Recoverable shale oil reserves in the USA

In 2013, the United States consumed a total of 6.89 billion barrels of petroleum products, an average of 18.89 million barrels per day.¹ This total includes about 0.32 billion barrels of biofuels.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6

USA imports 40%  of its petroleum.
Shale oil pumps around 3million barrels of oil a day ,using the fracking method of extraction

Earlier this year the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) also forecast a plateau in U.S. oil production after 2020.

The basis for these forecasts are estimates of shale oil reserves. A 2013 Energy Department report on technically recoverable shale oil—the amount that's recoverable without regard to cost—puts U.S. potential at 58 billion barrels. That's equivalent to a little more than eight years of U.S. consumption at the current rate of almost 19 million barrels a day.

The Energy Department's estimate of "proved reserves" of shale oil—those that can be recovered economically today—is only about ten billion barrels. That's about a sixth of technically recoverable reserves, and less than a year and a half's worth of current consumption. Proved reserves include all currently known U.S. oil shale resources-North Dakota Bakken, Texas Eagle Ford, Colorado and Nebraska Niobrara, Texas Barnett, and others.

In contrast, the proved reserves from just three Middle East nations—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates—total more than 460 billion barrels. That's 46 times U.S. shale oil reserves, and more than 12 times the total U.S. oil reserves.

Those estimates help explain why the IEA projects

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141219-fracking-oil-supply-price-reserves-profits-environment/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-17/oil-is-cheap-but-not-so-cheap-that-americans-won-t-profit-from-it.html

Biggest oil exporters wikipedia stats

                                                 Biggest oil consumers wikipedia stats

New Ocean Reserves in USA offshore territories

By broadening the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monumentfrom almost 87,000 square miles to more than 490,000 square miles, Obama has protected more acres of federal land and sea by executive power than any other president in at least 50 years and makes the area off-limits to commercial fishing.



http://wilderness.org/newly-expanded-pacific-ocean-monument-builds-bipartisan-legacy

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/proposed-expansion-of-a-marine-monument/1101/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-create-worlds-largest-protected-marine-reserve-in-pacific-ocean/2014/09/24/e2ecaab4-433e-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html

The importance of beavers to our wildlife and its biodiversity
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/beavers

USA Federal level Nature Conservation

Today, about 235 million acres of federal wildlands have been permanently protected as wilderness, parks, refuges or other protected areas. But that’s only a third of our public lands. And about 100 million acres of pristine wildlands are still at risk.

Wilderness areas are designated by Congress on federal public lands. The Wilderness Act established the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) to include all designated Wilderness areas. The wilderness system now includes nearly 110 million acres in 662 Wilderness areas.

The lands that can be designated as wilderness are:

National parks

Some of America’s most iconic national parks include Yellowstone, Acadia and Yosemite.

National forests

Our national forests — home to clean water sources and incredible recreation opportunities. Forty-one states contain national forest lands.

http://wilderness.org/article/what-wilderness

green-federal forests

yellow-federal land managament

pink-i think indian reservation (not sure)

orange-national parks

blue-defense land

http://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/honors_3900new%20policies.htm

USA to reduce its dependence on coal fired electricity generation
Coal is 39% (2013) of the US electricity generation

The EPA announcement on existing power plants came shortly after the Energy Information Administration projected that low natural gas prices and slower electricity demand would accelerate the pace of coal-fired electric plant retirements. The agency said a total of 60 gigawatts of capacity would retire by 2020, with the bulk of that coming by 2016. In 2012, there were 1,308 coal-fired generating units in the U.S., with 310 gigawatts of capacity, and in that year alone 10.2 gigawatts was retired.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/09/3598906/terrible-year-for-coal/

i have discovered something interesting while looking at the information on the deforestation of malaysias pristine forests by a Malaysian Chinese timber tycoon.

http://www.globalwitness.org/olympics/

on the other hand i have been arguing with this dis-info agent on youtube about palm oil and how its planted in deforested areas ,everytime when i say something about the impact on nature he turns to east vs west topic and how western imperialists conquered his country

but this guy doesn't just fight with me ,he fights with everybody on youtube that has something against palm oil in general , he doesnt bring the environmental topic into play but always talks about the political side of it and tries to blame the west about all its problems.

but from the look of it most of their problems are caused by Chinese Malaysian tycoons who have no care for the environment,the indigenous communities and their livelihoods.

i believe that this youtube troll is part of a disinfo army of cyber trolls that go on the internet and try to convert people into thinking positively about palm oil and feeling sorry for the poor malaysians and thinking how palm oil has benefited them .

so basically company's owned by Malaysians and Chinese are destroying the environment in malaysia and the indigineous communities that depend on it ,and here they are paying cyber trolls to spread propapaganda and disinformation about how its the europeans trying to destroy their country and make them poor.

typical counter intel pro , trying to shift the blame from themselves into a movement against a third party which basically doesnt have too much to do with the whole thing
except the fact that the rothschilds were one of the first to start the palm oil empire in malaya and then get scewed by their crony business partners ,so now they are angry .

http://t.co/fgOnAErc8l

these vested interests are scared of riots and them getting prosecuted thats why they try to brainwash people and try to put the ball into someone elses court.

paper

notes :

undisturbed forests absorb nearly one-fifth of the CO2 released by burning fuels. When we cut down trees, not only do we reduce the size of one of the world’s last remaining major carbon sinks, but we also trigger the rapid release of decades, if not centuries’, worth of stored carbon. Globally, 71 percent of the world’s paper supply comes from bio-diverse forests. 

Of all the trees cut down in the world, anywhere from three to six billion a year, half of those are used to make paper.

http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/06/woody-harrelsons-new-wheat-based-paper-will-save-many-trees/