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POPSCanada warns US over oil sands Per capita, Canadians must be the worst ecology destroyers on the planet. And yet they think of themselves, and are thought of as relative innocents. As a Canadian resident in the UK, I know.
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POPSClinton, Obama, McCain, Fail Energy Independence Test
“US risks trade dispute with Canada on fuel." Feb. 15 Financial Times Waxman and Davis apparently expect the military to expend the Herculean effort of tracing the source of the fuel it purchases and then to refuse North American oil from unconventional sources apparently in favor of oil from OPEC sources like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela . How’s that for energy independence and security? It gets worse if you’re one of those who believe that biofuels are the path to energy independence. The plain language of section 526 would also seem to ban the federal government from purchasing biofuels like ethanol, since their lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions are greater than that of conventional petroleum. “Turning native ecosystems into “farms” for biofuel crops causes major carbon emissions that worsen the global warming that biofuels are meant to mitigate,” researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Nature Conservancy reported in Science (Feb. 7).
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POPSEnergy Rules Risk Plunging US Into Trade Dispute With Canada The letter cited estimates that oil from tar sands produces 14 per cent to 40 per cent more greenhouse gas than conventional oil because of the energy consumed in extracting and refining it. The law was drafted in response to US air force plans to build its own "coal-to-liquids" fuel plants, the letter said. But lawyers warn that, though they apply equally to domestic and imported fuels, such policies could be seen as an unfair restraint on trade if they have a disproportionate impact on exporters of oil from tar sands. "The US could end up being accused of de facto discrimination based on where these petroleum deposits are found." The Pentagon said it would comply with federal guidelines but claimed the legislation did not rule out buying fuel from coal-to-liquids or tar sands. It could not say why it disagreed with Congress on this point. The US trade representative's office did not respond to a request for comment.
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POPSThe Biggest Global Warming Crime in History The oil rush is also scarring a wilderness landscape: millions of tonnes of plant life and top soil is scooped away in vast open-pit mines and millions of litres of water are diverted from rivers . The industry, which now includes all the major oil multinationals, boasts that it takes two tonnes of the raw sands to produce a single barrel of oil. It takes about 29kg of CO2 to produce a barrel of oil conventionally. That figure can be as much 125kg for tar sands oil. It also has the potential to kill off or damage the vast forest wilderness. Licenses have been issued by the Albertan government to extract 350 million cubic metres of water from the Athabasca River every year. But the water used in the extraction process is so contaminated that it cannot be returned to the eco-system and must instead be stored in vast "tailings ponds" and there is evidence of increased rates of cancer and multiple sclerosis in down-river communities.
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POPSPipeline war opinian I am researching to show clearly what is going on. Reports say Israel bombed Syria. This is my point! This area has natural resources, it is my opinion this is what they are fighting for!
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POPSThe End of 'Easy Oil' Buckle your seatbelt and fill up your gas tank. Our oil future is likely to be a bumpy ride toward cliff's edge.
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POPSTurning Waste Coal into Diesel It looks like the end result of this, diesel fuel, is slightly less polluting than low-sulphur diesel fuel created from petroleum, but it still produces roughly the same amount of carbon dioxide. The positive aspects are that it provides a way to take "waste coal", the stuff that has not enough energy content to be useful in existing coal-burning applications, and transforms it into a fuel that can be used in cars or power-generation plants instead of petroleum-based fuel. I suppose if it's cost-effective, it's one more way to reduce our consumption of foreign oil, but the CO2 generation still irks me. Oh, well. I'll get over it. :-)
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