Tag: peak oil
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A different (from western) relationship to the land
“oil should not be taken out of the ground PERIOD.” -indigenous resistance in colombia–(in contrast w/the modern industrialized western world) a whole different relationship to the land
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The Bloody Flow Of Oil…
here are some of the facts we shared last week: In a rainforest area roughly three times the size of Manhattan, Chevron carved out 350 oil wells, and upon leaving the country in 1992, left behind some 1,000 open-air, unlined waste pits filled with crude and toxic sludge. Many of these pits leak into the water […]
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Peak Oil and Impacted Communities Across the Globe
Fall Educational – Peak Oil and Impacted Communities Across the Globe With co-presenters Eco-Pin@y Andrea Ibarra-Tacdol, and Aaron Lehmer from Bay Localize. October 26, 6:00-8:30 pm Asian Resource Center, 310 8th Street, Oakland, CA
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New Oil Frontier…
“People who think that peak oil will occur are just looking at conventional oil. You have to think beyond that. Think of all the other hydrocarbon resources, the oil sands in Cananda… Think of all the remote areas of the world that have not yet been explored….” David O’Reilly, Chevron CEO, 2006
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Collective Progress, Collective Evolution
“The thing that is hardest for us to do at the moment is to come up with a consensus about reality that is consistent with the way things are really going– to come up with a coherent picture of what’s happening to us and what we’re going to do about it — the noise in […]