The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) is an independent, UK-registered educational charity working to raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion problem.
ODAC Weekly Newsletter
3rd September 2010 edition: "A report by the German armed services (the Bundeswehr) on the implications of peak oil on national security was leaked to the internet this week and picked up by Der Spiegel. The report, which was produced by the Future Analysis department of the Bundeswehr Transformation Centre, acknowledges that peak oil will happen, and that while estimates of the timing vary it could be any time from 2010 with the impacts on security likely to be felt 15 to 20 years later."...
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Peak Oil - Sicherheitspolitische Implikationen knapper Ressourcen (Implications Of Resource Scarcity On [National] Security) - 1986Kb. For translated excerpts see http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2010/09/02/leaked-study-peak-oil-warns-severe-global-energy-crisis/.
Zentrum fuer Transformation der Bundeswehr, Dezernat Zukunftsanalyse (Center for German Army Transformation, Group for “Future Studies”) - July 2010
Oil, health, and health care
Angela E Raffle, consultant in public health - British Medical Journal - August 2010
Oil sands development contributes elements toxic at low concentrations to the Athabasca River and its tributaries - 581Kb
Erin N. Kellya, David W. Schindlera,1, Peter V. Hodsonb, Jeffrey W. Shortc, Roseanna Radmanovicha, and Charlene C. Nielsena - University of Alberta - August 2010
Africa: up for grabs - The scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels - 1620Kb
Friends of the Earth - August 2010
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