{"id":20541,"date":"2016-05-08T08:55:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20541"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:55:02","slug":"blowout-week-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20541","title":{"rendered":"Blowout Week 123"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\">Blowout Week 123<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/05\/06\/rtx2cvk0_custom-8a5273b39311b8db1e58f71f491e37a1a88eaef4-s900-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>A few careless campers who forgot to extinguish their campfire, or maybe a few kids playing with matches, or a cigarette, or an arsonist, a piece of glass, whatever, have in the last few days done more to bring the global oil market back into balance than OPEC and the rest of the world\u2019s producers put together:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The raging wildfire burning through vast areas in and around Fort McMurray has forced more nearby oilsands companies to shut down their operations and forced staff and output reductions at more far-flung facilities in northern Alberta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Analyst estimates on Thursday put the total amount of oil shut in from the fires at one million bpd, or roughly 40 per cent of total oilsands production. But the amount of production affected is now expected to exceed those numbers as the fire grew significantly into Friday and as additional companies have reduced production. \u201cWhen we\u2019re talking about a potential shutdown of up to a million barrels per day, that\u2019s very serious business for the global oil market if it persists,\u201d BMO Capital Markets chief economist Douglas Porter said Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We continue with the usual story mix, including how AGW contributed to the wildfires, industry responses to David Mackay\u2019s comments, Exxon\u2019s novel CCS technology, EU CO2 emissions rise, Indonesia likes thorium, UK short 87,600 nuclear technicians, Belgium hands out iodine pills, EU\u2019s percent renewable numbers not reliable, problems with perovskite PV panels, Saudi Arabia fires Oil Minister al-Naimi, moving day for Halley Base and the world\u2019s first certified climate refugees \u2013 from Louisiana.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>El Ni\u00f1o and ongoing climate change have both contributed to the devastating Alberta wildfires according to experts. The weather phenomenon has caused much drier conditions than normal, leading to a massive increase in the number of fires in the province.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blowout Week 123 A few careless campers who forgot to extinguish their campfire, or maybe a few kids playing with matches, or a cigarette, or an arsonist, a piece of glass, whatever, have in the last few days done more to bring the global oil market back into balance than OPEC and the rest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[103,141,252,13784,11842,7953,595,4523,11990,8607],"class_list":["post-20541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-el-nino","tag-energy-maters","tag-euan-mearns","tag-fort-mcmurray","tag-oil-production","tag-oil-sands","tag-roger-andrews","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20542,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20541\/revisions\/20542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}