Peak oil: 'Nothing to worry about' – but Labour knew the real facts

Were official warnings brushed aside by ministers or was the government knowingly misleading the public?


Barrels of oil
Has oil production already peaked? Photograph: Corbis/BarbaraDavidson

In public, the last government shrugged off the prospect of peak oil. In private, we know now that it had a different view.

powerpoint presentation released at last by the Department of Energyand Climate Change, in response to freedom of information (FoI...


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