Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alaska, Bakken, bell curve, fracking, freaking, Gold Rush, Hubbert's Peak, hydraulic fracturing, Klondike, Montana, Nome, North Dakota, North Slope, oil production, peak oil, Prudhoe Bay, shale oil, shale plays, Sutter's Mill, tight oil
This is an excellent article by Derik Andreoli, looking at the historical big picture of American extraction booms.
The Oil Drum | The Bakken Boom – A Modern-Day Gold Rush.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: crude plus condensate, Jeffrey Brown, oil production, peak oil, petroleum, production prediction, westtexas, Yergin
Chart by Jeffrey Brown (aka “westtexas”).
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: car life cycle, carbon balance, carbon dioxide, CO2, global warming, transportation
The European Cyclists’ Federation just put out a study on CO2 emissions and the possible savings that might come from additional cycling in the EU.
QUANTIFYING CYCLING’S CO2 SAVINGS (pdf)
[just one of several interesting graphics from this report]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, bike paths, Bobin, Calgary, commuting, infrastructure, MUP, planning, tacos, urban planning
Tom Babin, “Path popularity creating planning problem,” Calgary Herald, Dec. 10, 2011.