Renewable Industrialism
Posted on April 28, 2008 | Filed Under | Leave a Comment
… I agree. It seems that most people want to have their ecological cake and eat their industrial prosperity too. Modernity is inherently linked to a desire
Re: Tower of Solitude
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Sounds like ‘wealth envy’ David. Yes, sad situation, but I wouldn’t characterize his girlfriend as anything else. You don’t know her, and apparaently she is
Re: Editorial: Bring on the Right Biofuels
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~~~~~~~~EnergyResources Moderator Comment ~~~~~~~~ Regarding biomass fuels. According to Pimentel, if you all the agricultural land in the United States were
Re: Article from Yahoo Finance:Load Up the Pantry
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Not to minimize the longterm problems, but hysteria in the Wall Street Journal and NYTimes is disgusting. In case they hadn’t looked, spot prices on some
Life Without Food is Difficult
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Hello Everyone, To stories about food on this exceptionally beautiful day: “The New Economics of Hunger” http://tinyurl.com/4qjwq5 and the following article
Forties - Grangemouth: the failure of a complex tightly coupled system
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The sequence of events (covered here on The Oil Drum previously) that led to the Forties Pipeline closure on 27 April 2008 began in 2005 when BP, currently the UK’s largest company, sold Innovene, their Grangemouth refinery subsidiary to Ineos. Ineos is privately owned petrochemicals company that has grown from nothing since its formation in […]
Grangemouth strike: Anglo Disease in action?
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Extended from the European Tribune version, which was itself inspired by earlier coverage here on TOD. More relevant background can be found in these two articles from a few months ago: UK Energy security and The European Gas Market, both by Euan Mearns.
Now that the news that the Forties pipeline has to close down is […]
Grangemouth/Forties Update: Forties pipeline remains shut down (Thread 2)
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Make sure to check out our Grangemouth/Forties poll–use this thread as the comment thread for it.
Latest:
• Grangemouth oil refinery is shutdown.
• The Forties Pipeline is shutdown
• Over 60 North Sea oil and gas fields are shutdown.
• About 700,000 bpd oil production lost costing £40 million / day @ $110 per barrel
• About 70 million cubic […]
DrumBeat: April 27, 2008
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Oil strikes new record near $120 on supply fears
PERTH (Reuters) - Oil struck a record high at $119.93 a barrel on Monday, extending the previous session’s rally, as a strike closed a major British oil pipeline and as fresh violence in Nigeria reignited supply fears.
Simmering geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran […]
Who is MOST to blame for the closure of the Forties Pipeline?
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