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The
Rimini Protocol (also called
Uppsala Protocol) is a proposal made by the
geologist Colin Campbell in 2003. It is intended to stabilise
oil prices and minimize the effects of
peak oil.
To achieve this, producing countries wouldn't produce oil in excess of their present national depletion rate: for example, roughly speaking, the oil burnt, expended or exported must equal the oil produced or imported. Furthermore, it would be required that importing nations stabilize their imports at existing levels. This would have the effect of keeping world prices in reasonable relationship to actual production costs and let
Third World countries afford their oil imports.
Campbell also stresses the need for outdated principles of economic growth to be surpassed. He states: "the economic fundamentalists ... have these really outdated economic principles inherited from the Industrial Revolution, when the world was indeed large and the scope for Man’s activities were at that time more or less infinite. ... these economic principles ... are very short term in their nature ... these people who say that there can be no shortage in an open market and their battle cry is liberalize markets - these people have become really the enemy ..."
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). As such, Campbell strongly criticises those who accelerate the "peak oil" crisis, rather than taking action to curtail it as he recommends.
Campbell substantiates the prediction of the urgent forthcoming "peak oil" crisis by making reference to
Saudi Arabia, a nation covering a geographic region wherein there's a huge concentration of oil. Campbell hypothesises: "I think even the Sauds would always develop the larger ones first. So the biggest field in the world is
Ghawar, with 80 billion in it perhaps, you step outside from this trend to
Safaniya with 35 perhaps,
Hanifah about 12 and
Shaybah 15, and you come on down. If they develop the big ones first, which one must assume they did, you're down to well, still nice oilfields but of a modest scale, and so I suppose the other discoveries they made have made are smaller by orders of magnitude ... it’s quite evident that this doesn’t come close to the past."
Support for the Rimini Protocol has even been found in retired politicians. In regard thereto, Campbell proclaims: "And then ... you've the people I call the Renegades. These are senior politicians who are now out of office and being freed from the system, are able to tell the truth. And some of them do."
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