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Peak Oil UK
Entering the Age of Oil Depletion
A conference to discuss the impending peak then
decline in
global oil production and its implications
for the UK
at
The Royal Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street
Edinburgh
on
Monday 25 April 2005
9:00am - 5:00pm
Organised by Depletion Scotland
with support from The Oil Depletion Analysis
Centre (ODAC)
Moderator:
Mark Stephen, BBC Radio
“The end-of-the-fossil-hydrocarbons scenario is … a view of scarcity
in the coming years and decades that must be taken
seriously. Forward-looking politicians, company chiefs and economists
should prepare for this in good time, to effect the
necessary transition as smoothly as
possible”
Deutsche Bank, Dec 2004
The Speakers
Colin Campbell – Founder and Chairman of The Association for the Study
of Peak Oil (ASPO) and a trustee of The Oil
Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC), he is a retired oilman who started his
career as a field geologist in South America and
ended it as an Executive Vice President in Norway
Jeremy Leggett – Chief Executive of solarcentury, he was an
award-winning scientist, oil-industry consultant, and
Greenpeace campaigner before setting up the UK’s leading solar energy
company.
Matthew Simmons – Chairman of a major U.S. energy investment firm,
Simmons & Company International. His energy
research papers and presentations are regularly published, and he is now
completing a book about the future of oil production
in Saudi Arabia.
Chris Skrebowski – Editor of Petroleum Review. He has written
extensively on oil depletion. He is a founder member of
ASPO and an ODAC trustee, and was formerly an oil market analyst and a
BP planner.
David Spaven – Chairman of TRANSform Scotland, which campaigns for
sustainable transport, whose membership includes
major bus and train operators. He spent 18 years in marketing management
with British Rail, and since 1992 has been a
transportation consultant.
Brian Wilson MP – UK Energy Minister from 2001 to 2003, he has served as
Labour MP for Cunninghame North (Scotland)
since 1987. He is a former Foreign Office, Scottish Office, and Trade
and Industry Minister.
To Book
http://www.depletion-scotland.org.uk
http://www.odac-info.org
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