Re: Terran Poverty Relief Assocation (TPRA)
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 1:49 am
December 4311
Work with the Third World, TPRA asks UPES
The TPRA has written to the newly-formed Union of the Petroleum Exporting States (UPES) asking them to "give the developing countries of the third world a representative at the table" of the organisation's ruling Board of Ministers. TPRA Chief Execute Barbara Hoenigsberg, who wrote the letter, argued that "the development of the economies of the third world economies should be at the heart of UPES's agenda", warning that "these nations will be unable to realise their potential unless they have access to adequate supplies of oil at reasonable prices". She also urged UPES to assist third world nations to explore and develop their own oil resources, but insisted that "this must be done in a socially and ecologically responsible way, which is in the interests of the peoples of those countries, and more broadly, in the interests of Terra".
Hoenigsberg later commented "long-term, for environmental sustainability, Terra needs to wean itself off fossil fuels and develop renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar power" but that "for the short to medium-term, heavy dependence on fossil fuels is probably a fact of life, and the aim has to be to manage this situation in the fairest and least harmful way possible".
Work with the Third World, TPRA asks UPES
The TPRA has written to the newly-formed Union of the Petroleum Exporting States (UPES) asking them to "give the developing countries of the third world a representative at the table" of the organisation's ruling Board of Ministers. TPRA Chief Execute Barbara Hoenigsberg, who wrote the letter, argued that "the development of the economies of the third world economies should be at the heart of UPES's agenda", warning that "these nations will be unable to realise their potential unless they have access to adequate supplies of oil at reasonable prices". She also urged UPES to assist third world nations to explore and develop their own oil resources, but insisted that "this must be done in a socially and ecologically responsible way, which is in the interests of the peoples of those countries, and more broadly, in the interests of Terra".
Hoenigsberg later commented "long-term, for environmental sustainability, Terra needs to wean itself off fossil fuels and develop renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar power" but that "for the short to medium-term, heavy dependence on fossil fuels is probably a fact of life, and the aim has to be to manage this situation in the fairest and least harmful way possible".