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Peak Oil Documentary on RTÉ

category national | environment | event notice author Monday June 18, 2007 10:07author by Caoimhín Ó Maolallaigh - Green Party/Comhaontas Glas Report this post to the editors

Future Shock: End of the Oil Age 9:30pm tonight

In Future Shock: End of the Oil Age, RTÉ's Chief Economic Correspondent George Lee brings us to the heart of one of the biggest challenges that Ireland faces in the future - life after Peak Oil.

Peak Oil refers to a point in time when, with remaining reserves beginning to diminish, world oil production will reach its maximum point. The crossing of this simple threshold will be one of the biggest events in modern history: every day that passes after Peak Oil, there will be less oil available. The ensuing and inevitable rise in oil prices will be only the first of the continuing shocks for Ireland and the developed world.

In this, the second of RTÉ Television's Future Shock programmes, George Lee examines how close we are to the end of the oil age and how dramatically life may change in Ireland as the wells begin, finally, to dry up.

The Celtic Tiger thrived on a diet of cheap fuel. Indeed, the whole of Ireland's trading economy, from our labour supply to our civic structures, from our ever-expanding suburbs to our lifestyle and leisure patterns, are all based on cheap fuel and maximum mobility. Without this steady supply of cheap oil, many of the presumptions behind our very standard of living itself may require rapid re-evaluation.

After the oil crash, even Ireland's geographical position as an Atlantic island could become a defining, and isolating, factor in Ireland's future.

George Lee is Chief Economics Correspondent for RTÉ News and Current Affairs, reporting for both RTÉ Radio and RTÉ Television.

Related Link: http://www.peakoil.ie

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Dares Not Speak its Name     Panda    Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:56 
   Eh, he actually did put Green Party in his article...     Jimbob    Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:30 
   Panda specs     Panda    Mon Jun 18, 2007 13:03 
   Programme time     Anon    Mon Jun 18, 2007 14:28 
   Last Thurs Independent: A World Without Oil     Anon    Mon Jun 18, 2007 15:24 
   a good thing, no?     chevron    Mon Jun 18, 2007 18:07 
   please record and post IRE ONE peakoil show     peakoil portland oregon    Mon Jun 18, 2007 20:30 
   millions of vegetables can be grown right now in dublin.... become the change...     dunk    Mon Jun 18, 2007 21:04 
   gee, no mention of our own gas and oilfields. how surprising!     wageslave    Tue Jun 19, 2007 01:02 
 10   We're dooooomed I tell ya!     b    Tue Jun 19, 2007 09:39 
 11   Re: Peak Oil Documentary on RTÉ     Terence    Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:11 
 12   Doom & Gloom?     SteveO    Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:14 
 13   its worse than you think     bj    Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:32 
 14   More Coal !!     SteveO    Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:40 
 15   dull and simplistic     Balthasar    Tue Jun 19, 2007 13:34 
 16   Re: dull and simplistic     Terence    Tue Jun 19, 2007 13:49 
 17   Wind Power should be made a priority NOW     Mike    Tue Jun 19, 2007 15:22 
 18   Wind Power     Mike    Tue Jun 19, 2007 15:29 
 19   RE: dull and simplistic     Balthasar    Tue Jun 19, 2007 15:43 
 20   Public Broadcasting.     M B    Tue Jun 19, 2007 16:25 
 21   havent they already peaked?     plutocracy    Tue Jun 19, 2007 17:04 
 22   Wind Power     Mike    Tue Jun 19, 2007 17:29 
 23   The model for Ireland     Mike    Tue Jun 19, 2007 17:42 
 24   Something else to consider...     Mike    Tue Jun 19, 2007 17:45 
 25   Re: RE: dull and simplistic     Terence    Tue Jun 19, 2007 19:42 
 26   This one was much more fun and less politically correct!!     wageslave    Wed Jun 20, 2007 03:45 
 27   Video of RTE Peak Oil documentary available online     Terence    Wed Jun 20, 2007 18:08 
 28   Get informed!     Geologist    Sat Jun 23, 2007 17:58 
 29   RE Wind power     black man ray    Sat Jun 23, 2007 20:17 
 30   Here we go again..     Nuke power    Sun Jun 24, 2007 23:40 
 31   More letters     Dan Hayes    Mon Jun 25, 2007 20:43 
 32   Letters in the papers     Dan Hayes    Mon Jun 25, 2007 20:49 
 33   Gulf stream     Balthasar    Mon Jun 25, 2007 21:43 
 34   Good man The Dan     b    Mon Jun 25, 2007 21:47 
 35   stuff     Dan Hayes    Mon Jun 25, 2007 22:17 
 36   gulf stream     dan hayes    Mon Jun 25, 2007 22:21 
 37   Message to Dan Hayes     Recycletta    Fri Jul 20, 2007 14:41 


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