BBC Two aired a programme late Tuesday (30/05/06) night considering a “what if the oil runs out” scenario, despite the title I don’t recall the word ‘if’ being used much. Whilst disappointingly not mentioning peak oil by name the subject was addressed reasonably well. Part documentary, part drama it took place in the […]
We received the sixth report from the Joint Energy Security of Supply Working Group (JESS) recently (May 06), this follows the fifth report published way back in November 04. In the third paragraph of the report they state:
In a market-based system such as the UK’s, the provision of adequate energy supplies to meet demand […]
We are still waiting for the JESS Report. Steve Davies, JESS Secretariat promised it to us week commencing 01-May-06 yet it never appeared, then Malcolm Wicks himself told us from the floor of the house that it would be published week commencing 08-May-06 and yet we still haven’t seen it.
In a similar vein however […]
The New Statesman has published a supplement titled Heat & light: UK energy and climate policy in context (hat tip Energy Bulletin). There is no mention of peak oil but lots of interesting stuff none the less.
The complete pdf of the 32 page supplement is available here.
Whilst talking about the New Statesman it’s worth […]
The Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks has recently responded to a letter from energy awareness organisation PowerSwitch. The letter directly addresses peak oil, dismissing peak before 2030 provided the necessary investments are made. On discovery he believes the decline in discovery since the sixties was due to lack of drilling in the Middle East […]
Roger Bentley has written Global Oil and Gas Depletion - A Letter to the Energy Modelling Community, published by the Energy Economics Education Foundation (The IAEE’s education affiliate) and available to download here (.pdf, page 6).
Bentley addresses this letter to the energy modelling community, it is a brief summary of the various approaches and highlights […]
Newsnight, the BBC’s late night news programme mentioned peak oil last night (25/04/206). Almost a cross between news and current affairs the programme tends to tackle the issues of the day with more depth and analysis than a regular news broadcast. Asking questions rather than just presenting facts.
Last night covered the $75 oil story […]
The title is not my own but rather the title of a news story published on the BBC News website this morning (Sun 16th Apr06).
The article reported on The Commons Environmental Audit Committee report about the UK energy gap and included this line:
“Its chairman, Conservative MP Tim Yeo, says ‘more gas fired power […]
Spending as much time reading, writing and talking about peak oil and energy as many of us here do I think it’s sometimes easy to forget just how small a minority we actually are.
10th and 11th this month I was at the Royal Society in London for their conference Energy… for the future. I […]
Those are the words of Christophe de Margerie, head of exploration for Total and heir presumptive to the leadership of the French energy multinational as reported by The Times newspaper today (8th April 06): World ‘cannot meet oil demand’. In the interview de Margerie addressed the IEA’s World Energy Outlook which predicts world […]