Top companies' peak oil warning
24 Nov, 2008 11:38 am
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Reduce text sizeLeading UK companies have launched a report, The Oil Crunch: Securing the UK’s Energy Future, warning that cheap, easily available oil is likely to end by 2013, posing a grave risk to the UK and world economy.
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It sets out a series of practical recommendations for Government, including action to grasp the significant economic and environmental opportunities from a step-change in investment in renewable energy and sustainable transport. It dismisses nuclear power and carbon capture - at least in the short term - because of the urgency of the situation.
"We need technologies that can be mobilized very quickly, like many of the renewable and efficient-energy technologies," they conclude.
Originally published in The Low Carbon Kid
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