[Peakoil] Raising Peak Oil

[Alex Pollard]

Hi Andrew,

As the website says "ACT Peak Oil Inc. exists to raise awareness and educate
about the peak of world oil production, its implications, and the options
for mitigation, within an environmental, economic and social context."

So we are mainly about raising awareness in general. Lobbying govt is part
of that, for what it's worth.

There are not many other groups out there pushing the envelope like we do.
eg We managed to raise fuel rationing in the mainstream press.

http://act-peakoil.org/node/74

There are many lobby groups out there aware of Peak Oil and now starting to
think it through. But few would be prepared to go out on a limb and make
dire predictions - they may not want their key messages to be harmed by
association with doom-and-gloom Peak Oil talk, or they may not be familiar
enough with oil depletion to be sure they know what they are talking about. 

ACT Peak Oil is opening up previously unmentionable areas for discussion in
the public domain. Politicians and parties can then raise previously
verboten topics and not be laughed at. As the energy decline continues,
there will be an ongoing need to make informed contributions to public
debate, such as responding to proposed new non-solutions (eg fuel excise cuts).

We have email lists and events so that individuals can link up and find out
about meetings, events, community groups etc.. This helps to build the
community response.

So all in all I don't think it is so much about having a plan for ACT Peak
Oil, it has been more organic than that. We didn't plan to be witnesses at
the Senate oil inquiry in 2006, but we were invited. We have had some
successes raising Peak Oil. Suggestions are welcome.

Regards,
Alex

O4O4873828

President
ACT Peak Oil Inc.
http://act-peakoil.org



On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:16:29 +1000, "Andrew Wynberg" <awynberg at vtown.com.au>
wrote :

> Hi Alex
> 
> That's great to hear.  Please post more details of what your group has 
> planned to achieve in the past, and what happened to those plans.
> 
> Cheers
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> > Message: 2
> > Date: 11 May 2008 23:07:38 -0000
> > From: "Alex Pollard" <alex-po at trevbus.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Peakoil] Paradigm of peak oil activism?
> > To: peakoil at act-peakoil.org
> > Message-ID: <20080511230738.13519.qmail at mail.trevbus.org>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > A peak oil transition plan is something we should develop.
> >
> > As for how successful we would be in getting it implemented...
> >
> > ACT Peak Oil will be having a Special General Meeting in June, probably
> > Wednesday the 18th. Everyone is welcome to come along and join. I would 
> > like
> > to have a discussion leading up to and at that meeting to work out what it
> > is we should be doing.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alex
> > O4O4873828
> >
> > President
> > ACT Peak Oil Inc.
> > http://act-peakoil.org