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1. UK Summit to Discuss Peak Oil
According to a report in The Guardian newspaper yesterday, Lord Hunt, the UK’s energy minister, will meet with industrialists in London today in an effort “to calm mounting fears about the disruption that could follow a sudden shortage of oil supplies.”
The Guardian wrote that the decision to hold the talks came after the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security issued its second report, The Oil Crunch: a Wake-up Call for the UK Economy, in which it warned of the dangers of complacency in the face of world oil peaking. Compared to the UK government’s somewhat predictable “it’s not an issue” response to the task force’s first report, the agreement to meet today represents a significant policy shift. Apparently the Energy Ministry has agreed to conduct a serious study to determine whether the UK needs to take concerted action to avoid the worst dislocations that could result from the peaking of world oil
production.
Jeremy Leggett, a catalyst for the task force as well as executive chairman of the renewable energy company Solar Century, told The Guardian that the meeting, to be held at the Energy Institute in London, showed a welcome new sense of urgency.
[About the UK Peak Oil Summit] “Was it a historic moment? Yes I think it was, largely because we weren’t really debating whether Peak Oil would occur but rather how soon and in what form."
http://www.aspo-usa.org/index.php/category/peak-oil-review/peak-oil-review/
According to a report in The Guardian newspaper yesterday, Lord Hunt, the UK’s energy minister, will meet with industrialists in London today in an effort “to calm mounting fears about the disruption that could follow a sudden shortage of oil supplies.”
The Guardian wrote that the decision to hold the talks came after the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security issued its second report, The Oil Crunch: a Wake-up Call for the UK Economy, in which it warned of the dangers of complacency in the face of world oil peaking. Compared to the UK government’s somewhat predictable “it’s not an issue” response to the task force’s first report, the agreement to meet today represents a significant policy shift. Apparently the Energy Ministry has agreed to conduct a serious study to determine whether the UK needs to take concerted action to avoid the worst dislocations that could result from the peaking of world oil
production.
Jeremy Leggett, a catalyst for the task force as well as executive chairman of the renewable energy company Solar Century, told The Guardian that the meeting, to be held at the Energy Institute in London, showed a welcome new sense of urgency.
[About the UK Peak Oil Summit] “Was it a historic moment? Yes I think it was, largely because we weren’t really debating whether Peak Oil would occur but rather how soon and in what form."
http://www.aspo-usa.org/index.php/category/peak-oil-review/peak-oil-review/
