I’ve just sent this message to the following email addresses. I urge anybody reading this to do similar.
ieapressoffice@iea.org; energyindicators@iea.org; energymarketsinfo@iea.org; energypolicyinfo@iea.org; weo@iea.org; epd@iea.org; stats@iea.org
(or you can decide on your own list of IEA contacts)
To Whom It May Concern:
I refer you to a recent report on the Guardian UK website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/peak-oil-international-energy-agency
If these facts are shown to be [...]
Archive for the ‘Peak Oil’ Category
An email to the International Energy Agency
Posted in Corporate Accountability, Economics, Economy, Energy Crisis, Industrial Agriculture, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, tagged energy, Energy Companies, Energy Crisis, Energy Industry, IEA, International Energy Agency, Oil industry, Peak Oil, Politics, The Guardian, USA on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Peak oil has already begun. Demand accountability and transparency from IEA, the US & UK government NOW
Posted in Corporate Accountability, Economics, Economy, Energy Crisis, Globalization, Government, Industrial Agriculture, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, UK, tagged Energy Crisis, Energy Industry, Financial crisis, fossil fuels, Government, hydrocarbon energy, MP, oil, Parliament, Peak Oil, Politics, UK, USA on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Many respected critics have long speculated that official projections from the International Energy Agency, major world governments and the oil industry of how long oil production can be sustained for are exaggerated. Today this was substantiated:
Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower
Most people haven’t even gotten their heads around the fact that [...]
Letter to Gordon Brown concerning the 3rd runway at Heathrow
Posted in British government, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Economics, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Peak Oil, Politics, UK, tagged airplot, emissions, Energy Crisis, Gordon Brown, heathrow, Parliament, Politics, runway, UK on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a beneficial owner of land on the third runway site administered by the Airplot campaign I stand fervently in opposition to the building plans.
Quite apart from the socially irresponsible environmental implications, the idea that this runway will boost the UK economy in the short or long term is preposterous. First of all, despite the [...]
Quote of the day
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Economics, Energy Crisis, Globalization, Industrial Agriculture, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, Quotes, Values, tagged Climate Change, Consumer, Corporate Accountability, Dorian Gray, Industrial Agriculture, Oscar Wilde, Peak Oil, Politics, quote, Values, Victorian on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Chapter III (by Oscar Wilde)
Oscar Wilde’s observation of the decline of moral values in late nineteenth century Victorian English society resonates with even more force today. This aphorism is behind more of the world’s ills than one might [...]
Ed Miliband: please cap energy industry profits or face potentially steep increases in UK winter deaths
Posted in Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Peak Oil, Politics, UK, tagged Energy Crisis, Corporate Accountability, Peak Oil, Politics, energy, UK, Energy Companies, Energy Industry, Parliament, Ed Miliband on January 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Russia has flexed her muscles by shutting off gas supplies to the Ukraine over a payment dispute. The Ukraine allegedly hasn’t paid off its gas import debts and the contract between the two nations expired on new year’s day. This will very likely mean a supply shortage and price hikes here in the UK. Given [...]
Recommended books for those who wish to make a better world for all of us (eventually)
Posted in 9/11, Cheney, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Economics, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Iran, Iraq, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, US Election, advertisting, childhood obesity, fast food, marketing, obesity, tagged Peak Oil, Climate Change, fast food, advertisting, obesity, reading, books, Economics on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Small Is Beautiful : Economics As If People Mattered
by E F Schumacher
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
by Michael C Ruppert
Heat
by George Monbiot
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
by Webster Griffin Tarpley
(This list is ongoing)
Quote of the day
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged Politics, Tolstoy, quote, poverty, education, elite, greed, business, literature on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.
–Leo Tolstoy
UK government creates the Department for Energy and Climate Change
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged Energy Crisis, Peak Oil, Climate Change, Financial crisis, Credit Crunch, Department for Energy and Climate Change, DECC, energy supply, oil companies, economic growth on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On October 3rd Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced, among other things, the creation of the new Department for Energy and Climate Change. This is the first substantial public recognition from the UK government that energy and climate change are inextricably linked and need to be addressed as such in government policy. The tiny blurb on [...]
Mike Ruppert
Posted in 9/11, Cheney, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged Financial crisis, Mike Ruppert, Michael C. Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon, US economy, Bush administration on September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my personal heroes is a man called Michael C Ruppert. For the last three decades he has been tirelessly and fearlessly digging to get at the truth of what is really going on in the world while most of us have been focused on generating wealth for ourselves. He has done so for [...]
2nd letter response from Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat MP, 24 July 2008
Posted in Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Energy Crisis, Financial crisis, Globalization, Industrialization, Peak Oil, Politics, The Media, tagged Energy Crisis, Peak Oil, Climate Change, UK, Financial crisis, Sarah Teather, MP, Parliament, Credit Crunch, Kilburn, Brent East on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Mr Mowshowitz,
Climate Change
Thank you for your further letter on the issue of climate change, which I received on the 10th of July 2008.
I have outlined to you my concern that climate change is an extremely urgent issue that must be tackled with strong measures, and without delay. Although I am not familiar with the [...]
