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Peak Oil and the Future of Energy
Energy Crisis: What We Need to Know (2006)
David Hughes, of the Geological Survey of Canada, delivered a thought-provoking presentation about energy production and consumption in Canada and the world.
View David Hughes Presentation (PDF) – http://www.cnv.org/c//data/2/217/2006%2011%2026%20-%20David%20Hughes%20Presentation.pdf
Presented by Mayor Darrell Mussatto and the City of North Vancouver, in partnership with the GVRD and Capilano College, Mr. Hughes discussed how quickly the world’s remaining energy reserves are declining, steps that must be taken to ensure a sustainable energy future and what this means for the residents of the City of North Vancouver.
David Hughes is a geologist with more than 30 years experience studying the energy resources of Canada. Mr. Hughes’ analysis of global energy issues has been presented to industry and government officials across Canada and the United States.
“After hearing Mr. Hughes speak on this subject recently, I was so impacted by what he had to say, that I felt compelled to ensure that he share his captivating and sobering message with our community and our neighbours. David Hughes has information about the future of energy for all of us that we need to hear. It is a presentation that will spark much thought, concern, discussion and hopefully, action. As a municipality that is a leader in the area of environmental sustainability, the City of North Vancouver is a proud presenter of this important forum on November 26th.”
11 Comments on "Peak Oil and the Future of Energy"
SOS on Sun, 15th Apr 2012 2:55 pm
This is from 2006. That is pre fracking. Of course we have the volt now too so the demand curve should really take a dive! LOL
The US Geological Commision has identified the Baaken in North Dakota and other areas as the largest reserve they have ever examined. Under the Baaken is another vast formation even richer.
The only thing wrong with our energy supply is our government.
MrBill on Sun, 15th Apr 2012 4:54 pm
SOS, so why were oil prices much higher under the Bush/Cheney-Haliburton Administration? By your logic our gov must have been worse then.
Arthur on Sun, 15th Apr 2012 6:25 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_formation
464k barrel a day according to state industrial commission in september 2011.
Peanuts.
Arthur on Sun, 15th Apr 2012 6:32 pm
James Howard Kunstler on Bakken and other illusions:
http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/04/blowing-green-smoke.html
SOS on Sun, 15th Apr 2012 8:36 pm
None of the propaganda you have presented is true. Wikipedia is woefully uninformed and Kunstler is a blow hard from the far left.
The supply is there. The Bakken and Three Forks are the largest reserves the US Geological survey has ever studied. Last week Recoverable crude estimates for the Bakken in ND were increased to 24 billion barells. This number is increasing steadily. There is recoverable natural gas in commercial abundance in all of North Dakotas counties save one.
That is why you are seeing so much political might being thrown against this development by the anti oil groups. Regulations, hold ups, taxes and a general anti-energy stance from the US Govenrment is slowing production, raising costs and generally trying to “prove” the myth of peak oil.
Peak oil is just politics. Energy is abundent.
I urge you look at the DMR web site for the state of North Dakota. You may get some idea of the vast potential and the huge scope of activities now underway.
If the Keystone pipeline had been approved the activitiy would accelerate with demand and the shipping costs would drop from around $30/brl to well under $1. Unfortunately the BN RR and our presidents political future are more important than your familys energy budget.
Although there is a lot of acres under federal control in North Dakota there are a huge amounts of private and state controlled lands as well. Tribal lands are also being opened to production. These people are embracing the technologies that are opening this vast resource and enjoying the benefits.
Our government unfortunately for all us seems committed to a policy of high energy costs and no oil. That is costing all of us huge amounts of money.
The truth is North Dakota is only one vast energy play. The new technologies are opening fields all over the USA and in the world. Our delay in developing federal lands is going to cost us dearly in lost wealth and lost opportunity. There is no future in the politics of “peak oil”. A change in policy will allow the production of energy wealth to the benefit of us all.
Rick on Sun, 15th Apr 2012 8:39 pm
Sorry “SOS” I disagree.
Arthur on Sun, 15th Apr 2012 9:45 pm
SOS, I was a lefty when I was a student and had no money and moved slowly to the right as my hair became gray. Peakoil has absolutely nothing to do with left/right. An empty barrel is empty regardless in left-blocks like USSR and USA or in right entities like Nazi Germany.
You keep bringing up this number “24 billion barells”, without adressing my substantiated rebutal that this is equivalent to 300 days global consumption or 1200 days US consumption. And you ignore that you probably have to divide that by a factor of 2 or 3 because of EROI issues.
As the Dutch saying goes, you are making yourself happy with a dead sparrow.
MrEnergyCzar on Sun, 15th Apr 2012 11:58 pm
The average N.D. well pumps only 82 barrels per day. Those wells peak very fast so they’ll have to keep adding thousands more per year to stand still in production…
MrEnergyCzar
BillT on Mon, 16th Apr 2012 1:17 am
Some will learn the hard way that denying something because you don’t want it to be true is just lying to yourself. All the propaganda washing over the sheeple is just ‘make happy’ to keep them in line for one more pseudo election to re-elect Obama so that he can flood the country with Executive Orders and finish what Bush Jr. started.
Yes, there are billions of barrels of some form of petroleum still in the ground in the Us. And when the pumps shut down forever, there will still be billions of barrels in the ground. EROEI and the economy is going to shut down the pumps, not the lack of oil.
Think about that, SOS. You would be stupid to believe that when it takes 2 barrels of oil equivalent energy to get 2 barrels of oil to the refinery, they will continue to pump for your use. They may pump for necessities like pharmaceuticals or for a few other needs, but not for fuels or plastics or any other common use.
If you are under 50, you WILL see the end of petroleum and natural gas use by civilians. Wait and see.
kervennic on Mon, 16th Apr 2012 2:02 am
I think SOS is right. Peak oil is advocated by a lot of hardcore leftist, including me. Actually, we are often not even leftist (to be left, you have to believe in the official poltical game) but anarchists (we dismiss it as irrelevant because it is only mass entertainement and a non participative show).
We do not like this civilisation and think it is turning into an ecological error on the verge of a brutal collapse.
The problem is not how much oil there is but what we have been doing with this oil.
We have been damaging the earth so badly that we in fact created a nasty trap. The only way we can survive in such an impoverished ecosystem is by the heavy use of oil to feed, dress and heat ourselves.
But the more we continue on this track the more we destroy what will be the only thing left to those who will stay after oil. Already with heavy use of oil and attached technical developement we are failing to increase agricultural yield and have decrease efficiency (more pesticide used and more fertilizer, because ecosystem and soiled are ruined)
After oil, we will stay without many natural resources, in a world that has never been so poor in term of wood supply, game, fish, pristine productive land.
We have also spoiled all the concentrated mineral ore and only left crap with less then tenth of percent concentration, necessitating huge processing and large pollution.
This is why we hope that peak oil and oil end will come as fast as possible.
But may be it won’t come fast enough.
Then prepare yourself for the harshest world in human history and a miserable death. All the nasty war will look like pussy games, including the infamous nazi world war. Because 99 % of us will have to die in a few years.
We will be butchered and eaten raw by our youngsters who will run faster and do not need glasses to shoot accurately. Young people need protein and Protein they will get, among the useless over 40 people, like it is recorded in so many historical harsh times.
And that will be a fair ending for a generation of schizophrenic dumb ass who can only press buttons and are just unable to deal with their lives by other means than jokes and cynicism. Because they have no life other than consumption.
Our lives are pathetic shows and will end like pathetic shows.
Jon on Tue, 17th Apr 2012 10:57 am
@kervennnic: ever thought of, say, lightening up a bit?