OpenOil
abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-05
Summary:
"OpenOil was founded in the belief that creative, practical and socially progressive policy making in the oil and gas industries is both vital to our collective future, and possible within current constraints. Yes, our continued addiction to hydrocarbons is a bad idea. And yes we need to get much more serious about renewables. But even with the most aggressive expansion of green energy imaginable, nobody has a credible plan for a carbon-free economy before 2030. Until then, the oil and gas industries will continue to play a huge part in global prosperity and development – or not. To refuse to engage with that reality is dangerous and irresponsible. It is also to guarantee 'business as usual' in day-to-day workings of the industry. The Resource Curse continues to blight millions of lives. OpenOil believes that oil and gas production can benefit the citizens of producing countries more effectively, and the damage wrought by opaque and undemocratic government, often as a result of the prize to be obtained by controlling natural resource wealth, can be mitigated and reversed. The increasing uncertainty over how much oil is left, and at what extractable price, also makes global energy security an ever greater concern. Resource diplomacy is becoming more intensive as new resource conflicts loom on the horizon. We need better ways to ensure more stable energy supplies and more long-term thinking on energy demand. OpenOil believes in the following general principles ..."