Peak Oil report

The UK's Energy Research Centre has just published an important report that's essential reading for policy makers, analysts and anyone with an interest in business continuity.

The ERC are an independent body, and echo the calls of previous such as those from ITPOES - the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security, who produced 'The Oil Crunch' in October 2008.

That central government departments are not planning or engaging the public or local authorities in peak oil or rapid carbon descent is yet another example of the inadequacy of our existing planning system (which is not planner's fault) to respond to 'game change' information shifts.

A series of 'rapid planning' events planned that we are planning for communities across Wales in the coming months will go some way to populating the plan that we need to map our way forwards.