Fossil fuel

ISSUES

83.6 millions barrels of oil are consumed daily (mb/d), an increase of 25% since 1990. According to the United Nations, oil consumption could reach 116 mb/d in 2030, 70% of it consumed by developing countries, 30% by China. According to experts, the peak of production was either reached in 2007 or will be reached in 5 to 25 years. The expected scarcity of black gold is reflected in its price hike, a barrel of oil reached the 100 dollar mark at the beginning of 2008. Gas consumption increased by 41% in 15 years and coal consumption by 92% compared to 1980. In 1996, China consumed its own production of hydrocarbons; in 2006, it imported 50% of its hydrocarbon consumption. As a result, in 200 years man will have burned a resource which took 400 million years to “come about.”
Producers and consumers
The Middle Eastern countries that are members of OPEC possess 81% of global oil reserves, and produce 43% of them. Saudi-Arab...

NEWS

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FRANCE - PARIS - A la veille d'un scrutin régional annoncé comme délicat pour son camp, Nicolas Sarkozy semble temporiser sur la...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - SAN FRANCISCO - Des chercheurs du géant informatique IBM et de l'université californienne de Stanford ont annoncé mardi...

LIECHTENSTEIN - LUXEMBOURG - Les exploitants qui ont des installations à proximité d'une zone polluée peuvent être présumés...

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DEBATES

Oil companies ‘should withdraw’ as Peru ‘faces its Tiananmen’

Survival Survival International

Survival International today called on all oil companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon to suspend operations as the country...

If you go down to the woods today…

Carbon conundrumsOffsets slot into the oil, coal and gas...

The coming decline of Oil

The oil prospect can be analyzed in several different ways....

FOCUS

Carbon compensation

Faute de réduire ses émissions, une solution consiste à les « compenser ». C’est-à-dire permettre une réduction d’ampleur similaire ailleurs. Planter des arbres – qui absorbent du carbone- pour compenser les...

VIDEOS

10/12/2009	A very interesting debate on Environmental Justice with Caroll Muffe,...	26/11/2009	Mr Coalman, Gazolian, et Mr Voltage sont les super méchants contre...
17/11/2009	Le photographe américain Edward Burtynsky a fait du pétrole le sujet de...	04/11/2009	L'exploitation des sables bitumineux au Canada dévaste la forêt boréale et...

GREEN TIPS

Transition towns

Several dozen towns in England and now in the United States, Australia and New Zealand have set up a...

INDICATORS

Carbon dioxide emissions
Total Primary Energy Supply
Renewable energy in the energy mix

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