On Wednesday 23rd I attended the Oil Supply Summit at the Palace of Westminster chaired by John Hemming MP. The meeting was attended by representatives from the Chemical Industries Association (CIA), National Farmers Union (NFU), Energy Institute (EI), Ofgem, New Energy Foundation (NEF) and Powerswitch with the aim to review the fossil fuel situation […]
It would appear that I’m not alone in my concerns. The last couple of days have seen a flurry of media activity on the subject of gas shortages and the energy crisis this will bring to the UK. In some ways this is encouraging but fundamentally I think it reflects poorly on the news […]
One of the many Internet forums read regularly is
www.housepricecrash.co.uk, unsurprisingly most of the discussion concerns bearish assessments of the UK housing market and economy but ever so often energy is discussed. Over the last year there have been several lengthy debates on peak oil and the possible impacts on the economy and housing market. […]
On the 27th October the DTI published the following information, thanks to Nick Rouse for bringing it to my attention:
For the three months June 2005 to August 2005 compared to the same period a year earlier:
- production of petroleum fell by 16.2%;
- production of natural gas fell by 17.0%;
- production of coal and other solid […]
On 10th and 11th of November 2005 ASPO USA held a conference titled Beyond Oil: Intelligent Response to Peak Oil Impacts.
I’ll just reproduce the key messages of the conference here and link to the absolutely fantastic coverage of the event from Stuart Staniford of The Oil Drum.
Key Messages:
1. A peak in world oil production is […]
On Wednesday 2nd November the Energy Institute held a conference titled Oil Depletion – Facing The Challenges unfortunately I was dodging riots in Paris and couldn’t be there but it seems that Claire Durkin, Head of Energy Markets Unit at the DTI made a very important announcement, she has been quoted as saying:
We can […]