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| Link to The Guardian |
"The government was warned by its own civil servants two years ago that there could be 'significant negative economic consequences' to the UK, posed by near-term 'peak oil' energy shortages.
"Ministers were told it was impossible to know exactly when production might fail to meet supply, but when it did there could be global consequences, including 'civil unrest'.
"Yet ministers consistently played down the threat, with the contemporaneous Wicks Review into energy security (pdf) effectively dismissing peak oil as alarmist and irrelevant
The report on the risks and impacts of a potential future decline in oil production has just been published. This happened, but only after the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) was repeatedly threatened under the Freedom of Information Act with forced disclosure."
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