News article filed by BNP news team
Another newspaper makes mention of the looming crisis the BNP first mentioned some five years ago; the imminent shortage of fossil fuels to power industrial civilization. Today’s article in the Independent comes just days after veteran journalist William Rees Mogg broached the subject in http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=1614. The rapid economic growth of the world has literally been fuelled by the oil and gas reserves which were laid down hundreds of millions of years ago and which are not being replenished.
The black stuff is a once in a planet’s lifetime opportunity and BNP commentators are now clearly proven, not to be alarmist, but correct in the timing of “Peak Oil”; that is the period when the first 50% of oil and gas have been extracted and refined. The second 50% is still there in the ground but is more difficult to extract, this more costly to extract and process. Eight years to Peak
According to today’s http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2790960.ece a warning was issued last week to the world’s top oilmen that 2015 will be the year of Peak Oil. Some experts suggest that Peak Oil has already occurred or will occur within 2-3 years.
“Humanity is approaching an unprecedented crisis when not enough oil and gas will be produced to keep industrial civilisation running, the world’s top oilmen warned last week.
“The warning – which is being hailed as a “tipping point” on both sides of the Atlantic – marks the first time that the industry has accepted that it may soon no longer be able to meet demand for its products. In Facing the Hard Truths about Energy, it gives authoritative support to concern about impending shortages, following a similar alert by the International Energy Agency less than two weeks ago.
“The 420-page report, the most comprehensive study ever carried out into the industry, has been produced by the National Petroleum Council, a body of 175 authorities that reports to the US government. It includes the heads of the world’s big oil companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Occidental Petroleum, Shell and BP.”
Expert briefing
Last autumn the BNP leadership was briefed by one of the world’s leading experts on Peal Oil. Following our repeated coverage of Peak Oil since 2002 the BNP has become the only UK political party to make this an issue and Peak Oil expert, http://www.bnp.org.uk/articles/peakgas.html participated in a two-day conference at a hotel in the New Forest which discussed the political, social and economic impact of Peak Oil and the threats and opportunities that are likely to present themselves.
The Party’s commitment to renewable energy sources based on offshore wind, wave and tidal power was reinforced by the discussions at the autumn conference. In addition our Annual Conference in November also backed the Party pledge to a new generation of safe, efficient and viable nuclear power stations giving the country energy security removing our reliance on the import of fossil fuels from often unstable and hostile regimes in the Middle East and central Asia.
Illuminating plans, first http://www.bnp.org.uk/articles/humanising_cities.htm in 2004 to redevelop Britain’s cities to survive and prosper in a post-Peak world were also discussed proving that the BNP is composed of serious thinkers, visionaries and architects of a better future for the British people.
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A Peak Oil primer can be found on the BNP site http://www.bnp.org.uk/peakoil/index.htm