Shockwave Scenarios

The shockwave scenario exercize provide a dry run or dress rehearsal for responding to an oil shock.

• Municipal shockwave…  We will convene a scenario exercise involving real-life county or municipal leaders whereby city councilors act to manage their city during an oil shock due to terrorism, geopolitical tensions, and political unrest in oil producing countries.  The simulation can take place over one day or several sessions over a period of weeks.
• Corporate shockwave…  We will convene a scenario exercise involving a company’s executives and management whereby they act to manage their company during an oil shock due to terrorism, geopolitical tensions, and political unrest in oil producing countries.  The simulation can take place over one day or several sessions over a period of weeks.

Energy Preparedness Workshops for Municipalities and Enterprises

Workshops to jump start the energy preparedness process tailored to the needs of the organization.

Executive and Staff Briefings

Tailored briefings delivered by a professional speaker on energy preparedness, peak oil, and energy pricing.

Getting Started with a Resolution Workshop

Tailored workshop for helping a community group or municipality get a resolution passed.

Vulnerability Assessment

An energy vulnerability assessment analyzes the impact of energy price escalation (and optionally supply disruption) scenarios on a municipality's ability to provide key services including water, sewer, fire & emergency, police, and trash collection as well as on the amount of sales tax revenues collected. It may also examine the sourcing of food, water, electricity, fuels, and other essentials and the extent to which their delivery might be vulnerable to oil supply disruptions. This screening level assessment is designed to be quick and provide guidance on next steps for mitigating risks.

Contingency Planning

Energy price spikes and supply disruptions could prevent your municipality from continuing normal operations.  The municipality has a responsibility to recover in the minimum amount of time, with minimum disruption and at minimum cost. This requires careful preparation and planning.

Energy Contingency Planning includes these key steps:

• Identification of Energy Emergency Response Stages
• Communication structure to alert the public
• Rules concerning energy usage and appropriate methods for enforcing such rules for each of the energy emergency response stages

Risk Management

Risk management is the decision-making process involving considerations of political, social, economic and engineering factors with relevant risk assessments relating to a potential hazard so as to develop, analyse and compare mitigation options and to select the optimal mitigation response for safety from that hazard. Essentially risk management is the combination of three steps: risk evaluation; risk mitigation; and risk monitoring.  We use a decision analystic framework for risk analysis.