The “Atlantic Frontier” west of Shetland, the Falkland Island seas, the Alberta tar sands, the forests of Uganda …
Where will the current mindless search for oil in ever-diminishing quantities, recoverable at ever-increasing cost, undertaken with questionable technology and demanded by growth economics end, if not in tears?
John F Siebert
Nooitgedacht,
Maywick Road,
Bigton.
I see that the Scottish government is cutting funding to Shetland Islands Council by 5.1 per cent, much higher than the norm and where there…
READ FULL STORYTo the named supporters of the windfarm, I would ask, since we know that the mining of rare earth minerals in China is poisoning the
READ FULL STORYHas the Shetland Islands Council lost the plot? Why remove amenities without a bit of thought going into what is to happen when they are
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John Tulloch
Those in need of an antidote to recurrences of learned helplessness brought on by “Peak Oil” scaremongering may derive comfort from the following links to;
(a) an article by energy expert Lawrence Solomon in Canada’s Financial Post http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/03/30/lawrence-solomon-a-world-awash-in-oil/ and
(b) an article on human ingenuity from The Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/9179202/Peak-oil-doomsayers-ignore-human-ingenuity.html
Hugh Tait
Do you think that the Doom and Gloomers will believe this?