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	<title>Vancouver Peak Oil</title>
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	<description>VPOE is working with NGO’s, foundations, citizens' groups and the media to build awareness of the imminent peak oil crisis and its potential effects on the metro Vancouver area.  They are currently in the planning stages of a Vancouver Peak Oil Task Force and a Vancouver Food Security conference to be held in Spring 2008.</description>
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		<title>OILSANDS GREENWASHING</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/20/oilsands-greenwashing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Shell Oil and The Calgary Herald lead Oilsands Greenwashing campaign
From PR Watch
The UK Advertising Standards Authority ruled that a Shell ad describing Canada&#8217;s oilsands as &#8220;sustainable&#8221; was &#8220;misleading.&#8221; The advertising regulator noted the &#8220;considerable social and environmental impacts&#8221; of oilsands development, adding that Shell has not explained how it will manage &#8220;carbon emissions from its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Juneau&#8217;s Power Restored, Conservation Drops</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/19/with-juneaus-power-restored-conservation-drops/</link>
		<comments>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/19/with-juneaus-power-restored-conservation-drops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Ryan for NPR
8/17/08
Juneau, Alaska, was forced into radical electricity conservation earlier this year when electrical transmission lines were destroyed in an avalanche. Residents managed to cut their electrical consumption by more than 30 percent. Now that the repairs have been completed, usage has crept back up. Click here for audio link.
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		<title>Oil shale stuck between rock and wild place</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/19/oil-shale-stuck-between-rock-and-wild-place/</link>
		<comments>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/19/oil-shale-stuck-between-rock-and-wild-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Riley
The Denver Post
8/17/08
Original article
VPO note - this article is a perfect example of the colossal ignorance involved in most reporting on energy.  See in particular this one paragraph:
While critics charge that extracting oil shale may use as much energy as it produces, analysts point out that the key in the debate over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Food, Not Lawns</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/19/growing-food-not-lawns/</link>
		<comments>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/19/growing-food-not-lawns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for a 3:34 slideshow about Eileen Ailert&#8217;s campaign to kick-start urban agriculture.
Also:  click here to order a used copy of Heather Flores&#8217; book &#8220;Food Not Lawns&#8221;, a practical guide to home food growing.  And click here to check out VPO resources on how to start growing your own food.
It&#8217;s a way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Oil Giants Lose Influence, Supply Drops</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/19/as-oil-giants-lose-influence-supply-drops/</link>
		<comments>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/19/as-oil-giants-lose-influence-supply-drops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[August 19, 2008
By JAD MOUAWAD
NY Times
Original article
VPO Note - while this article perpetuates the misleading frame of peak oil &#8220;theorists&#8221; &#8212;  as if petroleum geologists, oil company CEO&#8217;s and investment bankers weren&#8217;t simply responding to hard data &#8212; it does report on former peak oil deniers admitting to &#8220;geopolitical peak oil&#8221; and &#8220;resource nationalism&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything is not peachy</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/18/everything-is-not-peachy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From households to nations, we need to get serious about food self-sufficiency
By THOMAS HOMER-DIXON AND SARAH WOLFE
From Monday&#8217;s Globe and Mail
August 18, 2008 at 8:28 AM EDT
Original article
Our baby was fussing for her next feeding, and our preschooler was turning somersaults on the couch as he negotiated for the next episode of Sesame Street. Meanwhile, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>90 stations in B.C., Alta., could run dry due to Petro-Can shutdown</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/17/90-stations-in-bc-alta-could-run-dry-due-to-petro-can-shutdown/</link>
		<comments>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/17/90-stations-in-bc-alta-could-run-dry-due-to-petro-can-shutdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Up to 90 gas stations in Alberta alone could be out of gas soon, following problems at a Petro-Canada oil refinery.
Alexandra Zabjek, Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, August 15, 2008
Original article
VPO thinknote - this is just a single mechanical problem at one refinery.  Notice how quickly existing supplies ran out.  What would happen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EcoVillage good for community, environment</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/17/ecovillage-good-for-community-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/17/ecovillage-good-for-community-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovative development will house 45 families, a farm, businesses
Brian Lewis, The Province
Published: Sunday, August 17, 2008
Original article
One of the Fraser Valley&#8217;s better kept secrets is the picturesque village of Yarrow, where even today it feels more appropriate to drive down its main street in nothing newer than a &#8216;56 Chevy.
However, just across from &#8220;Hank the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petropolitics at Heart of Russia-Georgia Clash</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/15/petropolitics-at-heart-of-russia-georgia-clash/</link>
		<comments>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/15/petropolitics-at-heart-of-russia-georgia-clash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vlsavage</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil-pipeline routes, market leverage make struggle a &#8216;battle for energy.

By David R. Francis
from the August 18, 2008 edition
The Christian Science Monitor
Original Article
In both geopolitical and economic terms, the United States appears a loser in the Russia-Georgia conflict.
If the pipeline crossing Georgia, bringing approximately a million barrels of Caspian oil a day to the West, remains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gateway coverup?  Gateway-Gate?</title>
		<link>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/15/gateway-coverup-gateway-gate/</link>
		<comments>http://vancouverpeakoil.org/2008/08/15/gateway-coverup-gateway-gate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonBC</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fraser River works as transport route
Environmental impact less when containers put on barges
Brian Lewis, The Province
Published: Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Original article
VPO note - the NDP under Glen Clark ended up wasting millions of BC taxpayer dollars in the 1990&#8217;s on the FastCat ferries, and took heat for it from the Liberals.  But now those [...]]]></description>
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