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Key unveils plan to borrow for roads.

About 70 people attended the joint Engineers for Social Responsibility/
Sustainable Energy Forum conference on "Responding to Oil Depletion
and Climate Change" in Auckland on Saturday 26 July. Most of the
conference presentations, plus the conference statement and report,
are now available online at

http://www.sef.org.nz/conferences.html#2008

I've also reproduced the conference statement, which has been
distributed to various media outlets and is the basis for ongoing
discussions with Auckland local authorities, below.

Regards
Tim Jones

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Wind power key, says leading scientist.

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Australia outlines emissions scheme.

This article appeared in the Dominion Post (Wellington) on Monday 21 July.

Over a barrel - a new vision needed

In November 2007, when the world oil price was nudging US $90 per barrel, I wrote an article entitled “The Future of Oil” for the Dominion Post. The article explained that oil prices were rising because world oil production had been virtually static since 2005, while demand had continued to rise.

The Royal Society of New Zealand has released a statement setting out the basic facts about climate change in a clear, non-technical way. The Introduction to the statement says:

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Condemned to single-sex life by climate change.

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The Radio New Zealand Sunday Group discussion on Peak Oil and the future of oil supplies, broadcast on Sunday 8 June, is now available as a podcast from the Radio NZ site:

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sun/sun-20080608-1005-Sunday_Group_for... (12.5 MB)

It's about 30 minutes long. Chris Laidlaw, who ran the discussion, chose to focus mainly on the international situation, but there are some references to NZ in there.

The participants were myself, Richard Hale from Hale & Twomey, and Rob Jager from Shell New Zealand.

- Tim