New Peak Oil / Oil Crisis documentary DVD available in UK & Europe

Peak Oil: Imposed by Nature is a new documentary that will be available from Friday 15th July throughout the UK and Europe via the website www.PowerSwitch.org.uk. Produced by Amund Prestegard and recommended by Dr Colin Campbell, it is an excellent introduction to the causes and consequences of the terminal decline of global oil production as we reach Hubbert's Peak, expected in 2007.

In the documentary, Dr Colin Campbell takes us to Stavanger in Norway, where he has worked the last 10 years of his professional career. He explains the different aspects of discovery and production, the increase and decline, and the fact that this will happen very soon. Dr Campbell serves as our ‘guide’ throughout the documentary, although he is just one of the many informed and informative analysts that feature.

Richard Webb is a financial risk analyst with broad experience from some of the world's largest investment banks. He expresses his opinion about signs that the market is reaching an extremity, and that this endorses what Colin Campbell and the ASPO are saying: we are near the peak. Webb underlines the importance of understanding that the dramatic event is not when we will run out of oil, but rather what will happen when there is less tomorrow than there is today.

Norwegian petroleum geologist Olve Torvanger has 30 years of worldwide experience in seismic surveys, searching for oil. He points to the seriousness of a situation in which our tools become ever more sophisticated, but we are finding less and less.

Matthew Simmons is Chairman and CEO of Simmons & Co. International, one of the world’s largest energy-investment banking firms. He expresses a deep concern for the urgent need to take measures to prevent the decline that shall destroy our society. He refers to the word "crisis" (NOTE: see brackets after ‘guide’ above) as “A temporary problem that has been left unattended so long that it has become permanent”!

Aage Figenschou, Norwegian board member of Simmons & Co, expresses worry regarding the downgrading of reserves by oil companies. He believes that we are near the peak, but underlines that it will not make people run to fill up their cars. What we will see, he says, is a constant pressure towards ever-higher prices, a rather negative outcome.

Chris Skrebowski, Editor of Petroleum Review in London, argues the case for a much stronger involvement from Government that could go as far as deciding who can - and who can not – have (NOTE: what are you saying here? Sentence doesn’t make sense. Do you mean – who can and can not have access to oil?). The Government, he claims, will find themselves monitoring a war-like situation.

Investigative reporter, Michael C Ruppert, expresses his views on Dr Campbell being approached by US intelligence in his own village in Western Ireland. Ruppert claims that what the CIA most of all wants to know is "how close is the ASPO to penetrating the public consciousness with the issues of PEAK OIL and how close is the public to acknowledging what it's going to mean.” According to Ruppert, the so-called "war on terrorism" (NOTE: once again, is this a direct quote from the doc? If not, it needs single inverted commas) is nothing but a war to control the last remaining oil reserves on the planet.

US president George W. Bush frets over the fact that the US now imports over half of their crude oil, and that very often they import that from countries that "don't particularly like us" and "that it could jeopardize the national security to be dependent on sources of energy from countries that don't care for America - what we stand for, what we love."

The Producer/Director/Cameraman is Norwegian Amund Prestegard, 52, experienced in all facets of filmmaking since 1972. Prestegard has run his own production company, Tropos Dokumentar, since 1995. Peak Oil: Imposed by Nature was nominated ‘Best Professional Documentary’ at the Norwegian Documentary Film Festival 2005. The idea for this film came about when Prestegard, during research for another project, became aware of the global oil depletion situation when reading the works of Campbell, Laherrere and Simmons during Autumn 2002.

With a running time of approximately 30 minutes, this documentary quickly absorbs, and delivers a much-needed wake-up call to anyone new to the subject of peak oil. With the need for a worldwide understanding of the causes, consequences and solutions, this documentary is a very useful tool in raising awareness. Shorter than End of Suburbia but with a strong UK focus, this is a documentary that everyone should see.

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