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BobCousins on November 16, 2006 - 7:40am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Can anyone comment on this post http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/11/15/82627/430#123 from Roj? Are there any signs that the UK government has PO in serious consideration?
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Chris Vernon on November 16, 2006 - 8:21am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Are there any signs that the UK government has PO in serious consideration?
Clare Durkin the head of the DTI Energy Markets group the Senior Responsible Officer for the security of energy supplies discussed this last week at the Energy Institute conference. See write up here: Energy Institute Oil Depletion Conference

Early in her presentation she dismissed discussion of peak by saying:

We can debate at great length... when the peak will come, what's going to happen with the peak but the fact is there is still an awful lot out there and it may as well not be out there if we don't have any policies of getting it from out there to where it needs to get.

She seems more concerned about maintaining our access to the production/reserves we know about rather looking at peak oil - there is a small amount of logic in there somewhere.

At the same conference last year she said there would be a government investigation but when asked where it was she had to admit that it hadn't happened, suggesting that there wasn't the resources (people and budget rather than oil!) and that other things were high priority.

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