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[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Campfire | Bloomington, Indiana Peak Oil Task Force ...: The Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force was charged with assessing Bloomington's vulnerability to a decline in cheap oil and developing researched and prudent strategies to protect our community. Since March 2008, the Bloomington Peak Oil Task Force has met bi-weekly to discuss ways in which our community might be made more resilient in the face of peak oil.

[Veterans Today] Peak Oil in 5 Years: Virgin Boss Branson's Warning : Veterans Today: Now the group, which also includes Arup, Foster + Partners, Scottish and Southern Energy, Solarcentury and the Stagecoach Group, is getting ready to launch its second report. looking at peak oil within the context of the recent recession, and making the case for why acting now to help the UK kick its fossil fuel habit is vital for long term economic prosperity.

[Energy Bulletin - Oil] More peak oil - Feb 12 | Energy Bulletin: The UK Peak Oil Task Force, a group of six companies headed by Branson, warned the world will face an oil crunch as early as 2015, in a report released Wednesday, .Meaning, global production will reach its peak and supply will no longer be able to meet demand ”” even if developing countries like China somehow cut back.

[Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com] Peak Oil Group Taskforce and the need to plan for greener ...: When I heard that the UK's Peak Oil Group Taskforce is calling for greener transport, I thought at once of leafy lanes in country areas joined to panoramic cycletubes in urban areas. No such luck.

[Peak Oil News] Peak Oil News - The Release of the Industry Taskforce Report on ...: Today's (10th Feb 2010) launch of the second report of the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES) was rather more high-profile than the previous one. After summaries of the report from other contributors, Richard Branson arrived late to read out a short speech and media interest (informally measured by the rate of camera flashes) picked up;

[Visions of Another Time] Peak Oil News on the Rise: “Its Real!” « Visions of Another Time: The latest report from the Taskforce points out how much modern economies depend on oil, whether for transport, heating or even fertilizer. Demand may have peaked in the developed world but any shrinkage there, is likely to be more than outweighed by the developing countries, with their rapidly expanding appetite for energy to fuel industry needs and consumer aspirations….

[Oil Change] Peak Oil More an “Immediate Threat” Than Climate Change at Oil Change: They also argue that peak oil is more of an “immediate threat” to the economy and people’s lives than climate change. The Taskforce is not saying that climate change is less important but that the impacts of a decline in easily and cheaply available oil will hit us before the worst impacts of climate change.

[MAKE WEALTH HISTORY] Britain unprepared for peak oil, says business taskforce « MAKE ...: Specifically, ITPOES recommends greater investment in public transport, incentives for renewable energy, and measures to protect poorer households from energy poverty. Surprisingly for a group that includes an airline, the report also calls for an end to the £9 billion a year tax break on domestic aviation.

[Energy Bulletin -] Peak oil, prices, and supplies - Feb 11 | Energy Bulletin: Major British companies, led by Virgin, Scottish and Southern and Stagecoach, are flagging the danger, in today's report from the UK industry taskforce on peak oil and energy security .So too are the CEOs of oil companies themselves, in the case of Total and Petrobras, and growing numbers of other senior oil industry figures, usually recently retired.

[Energy Analysis RSS | BNET Industries] Richard Branson Gives Peak Oil Street Cred | BNET Energy Blog | BNET: In London this morning (10th February 2010) the UK industry task force on peak oil and energy security launched a new report warning of the dangers of the forthcoming oil crunch. On 10 February 2010 at the Royal Society, six UK companies - Arup, Foster + Partners, Scottish and Southern Energy, Solarcentury, Stagecoach Group and Virgin -...

[Commodity Corner] Branson's Virgin Group gets into peak oil | Analysis & Opinion ...: A report released in Britain this week with the unpromising title ”” the UK’s Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil & Energy Security - might have found only a specialised readership, but for the inclusion of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group in the six-member task force.

[Commodity Trade Alert] Peak Oil: Richard Branson warns that oil crunch is coming by 2015 ...: But there are signs this is about to change, according to Jeremy Leggett, founder of the Solarcentury renewable power company and a member of a peak oil taskforce within the business community. “[We are] in regular contact with government;

[Project EVIE Blog] PEAK OIL: WHEN THERE'S NO MORE MILKSHAKE LEFT TO DRINK « Project ...: THE WORLD WILL FACE OIL SHORTAGES AND PRICE SPIKES BY AS SOON AS 2015, was the message that English entrepreneur Richard Branson gave to UK government officials and business leaders this week. ROCKETING ENERGY DEMAND BY INDUSTRIALIZING NATIONS, AND THE INABILITY TO SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE PRODUCTION CAPACITIES, will be the major causes of this “oil crunch”.

[Commodity Trade Alert] Get Ready for The Next Crisis: Peak Oil: The latest report from the Taskforce points out how much modern economies depend on oil, whether for transport, heating or even fertilizer. Demand may have peaked in the developed world but any shrinkage there, is likely to be more than outweighed by the developing countries, with their rapidly expanding appetite for energy to fuel industry needs and consumer aspirations.

[Camden Green Party's Blog] Planning for peak oil in Camden « Camden Green Party's Blog: Green Party councillors and campaigners were at last night’s meeting of Camden Council’s Sustainability Task Force, where the threat of Peak Oil was discussed and councillors resolved to ask the council to prepare a plan to show how Camden will cope with the increasing scarcity of oil and natural gas.

[HeatingOil.com » Blog] Peak Oil Task Force Helps Kentucky Town Prepare for its Future ...: “This isn’t going to be a revolution,” Tom Kern, the president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said. “It will be an evolution.

[Blog About Politics Scandals] Blog About Politics Scandals » British Politics 1970s: As both UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicholas Sarkozy have publicly observed in their calls for greater price stability, this sort of volatility is very damaging to economic activity and one that is becoming increasingly expensive for companies to hedge against. It is also true that great price volatility makes investment by both end users and energy suppliers more difficult.

[tom's fabulous weblog] peak oil wake up call: rather than peak oil outsiders, though the senior oil industry people in there are only recently retired ones. The report warns that oil shortages, insecurity of supply and price volatility are likely to start destabilising economic, political and social activity in this country within five years.

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