Lisa Breglia: New Book Presentation: Living with Oil: Promises, Peaks, and Declines
Colloquium
Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, B
While the Global North is increasingly preoccupied with maintaining access to energy supplies under conditions of political insecurity and resource decline, the Global South faces a different sort of energy crisis. For decades, energy production zones in the South exported vast qualities of crude oil to the energy-hungry North. Now, sharply declining production (“Peak Oil”) is coupled with rising domestic demands in the developing world. Nowhere is this contemporary energy crisis more apparent than in Mexico––one of the world’s top non-OPEC oil exporters and one of the US’s top three suppliers. In her new book, Lisa Breglia examines how the 2004 peak and subsequent decline of Cantarell, the world's largest offshore oilfield, affects lives and livelihoods of frontline communities on Mexico's Gulf coast. Living under the shadow of oil production for more than three decades, coastal communities now face the social, political, economic and environmental dilemmas of a post-peak world.
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