[Ost-news] The Peak Oil Crisis: Load shedding

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The Peak Oil Crisis: Load shedding  
by Tom Whipple

Fall Church News-Press (March 27 2008)

Largely unnoticed in America are the increasingly frequent electricity  
shortages developing around the world.

Many of these are caused by shifting weather patterns that are leaving  
hydro-electric dams with insufficient water to produce at full capacity.  
While some aspects of global climate change are temporary, many, such as  
the melting of glaciers, seem destined to last for decades, or perhaps  
centuries, thereby depriving the world of some of the best sources of

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-oil-crisis-load-shedding

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