With the advice and blessings of Colin Campbell, Kjell Aleklett and other leaders of ASPO Europe, a bare-bones working committee has begun the task of organizing ASPO-USA as a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt educational association to study, communicate, mitigate and otherwise respond to the impending Peak Oil phenomenon.
ASPO’S new website, at www.aspo-usa.com, presents the organization’s mission statement, a start-up working agenda, and details of a high-level world oil conference to be held in Denver, Colorado on November 10-11, 2005, to discuss the impacts of a peak and decline in petroleum production.
Denver World Oil Conference – Beyond Oil: Intelligent Response to Peak Oil Impacts … A Dialogue with the Experts (Please click www.aspo-usa.com for details on Conference Registration, Agenda, Speakers, and Sponsorship.)
The two-day forum is sponsored by ASPO-USA, the City and County of Denver, and the Community Office of Resource Efficiency (CORE.) Keynote speakers include Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert, a study of Saudi Arabia’s petroleum resources, and Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, (R-Md.; invited). Other participants will include Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper; Roger Bezdek, President MISI and co-author with Robert Hirsch of the recent DOE study on peak oil mitigation; Michael Ashar, Suncor-USA; Peter Dea, Western Gas Resources; Jeremy Gilbert, Chief Petroleum Engineer (ret.) with British Petroleum; oil industry analyst Henry Groppe; Chris Skrebowski, ed. Petroleum Review; and Tom Petrie of Petrie/Parkman. Special Honored Guests will include Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior, and Professor Walter Youngquist, author of the classic GeoDestinies.
ASPO-USA hopes to provide technical support, working assistance, and organizational affiliation to other peak oil groups and energy reform advocates wherever possible. ASPO-USA expects to have a full board of directors, an advisory board, and specialized working committees in place by October, 2005.
We thank you in advance for your support, your input, and your participation.
The Start-Up Founders,
Steve Andrews, Jim Baldauf, Ron Cooke, Dick Lawrence, Randy Udall
ASPO-USA
Steve Andrews,
Executive
Director P.O. Box 371438
Denver, CO 80237
Email: admin at aspo-usa dot com
