[Pil-pc-oceania] Peak oil and the opportunities it offers for Australia

[Andrew Leahy]

For those without ESP -

http://www.brisinst.org.au/calendar/20070627_80.html

Title: Peak oil and the opportunities it offers Australia
When: 27 June 2007 at 6 pm (Doors open at 5.30 pm)
Where: Long Room, Customs House, 399 Queen Street, Brisbane
Cost:  $22 general admission; $11 concession; Free for members and sponsors.
RSVP: 26 June 2007 rsvp at brisinst.org.au or Tel. 07 3220 2198

The Sydney keynote from last week is available at
http://fundraisingconcepts.info/spo/index.html

On 6/26/07, pacific-edge <info at pacific-edge.info> wrote:
>
> Roger Bezdek
>
> Wednesday 27th June 2007
> 6pm.start registrations from 5.30pm
> * Please book early bookings are filling up quickly.
>
> Peak oil and the opportunities it offers for Australia
>
> Peaking of World Oil Production:
> Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management
> Dr Roger Bezdek
>
> "The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with
> an
> unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid
> fuel
> prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without
> timely
> mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be
> unprecedented.
> Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but
> to
> have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in
> advance of peaking."
> "The world has never faced a problem like this. Without massive mitigation
> more than a decade before the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will
> not be temporary. Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to
> oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and
> revolutionary".
>
>
> Dr Bezdek has 30 years experience in research and management in the
> energy,
> utility, environmental, and regulatory areas, serving in private industry,
> academia, and the federal government, and is the founder and president of
> Management Information Services, Inc. - a Washington, D.C.-based economic
> and energy research firm.
>
> He has served as Corporate Director, Corporate President and CEO,
> University
> Professor, Research Director in ERDA/DOE, Special Advisor on Energy in the
> Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. energy delegate to the
> European Community and to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and as a
> participant in the State Department AMPART program. Mr Bezdek has also
> served as a consultant to the White House, Federal and state government
> agencies, and various corporations and research organizations.
>
> During 2003/04, he served on the select Federal Task Force charged with
> rebuilding the economy of Iraq and is currently serving as a member of the
> joint U.S. National Academies of Science/Chinese Academy of Sciences
> Committee on Energy Futures and Air Pollution in Urban China and the
> United
> States.
>
>
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