Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Benzene, Colorado Department of Health, denver, EPA, leak, pipeline, Platte River, rupture, Sand Creek, scoundrels, spill, Suncor
What's in black ooze near Colorado river? Benzene and a mystery – latimes.com.
The short article passes over some choice tidbits, the fact that the health dept. knew about this for a month and did nothing until a fisherman wrote about the spill on his blog, that the dudes at the nearby water treatment plant had to wear respirators due to mystery fumes for a week but nobody thought to trace the source, etc.
Seasonally Adjusted Sales Rate on the rise, comes in above consensus at 13.6.
Chart from Calculate Risk.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, cherry creek path, denver, MUP
The streets were a mess but the path was plowed. Two big thumbs up.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bicycling, cycling, efficiency, energy, kilocalories, mpg, transportation
Murphy gives about the same figures I came up with for Cyclist’s Manifesto. —-> 1000 mpg for cycling.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, Natural gas, pipelines, Turkmenistan
Asia Times Online :: Turkmenistan to boost gas exports to China.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, CNOOC, G, GOM, Gulf of Mexico, Nexen
“Nexen, CNOOC Team Up in GOM JV,” Rigzone, November 30, 2011.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: EPA, leak, pipeline, Platte River, Sand Creek, spill, Suncor, toxic waste, water treatment
Update for pipeline haters: This is apparently a ruptured underground pipeline, and a PR disaster.
Sludge in the N. Platte at Sand Creek confluence ignored. State Health Dept. records tell the story.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: costs of production, frac, France, hydraulic fracturing, production, shale gas, shale oil, tracking
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bikes, Camagnolo, Nishiki, Nishiki Professional
Tall Nishiki, about 30 yrs old. Ready for action on the mean streets.
Correction: This is a Competition model… put the wrong page of the catalog up there.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: accident, bicycle, collision, pedestrian, safety
Tom Vanderbilt
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken, Bakken Shale, frac, fracking, North Dakota, production, Shale
“A Second Look at Oil Production in the Bakken,” by Heading Out, The Oil Drum, Nov. 27, 2011
The black line on the bottom represents oil price.
Not surprisingly, the predictions are coming back to earth already.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: FARS, fatalities, highway safety, traffic safety
A very cool and probably a useful tool, although the database (FARS), based on police reports, is incomplete. Shows pedestrian, vehicle occupant, cyclist or motorcyclist, w/ age.
…appears to be about 8.
David Murphy, The Energy Return on Investment Threshold. The Oil Drum, Nov. 25, 2011.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19403791
Colorado frac disclosure trumped by ‘trade secrets.’
by Tom Murphy
A Solar-Powered Car? | Do the Math.
..or as the British say, the “maths.”
Here’s the short version: Just get a bike.
PEOPLESLIBRARY.WORDPRESS.COM/2011/11/22/LIBRARY-PRESS-CONFERENCE/
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brent, Canada, James Hamilton, pipelines, shale oil, supply, tar sands, WTI
Econbrowser: Implications of the recent rise in oil prices.
The discrepancy between Brent and WTI resulted from the increase in supply in N. America, from shale oil and Canadian tar sands.
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 