Earlier in the month I was set on course to ranting about the water crisis as my top October issue in the media, especially seeing as MEETI will be launching a Waste Water Management programme in 2010. But that was before I met a headline statement in the past week that said ‘The Bakken strike is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay.’ This claim went on to say ‘… It [the Bakken oil find] has the potential to drastically reduce America's dependence on foreign oil’. Now I trust that this catches your attention as it sure did mine. I have decided that this is going to be our October conversation piece.
MEETI joins South Africans and all stakeholders of the country’s energy sector to mourn the passing of Mr. Cobus Schmidt, a dedicated member of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Energy.
Things are heating up as the 15th COP (Conference Of Parties) negotiations on climate action, aimed at delivering the next generation climate change intervention instrument approach. In the midst of all the build up MEETI is delighted to announce its signing of The Copenhagen Communiqué.
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The Minerals and Energy Education and Training Institute (MEETI) starts the year by hosting a seminar on Carbon Taxing versus Cap & Trade. This is done with the view of keeping the Copenhagen COP 15 affair alive for South African stakeholders when the media hype seems to have abated. There is reason to suspect that between the year end festivities and the euphoria and anticipation round the 2010 world cup, life threatening anthropogenic global warming issues that culminated in world drama in Copenhagen, may have lost their mid December 2009 sting. The CO2 seminar is scheduled for 27th of January 2010
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