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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I worked on this blog intermittently from 2008 to 2015. I used some of the material in courses taught at Colorado College in the 2010s, especially "Smiling Through the Apocalypse." For seniors only, taken in their final block at CC, it had a lot of grim material. On the other hand, the students did a lot of smiling. Most of the RSS feeds are no longer working, but I leave them up as an historical curiosity. October 23, 2026

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      • "Everything Ugly is in Vogue Again"
      • In Situ Mining of Oil Sands
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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

Preface

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

Table of Contents

  • A. Introduction (3)
  • B. Defining the Problem (25)
  • C. Capital Markets (45)
  • 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 (35)
  • 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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