ASPO-CANADA is the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas in Canada and globally. As such, it exists alongside ASPO organizations in ten other OECD countries, all of which depend heavily on abundant supplies of both oil and gas. In recent years, some have come to use more dramatic language in describing their over-dependency.

ASPO-CANADA, therefore, is a non-partisan, but determined, effort to encourage prudent energy management and the conservation ethic. It will also maintain a consistent resolve to find practical, alternative, renewable energy modalities.

To this end, ASPO-CANADA will act as a clearinghouse and also as a source of information (mostly by electronic means) for the reader/researcher seeking up to date information on global, continental and national trends in oil and gas depletion rates in the face of exploration efforts and discovery realities.

Linkage between CO₂ emissions/climate change and the fast track depletion of oil and gas will be emphasized. So, also, will be the need for embracing the precautionary principle as a basis for public policy in energy in the absence of complete certainty but in the face of consistently accumulating evidence of the unsustainability of current fossil fuel extraction, depletion and consequent emissions.

ASPO (The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas) is a network of non-profit, independent organizations based in many countries with the following shared aims:

• To evaluate the world's endowment of oil and natural gas;
• To determine the probable date and impact of the peak and decline of the world's production of oil and gas;
• To pursue the release of reliable and transparent data on the world's oil and gas reserves/production rates in order to provide a firm basis for policy-making;
• To raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of oil and gas depletion and its consequences;
• To urge governments to adopt strategies to mitigate the effects of oil and gas depletion with new policies aimed to cut waste, improve energy efficiency, and bring in alternative energies;
• To promote the adoption of an Oil Depletion Protocol, whereby consumption is reduced to match a declining supply;
• To warn of the consequences of delay.

FOUNDING COMMITTEE and INCORPORATING BOARD MEMBERS

• The Rt. Hon. Edward Schreyer (Chairman)*
• John Ryan (Vice Chairman)*
• Mark Miller (Sec. Treasurer)*
• Thomas Fraser Homer-Dixon
• Julian Darley

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

• J. David Hughes
• Andrew Nikiforuk
• Paul Sears
• Richard Gilbert
• Larry Hughes

* EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AD INTERIM