end game plays itself out. In the entire length and breadth of this ongoing bull market in precious metals, never has the spring been wound as tight as it is now.

[Wednesday-Night] Wednesday-Night - » Peak oil & the energy crisis: (NYT Op-Ed) Like many Malthusian beliefs, peak oil theory has been promoted by a motivated group of scientists and laymen who base their conclusions on poor analyses of data and misinterpretations of technical material. But because the news media and prominent figures like James Schlesinger, a former secretary of energy, and the oilman T.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: November 13, 2009: But the optimists say that, when crude oil is past peak, more NGL can be used as feedstock for petrochemicals, while the transportation sector is the 'lowhanging fruit' for oil, in the way that there is a lot of oil 'to win' with more economic cars/trucks, speed limitation, carpooling and (electric) bikes and scooters. To convert a fleet to one with a much better milage/gallon takes a lot of time, the others much less but each of them has its own practical problem.

[Energy Musings] Musings from the Oil Patch - November 10, 2009 | Energy Musings: The LNG picture is different in that this industry is gradually evolving into a global commodity business.  Many people feared a substantial increase in the flow of LNG into the U.S. this year, something that did not happen.  The reasons for the shortfall in LNG volumes relative to expectations are that events such as another earthquake in Japan that shut down a nuclear power plant adding to gas demand and higher prices for LNG offered in Europe diverted supplies destined for the U.S.  Additionally, the low North American gas prices made bringing LNG here less attractive.  There was also a delay in the timing of the start up of several LNG export facilities reducing the anticipated volumes.  But now that these facilities are up and running, or are about to start up, the global supply of LNG is expanding.  That should put pressure on LNG prices, but as we have written in the Musings, there are substantial LNG volumes that could be loss-leaders for the project owners since all the project’s economics are covered by the extraction of highly valuable natural gas liquids (NGLs), especially in a world of $80/barrel crude oil.  It is possible that significant volumes of LNG could come to the U.S. at very low gas prices and still reward the project’s owners while acting as a depressant on North American gas prices.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: November 9, 2009: Where modern Christians get it all wrong and go sorta stupid on the whole issue of the biblical texts and beliefs is they are rather ignorant of the whole of the bible so they wildly embrace what is more preached as regards a Physical Man such as Yeshua Ben Yosef...Jesus son of Joseph(and noting that there is NO letter J in Hebrew, nor Greek nor Latin nor in English until very late in the game. Yet we are given translations as per the priests and theologians which can easily lead one totally astray and give many ignorant and far fetched beliefs ,such as the inerrantcy of the BIBLE.

[Bear Market Investments] Drumbeat: November 9, 2009 | Bear Market Investments: will supply more crude to refiners in Asia as rising prices. “There won't be another wealth transfer to Ottawa under my watch, I can tell you that,” said Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, defiantly responding last week to the mere conclusion that meeting Canada's greenhouse-gas reduction targets might slightly slow down the province's record GDP growth over the next 10 years.

[HeatingOil.com » Blog] Energy Analyst: Peak Oil is a Foolish Fear | HeatingOil.com: He shrugs off geopolitical oil turmoil in places like Nigeria and the US’s deep-rooted dependence on Saudi oil by claiming that, “the solution, as ever, is for the industry to shift investment into new regions.” Makes it sound pretty simple.

[Business 360] Business 360: Get to grips with the issues affecting world ...: “The low-hanging fruit has already been taken,” says Vahan Zanoyan, Chief Executive Officer of First Energy Bank in Bahrain, “After 40 years of this process, it is not surprising that all of what is left are the tough ones.”

Googlejerseys: as some would have us believe, why is it that organizations such as the Federal government have steadfastly refused to draw up contingency plans to deal with the impacts of peak oil? There is no doubt that, as a society, we have dragged our feet way too long, and because it takes years to change many elements of our energy infrastructure, many of the desirable transitions to alternative energy cannot now be achieved.

[principiadialectica.co.uk] Principia Dialectica Magazine - » Blog Archive » Green Gründrisse ...: By the mid-20th Century individuals such the geologist King Hubbard investigated the lifetime of the world’s oil and natural gas resources and concluded that oil extraction had ”˜peaked’ and that the prospect was decline. His many findings included a simple and effective graph showing a bell-shaped curve that peaked in the 1970s and put the unsustainable level of oil extraction into perspective.

[Full Comment] David Akin: Now we know why Stephen Harper doesn't like you ...: Writing in the left-wing Toronto Star, Rick Westhead says: "For Harper, the visit may have to do less with new trade deals or warmed relations than with building ties to Indo-Canadian voters before the next election. So rather than strategizing on new bilateral investment with India's Ambani brothers, the prime minister will travel to the Golden Temple in Amritsar - the holiest shrine in the Sikh faith - and meet with Hindi film star Akshay Kumar, a torchbearer for the Vancouver Olympics."

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: November 7, 2009: NEW HAVEN, W.Va.””A 100-story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant””a total of 3.5 million tons a year. The facility just outside the town of New Haven boasts a single 65-meter-high boiler capable of generating enough steam to pump out 1,300 megawatts of electricity””enough to power nearly one million average American homes a month””continuously.

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