ASPO Ireland is going through a period of transition, much as the world is, as we move into a post-peak oil world. ASPO’s origins has been in the technical expertise of largely former oil industry executives, who’s work developing oil production forecast models is and will always continue to be a cornerstone of ASPO’s work. [...]
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ASPO Ireland welcomes new Directors to its Board
Posted in ASPO, Ireland, News on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On preaching, the converted, Ostrichs, and getting on with it
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Ireland, News on May 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Planning Our Retreat from Fossil Fuels – Exploring the Ramifications of Peak Oil
John Gibbons leads a discussion with Minister of State Ciaran Cuffe, David Korowicz from FEASTA (The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability) and ASPO Ireland Director, Richard O’Rourke, on the ramifications of Peak Oil and what we can and should be doing to prepare for it.
UCD Environmental Week, Bailout Tuesday, & Social Entrepreneur Awards
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Ireland, News, tagged Ashoka, Mary Robinson, Rob Hopkins, Transition Towns, UCD on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ASPO Ireland was invited to give a lunchtime lecture on Peak Oil as part of UCD’s Environmental Week: “What is Peak Oil? And why should I care?”
SEI Rebrands without mention of Energy Security
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Comment, Ireland, News, tagged Energy Security, Policy, SEAI, SEI on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last Wednesday, March 10th, SEI rebranded the organisation Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and launched their 5 year strategic plan.
Unfortunately, neither the term ‘Peak Oil’ nor the term ‘Energy Security’ got a single mention, unlike Climate Change.
Is the recently increased oil price good news for the environment?
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Comment on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The international community has been laboring for 10 years under the Kyoto Protocol negotiations to agree on a global reduction of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of less than 10 percent by 2012. So the market has achieved within a few months what international bureaucrats – hampered by resistance from key consumer countries like the United States, China, Australia and India – have struggled to obtain in a decade.
Energy supply : From Expansion to Contraction
Posted in ASPO, Comment, tagged Global Oil, Risk & Security, Supply & Demand on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Many people ask: Are we running out of oil? The simple answer is; Yes, we started doing that when we consumed the first gallon. But running out is not the main point when what matters much more is the onset of decline which now dawns as we enter the Second Half of the Age of Oil.
A voyage to peak oil enlightenment
Posted in Advocacy, ASPO, Comment, Guest Post, International, News, tagged CERA, Chris Skrebowski on December 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Skrebowski responds to CERA report debunking Peak Oil ‘Theory’.
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Dr. Lovestrange or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Peak Oil
Posted in ASPO, Comment on November 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Over a month has passed since Vinay Gupta and Dougald Hine‘s visit to our shores to take a look at the state of the country and offer us a view of their work through the eyes of that experience. Probably Vinay’s most telling comment on the value of the trip was: It’s the one place [...]
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