Peak Oil & The Media: How Bad Can the News Get?

More importantly, are we getting the full story?
A panel discussion, “Peak Oil & Media: How Bad Can the News Get?”, will be held to discuss how and what the media is — and is not — reporting on the imminent global energy shortage that will change our lives and what our city can do to prepare.
Panelists include some of Metro Vancouver’s top journalists

  • Barbara Yaffe from the Vancouver Sun
  • Charlie Smith from The Georgia Straight
  • Rex Weyler from the Tyee and Vancouver Peak Oil Executive
  • Sara Robinson from Blog For Our Future

Saturday July 12, 2008
7:00 – 10:00 PM
BCIT Downtown Campus
Conference room 200/282/284
555 Seymour St
Vancouver, BC (a few blocks up from Waterfront station)
Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door.
For speaker bios and purchasing advance tickets, purchase online through the Vancouver Peak OiI Executive (VPOE) website.
VPOE is a small working group set up within Vancouver Peak Oil specifically to network with government, NGO’s, foundations, citizens’ groups and the media, so as to build awareness of the potential effects on the metro Vancouver area of an imminent shortage of oil and other critical natural resources. This working group is currently in the planning stages of a Vancouver Peak Oil Task Force, as well as a series of evening panels featuring representatives from local media, government, NGO’s and the business community to discuss how to get our region ready for Peak Oil.


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