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

[pacific-edge]

Thanks Roger...
For some reason some of the message didn't send.

...Russ


On 26/6/07 12:25 PM, "Andrew Leahy" <alfski at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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