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9pm, The Man Who Broke Britain. A compelling dramatised documentary designed to reveal the fragility of financial trading systems. Shortly after a terrorist...
POWERSWITCH NEWSLETTER 7th DECEMBER 2004 LATEST NEWS ON POWERSWITCH MORE END OF SUBURBIA NEWS! Powerswitch.org.uk is very close to making End of Suburbia...
Note URL has now changed to: http://edm.ais.co.uk/weblink/html/motion.html/EDMI_SES=03/ref=199 Robert McLean ... Read this - some MPs are concerned about Peak...
Saw this in Metro newspaper. A potential 500mb field found in the Rosevale(?) area about 70 miles of Shetland. Of course, they haven't actually estimated the...
According to this proven reserves are supposed to be just 16.9billion barrels (onshore and offshore) http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/northsea.html I think...
I went to my consituency MP yesterday to ask why the govt are still doing nothing of consequence about peak oil. Notable replies included doubts about the...
Max, we (Powerswitch) will be mailing every MP in the New Year about the issue - if you have a similar plan, please let me kow. Shocking stuff from the...
Max, you can refer your MP to the presentation to House of Commons All Party Committee of MP's made by Dr Colin Campbell on July 07, 1999 on this very subject,...
Scotland On Sunday ran a feature on this and North Sea Oil's future: http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business.cfm?id=1418982004 Conclusion, future oil...
If you look at an overall graph of oil and gas production in the North Sea you will see that we are past the peak. At present continuing production from...
He really has no excuse. This is simply evidence of a complete absence of joined-up-thinking. I wonder if the Shadow Minister is any better informed? Anyone...
In accepting the obviousness of Peak Oil and the huge impact it will make on our current way of life, one of the doubts that come to mind, is to do with why...
POWERSWITCH NEWSLETTER 21st DECEMBER 2004 We now approach the Christmas & New Year festivities and for a short time I’m going to allow myself to forget about...
To be quite honest, Richard, I can't square the circle.. We do see evaluations of both US and UK political activity that imply first one thing, and then...
Mike, I think you have the answers in your note. 1. The flat earth economists might be right. It is very very unlikley, but in pure science terms I don't...
Max, All very valid points. The upshot is that we can but hope for a miracle (be that new oil, worldwide realisation & cooperation, a new energy source...)...
... public ... I ... and ... Will democracy be the downfall of peak-oil society? We, the people wanted the good times to roll on and we only wanted to hear...
Roland, I suppose the answer is yes to a great degree. I have heard or read that the ideal government system is benign dictatorship - where an individual or...
What gets me is the criticism that free market thinking gets from the likes of Colin Campbell and Heinberg over and against democratic socialism. Or perhaps...
You can have a play with the idea of benign dictatorships etc. at www.nationstates.net Very thought provoking, and fun at the same time. But yes, democracy is...
We don't have any one 'pure' ism here (or anywhere). The USA is more capitalistic and free market than I suppose the UK is - and probably Europe. There is no...
Norman, Thanks for the reference - as ever I got sidetracked into reading some other material - in particular I am intrigued by the potential to use Silicon as...
A few of us seem to live around Edinburgh which plans to hold a referendum this Spring on whether to follow London with congestion charging. From a peak oil...
