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These articles, written by various authors, focus on how embedded oil culture is in our lives.
Well Beyond Kyoto
November 16, 2006 | Book Review by Patrick Brown
‘This book,’ writes Monbiot, ‘has an overtly political purpose. It aims to encourage people not only to change the way they live but also to encourage their governments to make such changes easier.’
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Supermarkets and Service Stations Competing for Grain
August 24, 2006 | Lester R. Brown
Cars, not people, will claim most of the increase in world grain consumption this year.
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Water or Oil? Troubling Trends
June 15, 2006 | Wendy R. Holm
The oil industry’s thirst for Canada’s water is old news...What is news is Pembina Institute’s careful documentation of the extent of current water withdrawals, and the implications for rising energy prices on future water demand.
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The Carbon Credit Myth
June 15, 2006 | Patrick Brown
It’s clear by now that there’s no way Canada can meet its Kyoto commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) production to 6% less than 1990 levels by 2012
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Paradox: peak oil is driving fossil fuel development
May 18, 2006 | Peter D. Carter
The draft scientific report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been leaked by the US government...
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Sharing, NAFTA Style
May 4, 2006 | Patrick Brown
Under NAFTA, the US has the right to share equally with Canadian users in any increase in Canadian oil production. The figure often quoted is that some 62% of Canadian oil production is exported to the US.
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Overcoming US Oil Addiction
April 20, 2006 | Dan Woynillowicz
‘America is addicted to oil,’ American President George Bush said in a recent State of the Union address.
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More Alaska Oil Could Pass Gulf Island Shores
December 15, 2005 | Patrick Brown
The continuing increase in the demand for gasoline in the United States has led to an oil industry push to develop potential oilfields under the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR).
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Too Valuable to Burn
September 8, 2005 | Peter Carter
I’m a real odd ball. I’m the only one I know who feels good when the price of gas goes up. I see it as good news for our health and the future of our families.
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Speculation and the Price of Oil
August 25, 2005 | Patrick Brown
Since the oil monopoly of the ‘seven sisters’ was broken in the seventies, the price of crude oil has been set by trading in futures on markets in New York, London, and Singapore. As I write this, the price of oil for September 2005 delivery has topped $66US a barrel (42 US gallons) and is continuing to rise.
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Will the Third World Show the Way with Renewables?
July 14, 2005 | Andrew Simms
For years the superpower politics of the Cold War blocked efforts to end global poverty. Today it is the hot war of energy economics and global warming tht present an impossible obstacle.
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The Gas Price 'Crisis'
July 1, 2004 | Peter D. Carter
The recent 25¢-per-litre increase in the price of gasoline resulted in a furor from Joe and Joanne Public....
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What's Gardening Got to Do with It?
March 11, 2004 | Derek Masselink
We used to live on the UBC Farm, which we often bragged with some irony is the last remaining farm in the city...
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Petrotyranny—The Present Day
December 18, 2003 | Peter D. Carter
Because of the history of the oil industry, ‘big oil’ today is all ‘Anglo-American.’ For example, Esso began life in 1888 as the Anglo-American Oil Company.
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Oil and Gas—A Mess of It in Canada
October 23, 2003 | Peter D. Carter
At first sight, Canadian policy on our oil and gas reserves is resulting in an increase in oil and gas exploration; in exports to the United States; in depletion of Canadian oil and gas reserves...
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Blood for Oil—A Long History
October 9, 2003 | Peter D. Carter
A little history may cast some light on the eagerness of the US and UK to invade Iraq earlier this year.
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Fossil Fuels: Feast or Famine?
September 25, 2003 | John Carlton
‘Thank heavens there is lots of oil.’ After all, we even put out forest fires with it...
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Backdrop to the Looming War
December 19, 2002 | Patrick Cummins
Another war is looming in the Middle East and Canada may be involved. Why is this happening now and what is driving the conflict?
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Subsidizing the Oil Economy
September 12, 2002 | Peter D. Carter
There is much hot-air being written about global warming and the Kyoto Protocol. Some fresh air is provided by Guy Dauncey in his book Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change...
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Caspian Basin Pipelines and World Oil Reserves
November 8, 2001 | Patrick Brown
Oil from the Caspian Basin is of strategic importance to future US, European, and Asian energy strategies. Transporting it to these markets depends on building pipelines to tidewater or to connect with existing pipeline systems...
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A War of Convenience
November 8, 2001 | Patrick Brown
Fundamentalist Islam threatens the current regimes of the mostly undemocratic governments of the Middle East and Central Asia. But these governments control some 20% of the oil consumed by the US...
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