Canadian Oil Sands: Our ticket to Sustainability

This is an update to my previous post on the CIBC’s predictions of oil production past 2005. The National Post/Canada.com has a similar report that actually contains quotes from Mr. Rubin. This was his major point: The six largest multinationals face declining production in the next two years So, since the Canadian oil patch is …

CIBC World Markets: Conventional Oil peaked in 2004

Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets is reported by the CBC as saying “conventional oil production around the world apparently peaked in 2004.” If anyone can find Jeff Rubins actual words, I’d greatly appreciate it… barring that, here’s what the CBC paraphrased. Rubin does expect a net gain in oil production in coming …

Bloggers Block… items of 2006

Call it fatigue.. call it New Years blaahhhgs.. call it laziness. The meat of the matter is that I just haven’t felt compelled to blog recently. Th news lately has been particularly uninspiring. The Ukraine and Russia… in a tiff over gas delivery at market prices… threatened to destabilize gas supplies for a large part …