The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) is an independent, UK-registered educational charity working to raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion problem.
ODAC Weekly Newsletter
27th August 2010 edition: "Cairn Energy announced this week that it had found evidence "indicative of an active hydrocarbon system" off Greenland. The news comes in the middle of a bidding round for oil and gas exploration licences there. The US Geological Survey estimated in 2008 that the region contains approximately 90 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, but producing the stuff would combine the extreme challenges of deepwater drilling, extreme cold, and ice. Any accident would be massively harder to deal with than Deepwater Horizon because of the country's remoteness."...
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Reports & Resources
Peak Oil - Sicherheitspolitische Implikationen knapper Ressourcen (Implications Of Resource Scarcity On [National] Security) - 1986Kb. For translated excerpts see
http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2010/09/02/leaked-study-peak-oil-warns-severe-global-energy-crisis/.
Zentrum fuer Transformation der Bundeswehr, Dezernat Zukunftsanalyse (Center for German Army Transformation, Group for “Future Studies”) - July 2010
Oil, health, and health care
Angela E Raffle, consultant in public health - British Medical Journal - August 2010
Oil sands development contributes elements toxic at low concentrations to the Athabasca River and its tributaries - 581Kb
Nick Mabey and John Mitchell, Chatham House - July 2010
Africa: up for grabs - The scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels - 1620Kb
Erin N. Kellya, David W. Schindlera,1, Peter V. Hodsonb, Jeffrey W. Shortc, Roseanna Radmanovicha, and Charlene C. Nielsena - University of Alberta - August 2010
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