Behind government dismissals of ‘alarmist’ fears, there is growing concern over critical future energy supplies. Speculation that government ministers are far more concerned about a future supply crunch than they have admitted has been fuelled by the revelation that they are canvassing views from industry and the scientific community about “peak oil.”
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is also refusing to hand over policy documents about “peak oil” – the point at which oil production reaches its maximum and then declines – under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, despite releasing others in which it admits “secrecy around the topic is probably not good”.
Terry Macalister and Lionel Badal has written an article about this in The Guardian where they highlight the events are going on behind the scenes in the UK government.
Read more: The Guardian