Oil discoveries don’t kill peak oil theory
Are oil finds in the Gulf of Mexico making you optimistic about the world’s oil supply? Wake up — you’re dreaming. The Globe and Mail’s Barrie McKenna takes issue with those who dismiss peak oil theorists on the basis that new headline-capturing oil discoveries are an indication that we’re not running out of this black gold. “All these things are really just trees, obscuring the view of the horizon,” he writes. “Don’t let them trick you into thinking the landscape has fundamentally changed since mid-August.”
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
