Any infrastructure plans that are based on oil dependency should be scrapped and replaced with sustainable alternatives.
In the face of falling oil supplies and rising prices PertoSA’s planned oil refinery will run into trouble.
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/ 3 September 2010
Peak oil demands a new liquid fuel strategy, writes <b>Jeremy Wakeford</b>.
"It has always been a tradition of the Bar for more senior members to have an open-door approach to our junior members," says Advocates Group 21 Transformation chairperson Robbie Stockwell. "Our group has taken this tradition a step further by introducing … a system in terms of which we are able to mentor our junior members."
"Legal input starts almost from the word go in most mergers and acquisitions these days," says Alan Keep, of Bowman Gilfillan. He managed the legal team from Bowman that represented Standard Bank in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China acquisition of 20% stock at the end of last year.
Let us venture into a political no-go zone and say that, at some point in the not too distant future, there is a bitter pill that we will need to swallow — and we are getting just a foretaste with the current energy crisis. In a nutshell, our global growth-based economic model is fundamentally unsustainable.