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The Metro White Paper on Peak Oil
Submitted by Lisa on June 1, 2006 - 9:27am.
http://www.metro-region.org/library_docs/council/whitepaper_oil_supply_uncertainty.pdf
I just did a search of this site for "Daniel Lerch," Rex Burkholder staff member who wrote this white paper on energy depletion and I didn't find it. I'm not sure if a link to this PDF has been posted yet.
This is a really amazing development! He points out that oil is an "assumed, essential and non-interchangeable system input," brings up the Hirsch Report, and most importantly outlines short term and long term areas of action specific to Metro.
Maybe this is old news, I've had my head in a bass cabinet for a while.
Metro paper follow-up
I'm glad you found it to be a valuable paper! I agree that it's an important development, in that it represents an initative by an elected official (Councilor Burkholder) to get a solid basis established for acting on energy vulnerability. At the time the paper was written, there weren't really any other examples of municipal/regional government documents that went beyond reporting on Peak Oil to analyzing the broader problem --"oil supply uncertainty"-- as a complex policy problem.
Don't worry, this isn't "old news" -- the paper was released in April, but it hasn't gotten much attention outside Metro and City circles. Thanks for posting it here.
A more reliable permanent link for that white paper is:
http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?ArticleID=18951
This link also includes a link to a PowerPoint we put together for talking about the paper to staff and other folks.
Daniel
PS- I did the writing for the paper, but it was very much informed by an ad hoc committee of Metro staff. Also, I am no longer working with Metro; I am now with Post Carbon Institute and will post about _that_ project separately.