Ideas

Below find some challenge/insight pieces that encourage reflection on energy issues.

Developing Canada's Oil Sands: The Resource - The Responsibility - Responsibly
       - R W (Bob) Taylor
Western Canada and Atlantic Canada have been endowed with an abundance of hydrocarbon resources. The development of these resources as a contribution to global energy supply is a significant responsibility. Part of that responsibility is the responsible way in which those resources are developed, processed and delivered to market... read the full PDF

What Maslow Might Tell Canada's Energy Ministers
       - R W (Bob) Taylor
There is an irrefutable historic link between the use of energy and the growth in economies worldwide and the resultant improvement in social wellbeing. The first use of fire to keep warm through its early use to extract and refine metals moved us from the Neolithic age through into the Bronze and Iron ages, with the resultant economic growth and prosperity... read the full PDF

Fun with Numbers: China's Growing Energy Appetite
       - R W (Bob) Taylor
What are the implications for energy consumption WHEN the immense Chinese population achieves economic output per capita equivalent to 20% of that of the developed nations in 2002?
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