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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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A petition urging the government to reevaluate their position on an imminent peak in global oil production has been posted on the 10 Downing Street website.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Oil-Depletion/ All UK citizens can sign online. The deadline for signatures is July 29th 2008. |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
50 MPs warn government that global oil production may be peaking London, 23rd May 2008 - A cross-party group of MPs including former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell have signed a Commons motion urging the government to review its estimates as to when global oil production will peak and begin to decline.
As crude oil hit another record high of $135 a barrel on Wednesday, and as UK motorists notice the impact of sustained high prices at the petrol pumps, MPs are beginning to mobilise around the idea that current high oil prices may just be the beginning of a permanent trend. Experts at the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) have warned of an overall liquid fuel peak likely between 2010-2012, while the International Energy Agency (IEA) have predicted an oil 'supply crunch' in 2012. John Hemming MP, who tabled the Early Day Motion (1453) said that 'the government is failing to address the reality that we are reaching the limits to growth in global oil production. The implications for the way we run our society and economy are profound, but the government refuses even to initiate a contingency study. Rather than making futile appeals to OPEC to raise production, Gordon Brown must recognise that we cannot carry on with the same old assumptions of endless growth in world oil production'. Hemming chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil (APPGOPO) which was founded in July 2007 to review estimates of future oil production and consider the consequences of declining world oil production for the UK and world economy. Link to the EDM here: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=35715&SESSION=891
Contact: Neil Endicott at
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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APPGOPO Meeting May 13th Speakers: Rob Hopkins (Transition Towns) - audio (presentation) + audio (Q&A) Shaun Chamberlin (Tradeable Energy Quotas) - audio & powerpoint presentation
Simon Snowden (Liverpool University, Oil Vulnerability Auditing) - audio & powerpoint presentation
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
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John Hemming MP, Chair of APPGOPO, has tabled the Early Day Motion below. We encourage you to email your MP asking them to sign this Motion. You can email your MP through www.writetothem.com
EDM 1453 - ENERGY AND FOOD PRICES AND PEAK OIL 29.04.2008 Hemming, John That this House notes that current movements in energy and food prices are in conformance with the predictions as to what would happen as oil production peaks; and calls for the Government urgently to review its predictions as to when peak oil occurs with a view to determining whether or not urgent policy adjustments are called for. |
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