international energy agency peak oil

Winnipeg Free Press - December 23, 2008

End of Oil Coming Faster Than We Think

The International Energy Agency's annual report, The World Energy Outlook 2008, admits for the first time that "although global oil production in total is not expected to peak before 2030, production of conventional oil... is projected to level off towards the end of the projection period." When The Guardian's environmental columnist, George Monbiot, pressed IEA director Fatih Birol on that opaque phrase, the actual date turned out to be 2020. The IEA's previous reports, which assured everyon...

Canada Law Articles in English - (September 01, 2004)

Energy Updates - July 2004

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

Edited by Paul Harricks Contents Innovative Suit Against Large American Power Companies For Carbon Dioxide Emissions Energy Demand Surges in Ontario Alberta Energy and ...... The claim does not seek monetary damages but asks for a court order requiring defendants, American Electric Power Company, the Southern Company, Tennessee Valley Authority, Xcel Energy Inc. and Cinergy Corporation, to cap and reduce ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (May 21, 2009)

Energy @ Gowlings - May 14, 2009

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

Edited by Paul Harricks Contents The Electricity Industry In Canada What Are Senior Energy Executives Thinking? Proposed Amendments to ...... Shore, Neil McCormick and Stephanie Sutherland The Long Arm of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 - Andrew Gray IESO Issues 18-Month Outlook - Neil McCormick BC Energy Plan Progress Report - Nancy Up Close ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (May 01, 2007)

Energy @ Gowlings – April 2007

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

... the 2007 federal budget contained little, for the energy sector. In it, the government noted that the ......5 billion Canada ecoTrust for Clean Air and Climate Change; Rebalancing the tax system to encourage investments by the oil sands and other sectors in clean and renewable ...

Canada Gazette, May 13, 2009

Income Tax Regulations (Capital Cost Allowance - 2007 Budget Measures) - Regulations Amending

Part II - Official regulations

... use in a system that converts biomass into bio-oil or biogas, be waste material, but does not ...... (biogaz) “eligible waste fuel” means bio-oil, digester gas, landfill gas, municipal waste, ...

Alternatives Journal - Vol. 35 Nbr. 3, August 2009

Fuel: writers, artists and thinkers envision a post-oil and post-coal future.

... If we have done our job right, this little volume will create opportunities for you to reinvent your own ideas about what our energy future might look like. --John Knechtel From ......echtel We will have to spend forty-five trillion dollars over forty years, by the International Energy Agency's estimate, to convert half of the ...

Winnipeg Free Press - February 25, 2009

Oil's Not Well in Canada

As citizens of a democracy, Canadians naturally expect their own government to put them first in any and all emergencies. "What are governments for if they're not going to do that?" [Gordon Laxer] wonders. "I think the Canadian government wants to focus on American energy security, not Canadian, because they see their interests not as protecting Canadians, (but) as being consonant with the corporate interest..." Prompted by former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed and the Calgary oil patch, prim...

Winnipeg Free Press - February 06, 2008

When Oil Crisis Hits, Fantasyland Will Become Nightmare

These sobering realities -- and more -- are laid out in a new report by the University of Alberta's Parkland Institute and Ottawa's Polaris Institute. Entitled Freezing In The Dark: Why Canada Needs Strategic Petroleum Reserves, its author is University of Alberta political economist Gordon Laxer, Parkland's founding director. Laxer finds the curtain of silence around Canada's lack of energy security "unbelievable. We are as dependent on Middle East oil as the Americans. Every other country i...

Canadian Foreign Policy - Vol. 13 Nbr. 2, July 2006

China's Global Quest for Energy Security

China has experienced pressing energy shortages in recent years, and Beijing has intensified its efforts to secure China's energy supply through both increased domestic production and external expansion. In this paper, I first analyze China's global quest for energy by looking at the correlation between China's economic growth and its energy security concerns. I then examine the implications of China's "go-out" strategy through two sets of case studies. I argue that China's global search for ...