Energy Predicament

Notes Toward a Better Understanding of Six Intersecting Pieces of the Energy Puzzle: Climate Change, Peak Resources, Nuclear Proliferation, Food Security, Speculative Finance, and Geopolitics

December 9, 2010

Oil Sands

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/12/the_sands_of_canada_oil_supply.html

http://www.pembina.org/oil-sands
Posted by DCH at 12/09/2010

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Table of Contents

  • A. Introduction (3)
  • B. Defining the Problem (25)
  • C. Capital Markets (48)
  • D. Patterns of Dependence (12)
  • E. Climate Change (79)
  • E. Climate Skeptics (13)
  • F. Peak Oil (60)
  • G. Nuclear Power (27)
  • H. Food and Water (65)
  • I. Geopolitics (62)
  • J. Iran and Non-Proliferation (16)
  • K. Infrastructure (5)
  • L. The Oil Market (36)
  • M. Natural Gas (37)
  • N. Coal (21)
  • O. Tar Sands (13)
  • P. Wind and Solar (30)
  • R. Consumption and Efficiency (29)
  • S. Population (2)
  • T. Pandemics (5)

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      • The Efficiency Dilemma, or The Jevons Paradox
      • Windfall
      • Nuclear Power in Your Future
      • Coal In Your Future
      • Low Natural Gas Prices To Set Back Construction of...
      • The Case Against Nuclear Power
      • "Everything Ugly is in Vogue Again"
      • In Situ Mining of Oil Sands
      • Australian Coal for Asia
      • Solar: The Water Problem
      • Oil Prices and Inventories
      • Scramble for Coal Assets
      • IEA 2010
      • Debunking the Debunkers
      • Wind Power and Bird Slaughter
      • Sunspots and Sea Temperatures
      • Global Temperature Shifts
      • Marginal Cost of a Barrel of Oil
      • Will Shale Gas Rock the World?
      • Perverse Consequences of Greenhouse Gas Credits
      • Saudi-Japanese Oil Storage Deal
      • Wind Power and the Threat to Eagles
      • Iraqi Oil Production
      • Corroding Pipelines
      • Hazards of Coal Mining
      • Water and Energy
      • Oil Sands
      • Visions of Abundance
      • The Peak Oil Cycle: Crash and Burn
      • Clugston on Nonrenewable Natural Resource Scarcity
      • Heinberg: The New Normal, or The End of Growth
      • Uranium Mining in Western Colorado
      • China's Appetite for Coal
      • China's Nuclear Boom
      • Yergin: Oil: Still the One
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About Me

My name is David C. Hendrickson.

I teach international relations and American foreign policy at Colorado College.

This link will take you to my personal website at CC.

Preface

  • Point of Origin
  • My Basic Position
  • Charts, Graphs, and Tables
  • Maps

Sources

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    3 hours ago
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    The megabill energy ad wars take off
    19 hours ago
  • Foreign Policy: Energy
    Rubio Walks Diplomatic Tightrope in Southeast Asia
    19 hours ago
  • RealClearEnergy
    Why Trump Hit Canada With a 35% Tariff?
    1 day ago
  • Clusterfuck Nation
    Flux Rules
    1 day ago
  • Yale Environment 360
    In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month
    1 day ago
  • FT.com - Energy
    IEA forecasts slowest oil demand growth outside of pandemic since 2009
    1 day ago
  • RealClimate
    Melange à Trois
    3 days ago
  • Crude Oil Peak
    Australian Jet fuel imports are 50 per cent dependent on Middle East oil
    1 week ago
  • Richard Heinberg
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    Ending The War In Ukraine By Attacking Russian Railroads
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    10 Лучших Онлайн Казино
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    Why Iran's New President Won't Change His Country
    11 months ago
  • Environment and Natural Resources: Belfer Center
    Harvard Project Director Robert Stavins Moderates Climate Action Week Panel on “Strategies for Mitigating Global Methane Emissions”
    1 year ago
  • The Radio Ecoshock Show
    Управление на високото сексуално желание във връзката
    1 year ago
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    Japan Finally Got Inflation. Nobody Is Happy About It.
    1 year ago
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    Activating the Genocide Convention
    1 year ago
  • Matt Ridley: Rational Optimist
    Who really discovered DNA's structure? Five people.
    2 years ago
  • Grist: Environmental News
    California offers $100 million for tribes to buy back their land. It won’t go far.
    3 years ago
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    Video messages opposing Fukushima Daiichi radioactive wastewater dumping in the Pacific Ocean
    3 years ago
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    Consequences of Trump’s steel tariffs hurt two Pennsylvania mills
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    Cyclone, hurricane, typhoon: What's the difference?
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  • Energy Tribune
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    6 years ago
  • Desdemona Despair
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    6 years ago
  • Gregor.us
    Oil Fall
    6 years ago
  • NASA Earth Observatory
    Night Lights Show Slow Recovery from Maria
    6 years ago
  • Early Warning
    Global Carbon Sink Holding Up So Far
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  • The Economist: Electric Power Generation
    Clean energy and ecology: Offshore wind farms will change life in the sea
    7 years ago
  • Fuel Fix
    Harvey’s flooding blamed in major gasoline spill in Texas
    7 years ago
  • Council on Foreign Relations: Levi
    Russia’s Nuclear Diplomacy: How Washington Should Respond
    8 years ago
  • EIA's Energy in Brief
    Shale in the United States
    8 years ago
  • Resilience
    Cities in Transition
    8 years ago
  • Skeptics: The Resilient Earth
    T'aafhal Legacy Prices Reduced For Holiday
    8 years ago
  • Dot Earth
    After Nine Years and 2,810 Posts, a Dot Earth Farewell
    8 years ago
  • InsideClimate News
    Sump Pump Float
    9 years ago
  • Skeptics: Climate Skeptic
    Revisiting (Yet Again) Hansen’s 1998 Forecast on Global Warming to Congress
    9 years ago
  • Ecocentric » Bryan Walsh
    A Bright Year for Solar in the U.S.—But There Are Clouds on the Horizon
    11 years ago
  • The Oil Drum
    The Oil Drum writers: Where are they now?
    11 years ago
  • The Race for Iran
    Race for Iran Is Going to Tehran
    12 years ago
  • Carnegie Endowment: Energy & Climate
    Chinese Oil: An Evolving Strategy
    13 years ago
  • The Take | SmartPlanet
  • Climate Debate Daily
  • Energy Predicament
  • Energy Outlook

DISCLAIMER

DISCLAIMER
I ADMIT IT. SO WHAT?

Important Essays, Reports, Websites

  • 50 Doomiest Stories of 2013
  • 50 Doomiest Graphs of 2010
  • Basic Documents on Climate Change
  • Breakthrough Institute
  • CERA: Future of Global Oil Supply
  • Climate Policy Initiative Report
  • Colin Campbell Speech to House of Commons, 1999
  • Colorado College: State of the Rockies
  • Earth Policy Institute
  • Encyclopedia of Earth
  • Energy Information Administration
  • Energy Watch Group Oct 2007 report
  • Global Climate Change Impacts in U.S.
  • Global Footprint Network
  • Global Water Partnership
  • Grantham Center
  • Interactive: The Global Oil Diet
  • Journal of Energy Security
  • Matt Simmons on Peak Oil
  • Rocky Mountain Institute: Reinventing Fire
  • Spencer Weart: The Discovery of Global Warming
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon
  • World Bank: Consequences of Global Warming
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