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"Study for Prosperity Beyond Peak Oil: a ground-breaking study into how Tasmania can overcome the challenge of peak oil and oil price fluctuations with $250,000 earmarked for the study. This study will assess the vulnerability of the Tasmanian economy and community to sudden, severe or cumulative increases in the real price of petroleum products. This will help Tasmania be an early adapter and to reap the rewards by starting to storm-proof our economy today. "

The UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES) is a group of British companies concerned that threats to energy security are not receiving the attention they merit. The Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security The aim of our first report is to engage government more proactively on the peak oil threat, and also to alert the public to the problem. We aim to encourage collaborative contingency planning by government, industry, and communities on measures that can be taken to accelerate independent energy supply within the UK. In preparing this report, we asked ourselves three related questions: How big is the risk from peak oil? How big is the alternative-energy opportunity? How do the two conflate?

"Will investments in new and "unidentified" oil projects be able to compensate for the decline of the existing sources of supply, in order to fill in within less than 5 years (between now and 2015) the 10 Mbpd gap between demand and identified supplies that the DoE foresees ? "

"LocalPower is an easy way to find community groups providing practical responses to climate change, peak oil and environmental crises"