Beyond Oil South Australia

Research Links

Many reference sites are available on the web. A few of the major drivers of the debate in Australia:

• Debate in the South Australian Legislative Assembly 9/4/08. A Peak Oil Select Committee is set up. 69kb

• Making a submission to the SA Peak Oil Select Committee. (by 16th May 08)

• Maribyrnong Council, Melbourne. Policy - Peak Oil findings and recommendations. (16 pages, 339 kb,  April 2008)

• Maribyrnong Council, Melbourne.  Peak Oil Action Plan (197 kb, 10 pages, April 2008)

• Australia’s Future Oil Supply and Alternative Transport Fuels Report by the Senate Enquiry Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee. http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/rrat_ctte/oil_supply/

• The Peak Oil Foundation Netherlands on depletion by Rembrandt Koppelaar http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/9/9/02536/09753

• Chris Skrebowski's ODAC current and immediate future production analysis known as the Megaprojects database http://www.odac-info.org/bulletin/documents/MEGAPROJECTSREPORT.pdf

• Richard Heinberg’s assessment of the way forward where food production without oil becomes very, very important. http://www.energybulletin.net/22584.html

• The Oil Depletion Protocol. http://www.oildepletionprotocol.org/  When oil is recognised as scarce, it will be hoarded and the price will rise to levels that will stop international trade. How the world can avoid profiteering by oil companies and producing countries and thus avoid the pain of wars and starvation.

• Sweden, the only country to officially state that it will be fossil free by 2020. http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/5745/a/19594

• The Hirsch report. Commissioned and ignored by the United States government. Hirsch et al calculate that the United States needs twenty years to rebuild a low oil consumption economy. A description:  http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?from=rss_&fArticleId=3444622

The Hirsch report http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/the_hirsch_report.pdf

A more recent paper by Robert L. Hirsch  'Peaking of World Oil Production - Recent Forecasts was written in February 2007 and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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