Don Paul
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Chevron
San Ramon, California
Don Paul, 61, a former research geophysicist who manages Chevron's R&D partnerships, has teamed up with Los Alamos scientists to use ...READ»
A couple of weeks ago the usually conservative International Energy Agency predicted that world oil production would peak by 2020. Peak oil has moved in a short time from an obsession somewhere between the Warren Commission and the ...READ»
As the light, sweet crude oil that we rely on for many of our everyday activities becomes more scarce, companies have started to increasingly turn to a toxic alternative: fuel from Canada's Tar Sands. But now two major ...READ»
One of the reasons why Avatar has been such a success (besides the mind-numbingly beautiful scenery) is that it has a simple story. The David versus Goliath plot can--and has already been--applied to situations around the world by ...READ»
The next region to lose tourists to the Gulf oil disaster might be... Alberta, Canada--not because of any direct connection to what's going on in the Gulf states, but as the result of an "anti-tourism" campaign from Corporate Ethics ...READ»
BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico served as a wake-up call for many of us who never before paid attention to the destructive energy projects happening all around the world. But while Deepwater Horizon may have attracted the lion's share of media attention this past Spring and Summer, there are a number of other toxic projects still going on. We look at some of the worst.READ»
Oil-Coated Ruddy Duck in the San Francisco Bay, by wolfpix, on Flickr
Earlier this month, the world's chief energy economist told the UK Independent that global oil production was likely to peak in 10 years, with a "global energy ...READ»
Big Oil companies are inherently unsustainable. Petroleum is a limited and polluting resource, so any company that makes its money slinging gasoline probably shouldn't make it to the top of a list of green companies. Nevertheless, ...READ»
