Salon.com > World Energy Outlook http://www.salon.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The World Energy Report’s scariest findings http://www.salon.com/2012/11/27/the_world_energy_reports_scariest_findings/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/27/the_world_energy_reports_scariest_findings/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13108190 Rarely does the release of a data-driven report on energy trends trigger front-page headlines around the world.  That, however, is exactly what happened on November 12th when the prestigious Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) released this year’s edition of its World Energy Outlook.  In the process, just about everyone missed its real news, which should have set off alarm bells across the planet.

Claiming that advances in drilling technology were producing an upsurge in North American energy output, World Energy Outlook predicted that the United States would overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the planet’s leading oil producer by 2020.  “North America is at the forefront of a sweeping transformation in oil and gas production that will affect all regions of the world,” declared IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven in a widely quoted statement.

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