Category Archives: Tar Sands

The aftermath of the 2010 Michigan Tar Sands Oil Spill

Posted on April 27, 2013 by macca

From activist John Bolenbaugh via YouTube. This is Big Oil saving oil spill clean-up money in the first world. Think it would be different in Australia? Dream on…

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Geoengineering … a good idea?

Posted on November 25, 2012 by macca

In this video, the ABC’s Lateline takes a look at one Canadian entrepreneur’s efforts at Geoengineering, designed to increase the local fish harvests for the indigenous Haida villagers that funded the idea. There is little background on Russ George in … Continue reading →

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“A four-degree warmer world can and must be avoided” – President, World Bank

Posted on November 19, 2012 by macca

From ABC News | More… | Download the PDF report The World Bank has warned global temperatures could rise by four degrees Celsius this century without immediate action, with potentially devastating consequences for coastal cities and the poor. Issuing a … Continue reading →

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Kjell Aleklett and Charles Hall: Peak Oil Postponed?

Posted on November 10, 2012 by macca

A 3-part video series, from the Global Challenge Seminar in Stockholm, Sweden, featuring Kjell Aleklett, President of ASPO International and Professor of Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden, and Charles Hall, ESF Foundation Distinguished Professor at State University of New York … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Richard Heinberg on Magic Pudding Economics

Posted on October 16, 2012 by macca

Heinberg on Magic Pudding Economics Rod Taylor from the 2XX Fuzzy Logic Science Show interviews Richard Heinberg on peak oil, the end of growth, and powering down for the future. Thanks to Rod from 2XX for permission to use the … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: The 9 billion ton hamster

Posted on September 26, 2012 by macca

I’ve always thought of myself as a smart guy. There I was, at 30 years of age, producing award winning advertising, designed to manipulate people – through fear, envy and stupidity – into consuming more and more, exponentially. Pretty smart, … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Margaret Throsby interviews Richard Heinberg

Posted on September 19, 2012 by macca

Margaret interviews Richard Heinberg on the Midday program. From the ABC website: Richard Heinberg is a Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute in California and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. Since 2002 he … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Richard Heinberg interviewed on The Business

Posted on September 17, 2012 by macca

Ticky Fullerton, host of the ABC’s The Business program, talks to US author Richard Heinberg about Peak Oil, the limits to our current model of growth, and Richard’s new book “The End of Growth”. Richard is in Australia for the … Continue reading →

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Don’t Worry, Drive On: Fossil Fools & Fracking Lies

Posted on August 29, 2012 by macca

Richard Heinberg from the Post Carbon Institute narrates a snappy animation from Monstro Design on the controversy over peak oil, which conservative fossil fuel industry forces would have us believe was overcome by hydraulic fracturing and unconventional oil resources. Richard … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Michael T. Klare interviewed on Antiwar Radio

Posted on July 10, 2012 by macca

Michael T. Klare, professor and author, is interviewed on Antiwar Radio discussing his recent article “Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?”, the Bush and Obama administrations’ striking policy similarities on oil geopolitics, peak oil theory and the disappearance of … Continue reading →

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China in potential showdown over Nigeria’s Oil

Posted on June 17, 2012 by macca

As unconventional oil production (shale, tar sands) increases in the North American continent, oil imports from Nigeria into the USA have fallen. This situation has played into China’s hands, with one of its state-owned oil company now in talks with … Continue reading →

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