Das Internationale Institut für den Frieden, Wien, IIP, hat eine Gruppe von Experten zu einem Workshop über Energiepolitik am 14. Juni 2006 nach Wien eingeladen, um Vorschläge für zukünftige Lösungen zur Energieversorgung zu machen sowie friedliche Wege zur Erreichung höherer Produktion und fairer marktregulierter Verteilung aufzuzeigen.
In einem erarbeiteten Dokument weist die Arbeitsgruppe auf die Existenz spektakulärer Energietechnologien hin, die von den Ländern der G-8 und anderen entwickelt wurden, jedoch leider nicht für die Entwicklung neuer Alternativen zur Energieversorgung der Zivilbevölkerung genutzt werden, sondern für militärische und zu Zwecken der nationalen Sicherheit geheim und exklusiv gehalten werden.
„Da private Initiativen zur Kontaktaufnahme mit der Forschung auf diesem Gebiet von verschiedenen Regierungsorganisationen erschwert bzw. verhindert werden, muss eine gemeinsame Forschung ins Leben gerufen werden, entweder im Wege einer neuen Weltenergiebehörde oder durch Beschluss der bereits existierenden Internationalen Energiebehörde (IEA). Ein solcher Schritt kann jedoch nur erfolgreich sein, wenn die G-8 und andere Staaten im Besitz ähnlicher Technologien bereit sind, ihren geheimen Wettbewerb aufzugeben. Andernfalls wird die Weltbevölkerung, aber auch die Bevölkerung der G-8 Länder unter der fehlenden Versorgung mit preiswerter, sauberer Energie leiden“, so die Experten.
Die vom IIP eingeladene, unabhängige Arbeitsgruppe ist überzeugt, dass gemeinsame Ressourcen und Forschungsbemühungen innerhalb eines angemessenen Zeitraumes zu neuen Wegen der Energieversorgung führen können.
Ein Interview über das Dokument mit dem Präsidenten des IIP, Bundesminister a. D. Erwin Lanc kann unter folgendem Link abgerufen werden:
Interview Erwin Lanc
Contribution and proposal for the energy policy considerations of the
G-8 Summit 2006 in St. Petersburg
Elaborated by the International Institute for Peace, Vienna
Based on a workshop on June 14th attended by:
Erwin Lanc, Federal Foreign Minster ret., Austria
Prince Mag. Alfred Heinrich von Liechtenstein, alternative energy expert
Grigory Lokshin, International Association of Peace Foundations, Moscow
Dr. Brigitte Marcher, Renner Institute, Vienna
Prof. Dr. AntonGiulio de Robertis, University of Bari, Italy
DI Bernhard Sagmeister, Kommunalkredit Austria AG
Ac. Prof. Nodari A. Simonia, Director of IMEMO, Russian Academy of Science
Dr. Leopold Specht, solicitor, law expert on economy
Mag. Peter Stania, Director of the IIP
DI Dr. Günter Veronik, Wärmebetriebe GesmbH, Villach, Austria
Taking into account that:
- we are on the way to a multipolar world
- the influence of OPEC as a monopolistic instrument in regulating production and prices of oil is decreasing
- former self supplying or even oil exporting countries are now net importers
- industrialization and economic growth in big developing countries accelerate volume and speed of energy – especially oil and gas – demand
- the dependence of oil exporting countries from the old industrialized countries like Europe and North America is reduced
- an increased substitution of oil by gas needs substantial investments in pipelines and thereby cooperation of the countries these pipelines have to cross
- the long term increase of energy demand exceeds the expected additional production
- a race for the discovery of new reserves of oil and/or gas will see an increasingly competitive participation of companies from rapidly industrializing countries like China and India
- traditional military power policy to stabilize the control over the largest oil and gas reserves in the Arab Gulf has obviously failed
- all indicators point at a stabilization of market prices for crude and for oil on a very high level for the foreseeable future
- even usage of alternative energies stimulated by high energy prices will not substantially contribute to energy supply except on a regional basis
- an increased use of nuclear energy will increase the hither to unresolved problem of storage and handling of radioactive, hazardous waste; and it will be the cause of security problems on all levels of civil society
- world wide energy supply therefore is not guaranteed
Having in mind the messages of a document published by the International Energy Agency on May 3
rd 2005, especially that:
- the Energy sector needs USD 60 trillion investments in the next 25 years
- in a business as usual scenario 85% of the worlds incremental energy needs will be met by fossil fuels
- expected energy demand will lead to an increase of carbon emissions by 60%
- nevertheless 1.4 billion people will still not have access to electricity in 2030
- we must extract more from today’s technologies and accelerate tomorrow’s technologies if the promises of technology are to become reality
The International Institute for Peace, IIP has invited a group of experts to a workshop on energy policy in Vienna, Austria on June 14
th 2006, in order to propose ways of energy supply in the future as well as peaceful ways of achieving higher production and fair market regulated distribution. Therefore this working group is referring to the existence of spectacular energy technologies developed by the G-8 countries and others, yet unfortunately not used for the development of new alternatives for civil energy supply but kept secret and exclusive for military and national security purposes. As any private initiatives to contact research in this field is hampered by different government agencies, joint research has to be started either in a “World Energy Agency” or by empowerment of the existing International Energy Agency IEA. Such a step can only be successful if the G-8 and other countries in possession of related technologies are ready to give up their secret competition, otherwise the people of the world as well as the people in their own countries will suffer from the lack of low cost, clean energy.
The independent working group invited by the IIP is convinced that pooled resources and research efforts can lead to new ways of energy supply achieved within a reasonable period of time.
Contribution and proposal for the energy policy considerations of the
G-8 Summit 2006 in St. Petersburgals
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