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  • Peter Tertzakian is the Chief Energy Economist and a Director of ARC Financial Corporation. He is also a member of ARC's Investment Committee. In addition to directing ARC’s economic research, Peter is the author of A Thousand Barrels A Second published by McGraw Hill. Peter also publishes ARC Energy Charts, a weekly journal of energy trends.

    Peter has an undergraduate degree in Geophysics from the University of Alberta, and a graduate degree in Econometrics from the University of Southampton, U.K. He also holds a Master of Science in Management of Technology from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

  • Collin Campbel - After being awarded a Ph.D at Oxford in 1957, Dr Campbell joined the oil industry as an exploration geologist. His career took him to Borneo, Trinidad, Colombia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the USA, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Norway.

    He is now a Trustee of the Oil Depletion Analysis Center ("ODAC"), a charitable organization in London that is dedicated to researching the date and impact of the peak and decline of world oil production due to resource constraints, and raising awareness of the serious consequences. He has published extensively, and his recent articles have stimulated lively debate. His views are provocative yet carry the weight of a wide international experience.

  • T Boone Pickens is an American businessman, Chairman of BP Capital, and well-known takeover artist during the 1980s.

    Pickens was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma to a Texas oil and mineral rights leaser. Pickens attended Texas A&M and Oklahoma A&M, joining Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in geology in 1951. After a period as a wildcatter he started working for Phillips Petroleum. Shortly thereafter he struck out on his own founding the company that became Mesa Petroleum in 1956.

  • James Howard Kunstler is the author of The Long Emergency, The Geography of Nowhere, The City in Mind, and nine novels. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and was an editor at Rolling Stone in the early days. He lives in upstate New York.

  • A great multimedia presentation on peak oil with interviews and interactive from “4 corners”. Click here

  • What would happen if the world were to start running out of oil? Conventional wisdom says we've got 30 years, but there's a growing fear amongst petroleum experts it's happening much sooner than we thought - that we are hitting the beginning of the end of oil now. So how soon will the oil run out, and can we stop out economy collapsing when it does ? How prepared are we for the real oil crisis ? Here as video from ABC Australia.
  • William Clark has received two Project Censored awards, first in 2003 for his ground-breaking research on the Iraq War, oil currency conflict, and U.S. geostrategy and again in 2005 for his research on Iran's upcoming Euro-denominated oil bourse. He is an Information Security Analyst, and holds a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Information and Telecommunication Systems from John Hopkins University. He lives in Rockville, Maryland. He is also the author of the book "Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar"
  • Kenneth S Deffeyes is professor emeritus at Princeton University. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 1967, he conducted research at the Shell Oil research laboratory in Houston and taught at the University of Minnesota and Oregon State University. The coauthor of Physical Geology and the author of numerous papers, he is perhaps best known to general readers as the guide/mentor in John McPhee's series of popular books on geology, collected and republished under the title Annals of the Former World.
  • Dr. David L. Goodstein, Ph.D., is Vice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Caltech, where he has been on the faculty for more than 35 years. In 1995, he was named the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor. In 1999, Dr. Goodstein was awarded the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and in 2000, the John P. McGovern Medal of the Sigma Xi Society. He has served on and chaired numerous scientific and academic panels, including the National Advisory Committee to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the California Council on Science and Technology. His books include States of Matter (Prentice Hall, 1975, Dover, 1985) and Feynman’s Lost Lecture (Norton, 1996), written with his wife, Dr. Judith Goodstein. In the 1980’s he was Director and host of The Mechanical Universe, an educational television series that has been used by millions of students all over the world. He is also authored a book on peak oil titled "Out of gas".
  • Richard Heinberg is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil (oil depletion) educators and is a Research Fellow of Post Carbon Institute. He is the award-winning author of seven books including The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies; Power down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World; and The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse. He is a journalist, educator, lecturer, and a Core Faculty member of New College of California, where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community." His monthly MuseLetter has been published since 1992 and his essays and articles have appeared widely and in many languages. He was featured prominently in the documentary film The End of Suburbia, he has been quoted in Time magazine, and his work has been discussed in articles syndicated by Reuters and the Associated Press. Since 2002, he has given over two hundred lectures on oil depletion to a wide variety of audiences – from insurance executives to peace activists, from local and national elected officials to Jesuit volunteers. He and his wife Janet Barocco live in Santa Rosa, California, in an energy-efficient home. He is also an avid amateur violinist.

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